Display product excerpt on cart page in Woocommerce

Question

I'm struggling to modify the cart page in woocommerce. I have the cart.php file in my theme folder, and I want to add some information about the products in that page.

I want to add two hooks:

• woocommerce_template_single_excerpt
• woocommerce_template_single_meta

But I'm not sure how to do it. I'm trying to add those hooks in some versions of the next basic code:

add_action( 'woocommerce_before_cart_contents','matusevitch_cart_page_info' );
function matusevitch_cart_page_info(){
    // Your code
}

now in the function I tried either just to echo the hook, or to add it like this:

do_action( 'woocommerce_before_cart_contents','woocommerce_template_single_meta' );

I tried as well some solutions in other threads I checked before, but non of this works.

How can I display product excerpt for items on cart page?

Answer 1

This can simply be done this way for example:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_cart_item_name', 'add_excerpt_in_cart_item_name', 10, 3 );
function add_excerpt_in_cart_item_name( $item_name,  $cart_item,  $cart_item_key ){
    $excerpt = wp_strip_all_tags( get_the_excerpt($cart_item['product_id']), true );
    $style = ' style="font-size:14px; line-height:normal;"';
    $excerpt_html = '<br>
        <p name="short-description"'.$style.'>'.$excerpt.'</p>';

    return $item_name . $excerpt_html;
}

This code goes in function.php file of your active child theme (or theme) or also in any plugin file.

Tested and works

Answer 2

Try this one,

override the following page template of woocommerce,

woocommerce/cart/cart.php in your theme

you will find a table HTML/code in it.

<th class="product-short-description"><?php _e('Short Description', 'woocommerce'); ?></th>
//add this code in to <thead>..</thead>
<td class="product-short-description" data-title="<?php esc_attr_e('Product Excerpt', 'woocommerce'); ?>">
<?php
    echo get_the_excerpt($product_id);
?>
</td>
//add this code in to <tbody>..</tbody>

Hope this will helps you.