Reusable Product Description for WooCommerce
Avoid redundant product descriptions! Show category or attribute descriptions in your product main description or show them in extra tabs.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 6
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 10 May 2020
- Added
- May 2016
- Requires WP
- 4.4.0
- Tested up to
- WP 5.4.21
- Requires PHP
- 5.6
- Downloads
- 7,880
Our analysis
AI-assistedReusable Product Description for WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin designed to help you manage product descriptions efficiently. It allows you to create reusable descriptions for product categories and attributes, which can be displayed dynamically on your WooCommerce products. This reduces the need to rewrite information for similar products, streamlining the process of adding descriptions.
The plugin creates additional fields for each product category and attribute taxonomy, enabling you to add specific information that can be shown in separate tabs or integrated into the main product description. You can also use HTML, shortcodes, and placeholders to customise the displayed content based on product properties and attributes.
Best for: This plugin suits WooCommerce store owners looking to simplify product description management.
What it does well
- ✓Allows reuse of product descriptions across categories and attributes
- ✓Displays additional information in separate tabs
- ✓Supports HTML and shortcodes in descriptions
- ✓Includes placeholders for dynamic product information
- ✓Customisable tab titles and display order
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on support and updates
- •Directory score indicates potential issues
Verdict
Reusable Product Description for WooCommerce offers a practical solution for managing product descriptions, though its directory score suggests users should proceed with caution.
From the developer
mjke87's own description of Reusable Product Description for WooCommerce, lightly tidied.
This plugin allows you to reuse descriptions and dynamically display them on your products. Add pieces of descriptions to your categories and product attributes, which then are added to your product description or displayed as separate tabs. This allows you to reuse any descriptions that are specific to certain attributes or categories without rewriting all information for every applicable product again and again.
The plugin creates a new field for each product category and attribute taxonomy that can be used to add and display additional information related to a specific category or attribute.
The extra information will be displayed in a separate tab by default with the product attribute taxonomy name as the tab title. The content of the tab will show all applicable attribute tab descriptions. The extra field lets you also use HTML, shortcodes and special placeholders that are replaced with product information.
Features
- Display WooCommerce product category and attribute information in a separate tab or in the product detail
- Control display type for each WooCommerce attribute taxonomy
- Swap between default attribute description field or use the default plugin field
- Control the tab order using priority values for each product taxonomy
- Set an alternative tab title via attribute settings
- Support for placeholders within the description (see below) that are replaced with product data
Placeholders
Product properties
The {product:property} placeholder can be used to replace certain parts of the text with a product property:
{product:name}: get the product name{product:sku}: get the product SKU{product:weight}: get the product weight{product:height}: get the product height{product:width}: get the product width{product:length}: get the product length
Additionally, it is possible to truncate the resulting string before or after a given substring with the syntax {product:property:string}. For example:
{product:name:-}would display the product name but cut of everything after-{product:name::-}would display the product name but cut of everything before-
If both cases the - character is also removed.
Product attributes
The {attribute:taxonomy} placeholder can be used to replace certain parts of the text with a product attribute. Replace the taxonomy part in the placeholder with any product attribute that you wish (slug).
For example, if you have an attribute color, you could use the following placeholder to insert the color of the product into the text: {attribute:color}. If more than one color is attached to the product, they are listed and separated by a comma.
It is therefore also possible to select only one term by using the syntax {attribute:taxonomy:index}. Replace the index part with a number. For example {attribute:color:1} will show the first color of the product.
Product meta data
The {meta:key} placeholder can be used to replace parts of the text with product meta data. Replace the key part in the placeholder with any meta data from the database.
Product meta data can also be trimmed just the like the product properties.