[Feature suggestion] Woo Category Descriptions on shop homepage about astra HOT 9 CLOSED

Is there a PHP-snippet to do this in the meantime (until hopefully, one day Astra implements this)?

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Update: Do not use this script, it does not look good on mobile.

I got this back from support just now:

There is no such option is available to show the category description on the shop page.

You can add following code snippet to your child theme's functions.php file to add Category Description to the shop page.

We are going to release the theme update today itself after updating the theme the following code snippet doesn't require any style. As of now if you add this code snippet then you might need to style this description as per your requirement.

add_action( 'wp', 'single_product_variable_loggedin_user' );
function single_product_variable_loggedin_user() {
add_action( 'woocommerce_after_subcategory', 'astra_product_archive_description' );
}

/**
* Show Category Description on shop page
*
* @param object $category     Category object
*/
function astra_product_archive_description( $category ){

$cat_id=$category->term_id;
$prod_term = get_term($cat_id,'product_cat');
$description = $prod_term->description;
echo '<div class="ast-woo-shop-product-description"><p>'.$description.'</p></div>';
}

Not sure if I'm reading this correctly, but it seems this is coming to the theme today by default.

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In the upcoming update we will be fixing the CSS bug that is making the category/subcategory title go below the description in your case - https://cl.ly/pPiD

You will still have to add this php snippet to display this description though.

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Thank you for your reply @Nikschavan. Just curious, why not included this in Astra Core? It seems like such an obvious feature to include.

Cheers

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My current thoughts are -

• Since this has been off from the initial design, Turning it on automatically in an update is a backward compatibility breakage. People using categories on their sites with current layout will automatically start seeing the descriptions in their completed websites.
• This should come as an option which will be by default off, but right now there does not seem to be other settings specifically for the archives.

I have added this to our list to consider the best approach for this.

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Ok, thank you @Nikschavan I'll wait for the update before proceeding.

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Astra Pro v1.2.0 did update fix this CSS breakage when the description is added using the filter so you can use this filter on your site.

We do have few more improvements to the category display on the shop page which will provide more style options in future updates of Astra Pro.

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Thank you @Nikschavan I've just tried it out and it works now. Cheers.

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@Nikschavan It works great on our corporate site too (ignore the design, still working on it)

One question though: For products, there is this awesome shadow hover effect. But not for categories? How do I get them the same (for consistency).

Cheers

Ps. no hurry, it's not a bug, just weird.

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