Woocommerce: Display Also Product Variation Description on Cart Items

WooCommerce: Display also product variation description on cart items

Updated for WooCommerce version 3 and above

Since WooCommerce 3, get_variation_description() is now deprecated and replaced by get_description() WC_Product method.

To get your product item variation description (filtering variation product type condition), you can use the following hooked function instead:

// Cart page (and mini cart)
add_filter( 'woocommerce_cart_item_name', 'cart_item_product_description', 20, 3);
function cart_item_product_description( $item_name, $cart_item, $cart_item_key ) {
    if ( ! is_checkout() ) {
        if( $cart_item['variation_id'] > 0 ) {
            $description = $cart_item['data']->get_description(); // variation description
        } else {
            $description = $cart_item['data']->get_short_description(); // product short description (for others)
        }

        if ( ! empty($description) ) {
            return $item_name . '<br><div class="description">
                <strong>' . __( 'Description', 'woocommerce' ) . '</strong>: '. $description . '
            </div>';
        }
    }
    return $item_name;
}

// Checkout page
add_filter( 'woocommerce_checkout_cart_item_quantity', 'cart_item_checkout_product_description', 20, 3);
function cart_item_checkout_product_description( $item_quantity, $cart_item, $cart_item_key ) {
    if( $cart_item['variation_id'] > 0 ) {
        $description = $cart_item['data']->get_description(); // variation description
    } else {
        $description = $cart_item['data']->get_short_description(); // product short description (for others)
    }

    if ( ! empty($description) ) {
        return $item_quantity . '<br><div class="description">
            <strong>' . __( 'Description', 'woocommerce' ) . '</strong>: '. $description . '
        </div>';
    }

    return $item_quantity;
}

Now the description is just displayed between the title and the variation attributes values (if there is any).

Code goes in functions.php file of the active child theme (or active theme). Tested and works.

Display product variation description or product short description based on product type in WooCommerce checkout

To display product variation description instead of product short description for variable products, you can use:

// Display on cart & checkout pages
function filter_woocommerce_get_item_data( $item_data, $cart_item ) {   
    // Compare
    if ( $cart_item['data']->get_type() == 'variation' ) {
        // Get the variable product description
        $description = $cart_item['data']->get_description();
    } else {    
        // Get product excerpt
        $description = get_the_excerpt( $cart_item['product_id'] );
    }       
        
    // Isset & NOT empty
    if ( isset ( $description ) && ! empty( $description ) ) {
        $item_data[] = array(
            'key'     => __( 'Description', 'woocommerce' ),
            'value'   => $description,
            'display' => $description,
        );
    }
    
    return $item_data;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_get_item_data', 'filter_woocommerce_get_item_data', 10, 2 );

Display product (variation) description in a new line on WooCommerce order received page and emails

To display the $decription on a new line, you can use the woocommerce_order_item_meta_start action hook versus woocommerce_order_item_name filter hook.

So you get:

function action_woocommerce_order_item_meta_start( $item_id, $item, $order, $plain_text ) {
    // Get product
    $product = $item->get_product();

    // Variation description
    if ( $item['variation_id'] > 0 ) {
        $description = $product->get_description();
    } else {
        // Product short description (for others)
        $description = $product->get_short_description();
    }
    
    echo '<div>' . $description . '</div>';
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_order_item_meta_start', 'action_woocommerce_order_item_meta_start', 10, 4 );

Woocommerce: Display variation name in cart, order confirmation, and order email

Through the article here, I found I was able to achieve what I wanted with a very simple filter:

add_filter('woocommerce_add_cart_item_data','my_add_item_data',10,3);

function my_add_item_data($cart_item_data, $product_id, $variation_id)
{
if(isset($_REQUEST['size']))
{
$cart_item_data['size'] = sanitize_text_field($_REQUEST['size']);
}

return $cart_item_data;
}

This has added the variation info to cart, checkout confirmation, and the email. So simple!

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