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Insert WooCommerce Product Short Description Anywhere via Shortcode

Updated 3 years ago
by Dave Warfel

If you're using WooCommerce to sell your LearnDash courses, you might be using the "Short Description" field to describe your WooCommerce products. Instead of writing another short description for your courses, you can insert the WooCommerce short description on your course pages (or anywhere on your site). You then only have to update the short description once, in one place, for the change to appear everywhere.

Use the following PHP snippet to create a WooCommerce short description shortcode:

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