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Category Description for WooCommerce allows WooCommerce store owners to customize how product category descriptions are displayed. 
With advanced options for positioning and formatting, you can better showcase your products and improve SEO optimization.
Key Features: 
– Add custom descriptions for each product category. 
– Position descriptions: 
 – Above products (full text or excerpt). 
 – Below products. 
 – Combine positions with full and excerpt views. 
– Use a “Load More” button to expand excerpted descriptions. 
– Seamless integration with block-based (FSE) and classic themes. 
– Avoid duplicate content with customizable display options. 
– Edit descriptions easily with the WordPress editor. 
– Use the <code>[cdfwsp_split]</code> marker to define an exact split point in the description, overriding the word limit. 
– Use the <code>[cdfwsp_category_description]</code> shortcode to display descriptions anywhere: page builders, custom templates, or theme files.
Why Choose This Plugin? 
Enhance user experience and SEO by having full control over the display of your WooCommerce product category descriptions. 
This plugin is lightweight, easy to use, and works seamlessly with most WordPress themes.
<h3>Shortcode Reference</h3>
<code>[cdfwsp_category_description]</code>
Display a product category description anywhere on your site — page builders, custom templates, or theme files. Works independently of the admin Display Option setting.
<h4>Attributes</h4>
part (default: <code>full</code>)
Controls which part of the description to output:
<ul>
<li><code>full</code> — complete description (<code>[cdfwsp_split]</code> marker stripped from output).</li>
<li><code>excerpt</code> — excerpt part only (before the split point or word limit).</li>
<li><code>rest</code> — remainder part only (after the split point). Renders with a targetable anchor <code>id</code> for use with <code>excerpt_anchor</code>.</li>
<li><code>excerpt_toggle</code> — excerpt with a Load More button that reveals the full description. JavaScript is loaded automatically.</li>
<li><code>excerpt_anchor</code> — excerpt with an anchor link pointing to a <code>part="rest"</code> shortcode placed elsewhere on the page. No JavaScript required.</li>
</ul>
id (optional)
Product category ID. Takes priority over <code>slug</code>.
slug (optional)
Product category slug. Used when <code>id</code> is not set.
If neither <code>id</code> nor <code>slug</code> is provided, the shortcode auto-detects the category from the current archive page.
<h4>Examples</h4>
Display the full description on the current archive page:
<pre><code>[cdfwsp_category_description]
</code></pre>
Excerpt with a Load More button on the current archive page:
<pre><code>[cdfwsp_category_description part="excerpt_toggle"]
</code></pre>
Excerpt with a Load More button for a specific category:
<pre><code>[cdfwsp_category_description part="excerpt_toggle" slug="clothing"]
</code></pre>
Split view — excerpt above products, full text below (no JavaScript):
<pre><code>[cdfwsp_category_description part="excerpt_anchor"] (place above products)
[cdfwsp_category_description part="rest"] (place below products)<h3>Support</h3>
</code></pre>
If you have any questions, issues, or suggestions, please post them on the WordPress.org support forum.

Category Description for WooCommerce

Customize WooCommerce category descriptions with flexible display and formatting options to improve product visibility and boost SEO performance.

Mats Westholm

This plugin lets the user write a separate description for each post, page, front page or custom post type post which is added as a meta description to the html head.
The individual description for a post or page is typed and edited in a separate text field just below the text field for editing the post text.
You can also add meta description to category, tag and custom taxonomy archive as well as front page.
To add description to a category, go to Dashboard > Posts > Categories. Select a category in the table to the wright or create a new category. Type the description in the text field Description, Weather or not this description will be viewed for visitors on the site is up to each theme. The Easy WP Meta Description plugin will add the description as meta information in the html head.
Descriptions for tag and custom taxonomies are edited in similar fashion.
To edit a front page description you would go to Dashboard > Settings > General and edit Front page meta description. 
If you use a static page as Front page the static page Meta description will be used and Front page meta description at general setting will now show.
This plugin relies on the wp_head() action hook. It will only work if the theme uses it. Most themes do.
When deleted uninstall script runs which deletes all changes in the database perfomed by the plugin. 
If you dont want to delete your descriptions and other settings only deactivate and dont delete.
Tested with Gutenberg.

Easy WP Meta Description


Unlike the SEO plugins that are available, this plugin is lightweight and all that is needed.


All that is needed

Simple and easy to use wordpress plugin to add the meta description tag in html head

Category Description for WooCommerce vs Easy WP Meta Description