Markdown doesn't work for WooCommerce short product descriptions

[ericelliott]

Summary

The Jetpack markdown feature doesn't work for WooCommerce short product descriptions.

Steps to reproduce

• Activate jetpack and the Markdown extension
• Create a WooCommerce product
• Use Markdown syntax for both the short and long product descriptions
• Save the product

Expected behavior

The Markdown descriptions should be transformed into HTML for display.

Actual behavior

• The short description is not converted.
• The long description is converted.

Screenshot

[kraftbj]

I'm unsure if this is a problem on our end, WooTheme's end, or neither. I'm not familiar enough with WC yet to be sure. Notably, I'm not sure what actually generates the short description and if it is something that Jetpack ever expected to be markdown'd. Currently, we look for the post content in supported post types (WC products having declared support for markdown in their plugin).

It appears the short description is based on the excerpt.

If so, the real request is to enable Markdown conversion on the excerpt for support post types; however, by default, the_excerpt strips down to 55 words with no HTML (unless a plugin rebuilds it, which is my initial thought on what WC does). In other words, the average WordPress install wouldn't support non-plain-text excerpts in either case.

Based on #155 (comment), I think this is something that could be raised on WooCommerce's GitHub as an improvement if they'd like to offer Markdown support for short descriptions.

Leaving it open for a second set of eyes, but I think this is a wontfix punting to WooCommerce.

@mattwiebe or @mikejolley, any thoughts?

[ericelliott]

It appears the short description is based on the excerpt.

WooCommerce lets you use anything you want in the short description. Screenshot:

Note that I'm using HTML here instead of Markdown to work around this bug. The rest of my site content uses Markdown.

[claudiosanches]

Done woocommerce/woocommerce@eea7255

[ericelliott]

Thanks @claudiosmweb. That was quick! =)