Woocommerce reverse description and short description single product pages

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1. You could just swap the excerpt and the main content in the backend…. save the content in the excerpt box and vice versa. Otherwise, you need to override 2 WooCommerce templates and reverse the content with the excerpt.

   In your theme, add this as woocommerce/single-product/short-description.php. post_excerpt is replaced with post_content.

   <?php
   /**
    * Single product short description
    *
    * @author      WooThemes
    * @package     WooCommerce/Templates
    * @version     1.6.4
    */
   
   if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
       exit; // Exit if accessed directly
   }
   
   global $post;
   
   if ( ! $post->post_content ) {
       return;
   }
   
   ?>
   <div itemprop="description">
       <?php the_content() ?>
   </div>
   

   and this as woocommerce/single-product/tabs/description.php:

   <?php
   /**
    * Description tab
    *
    * @author      WooThemes
    * @package     WooCommerce/Templates
    * @version     2.0.0
    */
   
   if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
       exit; // Exit if accessed directly
   }
   
   global $post;
   
   $heading = esc_html( apply_filters( 'woocommerce_product_description_heading', __( 'Product Description', 'woocommerce' ) ) );
   
   ?>
   
   <?php if ( $heading ): ?>
     <h2><?php echo $heading; ?></h2>
   <?php endif; ?>
   
   <?php echo apply_filters( 'woocommerce_short_description', $post->post_excerpt ) ?>
   

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2. Basically, <?php the_content(); ?> echoes the full description, while <?php the_excerpt(); ?> echoes the short description.

   In your layout, just switch them to echo whatever you want. Be sure too that both textareas (content/excerpt) in your product post contain some text.

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