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# How to remove the short description field in WooCommerce? (ok)

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C:\xampp\htdocs\jp1\wp-content\themes\muum-child\functions.php

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remove_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'woocommerce_template_single_excerpt', 20);
```

## How to remove the short description field in WooCommerce?

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I a custom them for woocommerce with a design that does not utilize the “Product Short Description”. Removing that description from displaying on the page was easy enough using:

| 1 | `remove_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'woocommerce_template_single_excerpt', 20);` |
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However, I cannot seem to find any way to remove the field/panel itself from showing to the admin on the product editing pages. I’m using woocommerce 2.0. Thanks\![![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/950c660387beaf911e356713f0ddade9?s=30\&d=\&r=G) Dennis Morris ](https://www.tmdhosting.com/kb/member/dennis-morris/)Asked on October 24, 2015 in [WordPress.](https://www.tmdhosting.com/kb/category/wordpress/)

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You can remove the Short Description field from the WooCommerce admin panel via PHP:

| 123456 | `function` `remove_short_description() {` `remove_meta_box( 'postexcerpt', 'product', 'normal');` `}add_action('add_meta_boxes', 'remove_short_description', 999);` |
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