1. About Shopify Product Description Element
1.1. What is Shopify Product Description?
Shopify Product Description element is designed to present the description of your Shopify products on your page to increase your conversion rate. You can use the Product Description element to promote your products on any non-product page or use it on a product page.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You can not edit the Product description in PageFly editor. To edit the text and content in the description, please access Shopify admin > Product to edit it.
1.2. Access the Product Description Element
- Step 1: Click on the 2nd icon in the Element Catalog which is the Add Shopify element function
- Step 2: Click on the Product Description element in the dropdown menu
- Step 3: Drag and drop the element into the page editor and then start using it.
Product Description element comes with two common variations but we will continue to add more variations to help you save time.
1.3. Special Note
You can search for this element by using the search function instead of finding it in the sidebar.
Using this element on a Product page type will result in two product elements on your page; the Shopify product element is removable with a custom code that you can get by contacting us on live support since the code is different depending on the store’s current theme.
2. Product Description Element Configuration
Product Description element comes with plenty of parameters allowing you to fine-tune content appearance for the best possible conversion rate.
Select the element in the layout to see its parameters.
When you drag and drop the Product Description element into the editor page, there are 2 choices for the Product Source option for you to choose from such as:
- Auto
- Custom Product
Note that if you are in the Product Page and use the Product Price element, then you can choose the Product Source option. However, if you are in a Regular Page, this function is not available!
If you choose Auto, the product assigned for this product page will be displayed in the page editor. The Auto option is set default when you use the Product Price element.
The parameters in the General and Styling tabs are specific for this element. Read about them in this article.
2.1. General Configuration | |
| Product Source with 2 options as above: Auto and Custom Product. | Auto
Custom
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| Description display: There are 2 options for you to display the description such as Full and Compact |
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| Compact | |
| Compact Description Length (words): Adjust the number of words to be displayed in the description. |  |
| Show “More” Link: enable this option to show the full description by the following settings |  |
| “More” Text: input the text to show more description. This means that when customers click on that text, then the description will be shown fully. “Less” Text: input the text to show less description. This means that when customers click on that text, then the description will be back to the beginning which is a part of the description. |  |
You can get further information about ATTRIBUTES, VISIBILITY, ANIMATION parameters here
2.2. Styling Configuration
You can check more information about the PageFly Element Styling.
3. Frequently Asked Questions
3.1. What is Product Description?
Product Description describes your product as it’s written copy, which provides essential information about an online product or service.
3.2. Different between Product Description, Product Title and Product Details?
The product title is a product’s title, Product Description describes the products and product details contain both of them, along with many other options, including size, options, colors and check-out process…
3.3. Why is product description important?
The Product Description plays important role for SEO Optimization, as this is where SEOers can insert keywords relevant to the products. The product description should also provide all information which customers must know before deciding to buy that product. The product description should be straight forwards, concise and loads with full information.
