How to Search for WooCommerce Products Missing Description

Let’s learn how to search for WooCommerce products missing descriptions. You’ll see how to find all products with empty product description or short description.

Having products missing descriptions in WooCommerce can cause big problems:

• Search engines may not show products without descriptions, leading to fewer visitors.
• Customers need descriptions to understand what they are buying, and if the information is missing, they might leave without purchasing.
• Marketplaces and ads, like Google Shopping or Facebook Ads, may also reject products without descriptions.
• Store owners often need to find these products to update them in bulk and improve their catalog.
• Adding good descriptions can also help increase sales by making products more attractive to buyers.

That’s why we will show you how to filter all WooCommerce products that have no description or short description, using the WP Sheet Editor – WooCommerce Products plugin.

This plugin allows you to view and manage your WooCommerce products in a spreadsheet interface that contains advanced search, bulk edit, export, and import tools.

After installing the plugin and activating the license on your WordPress site, you need to follow the steps in the sections below to search for products without description.

As you will notice, WooCommerce uses two types of product descriptions:

• The long description “Content” is displayed below the product on the product page.
• The short description is displayed next to the product photo.

Therefore, we will show you both searches.

First, open the products spreadsheet by going to WP Sheet Editor > Edit products. You’ll see all your WooCommerce products displayed in the spreadsheet.

Now you need to open the Search tool in order to find products with empty description or short description.

Option 1: Search for products missing description (content)

First, let’s see how to search for WooCommerce products with empty content (product long description).

After opening the Search tool, you need to select the following values:

• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox and select these values:
  • Field: Content
  • Operator: =
  • Value: Leave this field empty.
• Click on Run search.

Once you run the search, you’ll see all the products that have no content or product description displayed in the spreadsheet.

Option 2: Search for products missing short description

Now we will see how to filter all WooCommerce products with empty short description.

After opening the Search tool, you need to select the following values:

• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox and select these values:
  • Field: Short description
  • Operator: =
  • Value: Leave this field empty.
• Click on Run search.

Once you run the search, you’ll see all the products that have no short description displayed in the spreadsheet.

With WP Sheet Editor, searching for WooCommerce products missing description or short description is really simple. You don’t need to check products one by one. Just open the Search tool, select the necessary values, and the products that match the search terms will be displayed in the spreadsheet.

And this is not the only way to filter your products, you can search for products using any field as a search filter, as well as bulk edit any field on hundreds of products, export, and import products.

Want to bulk edit product descriptions?

You can now generate product descriptions or short descriptions with AI on WordPress. Just read this tutorial.

Here are other related tutorials:

• Bulk edit product descriptions
• Add message to product descriptions

WP Sheet Editor is your best companion to bulk manage your WooCommerce products.