WooCommerce One Page Checkout does not display attributes or variations

Question

WordPress > WooCommerce > One Page Checkout

On a single product with One Page Checkout enabled, I have 3 variations of an attribute:

When a variation is selected and Added to the Order, the One Page Checkout displays the Product Name, but does not include the variation:

The variations ARE displayed in the full shopping cart but are not when using One Page. When a customer is ordering multiple variations, this may be confusing for them.

I'd simply like to display the variation the customer has chosen alongside the Product Name using One Page Checkout.

Answer 1

In WooCommerce 2.x, the variation attributes were displayed in the cart as meta data, however in WooCommerce 3.x they are included in the product name. But this requires a change to any cart customization in a plugin or theme to use the new WC_Product method get_name() instead of get_title().

If this is a third party plugin or theme, ideally you should find out if a new version is available that is fully compatible with WooCommerce 3.x and addresses the issue. But as a workaround, assuming the plugin/theme uses the filter hook woocommerce_cart_item_name, you can add the following to your theme's functions.php (if you are using a third party theme, you should create a child theme so that you don't lose your changes on updating it):

add_filter(
  'woocommerce_cart_item_name',
  function($name, $cart_item, $cart_item_key) {
    $product = apply_filters(
      'woocommerce_cart_item_product',
      $cart_item['data'],
      $cart_item,
      $cart_item_key
    );
    if (method_exists($product, 'get_name')) {
      // WooCommerce 3.x
      $is_link = substr($name, 0, 3) === '<a ';
      $name = $product->get_name();
      if ($is_link) {
        $name = sprintf(
          '<a href="%s">%s</a>',
          esc_url($product->get_permalink($cart_item)),
          $name
        );
      }
    }
    return $name;
  },
  50, 3
);