title: Woocommerce: Display Product Variation Description on order page
body: <p>I am trying to display the <strong>product variation description</strong> in the order detail page and in the order email. Following this example <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39045038/woocommerce-display-product-variation-description-on-cart-page">Woocommerce: Display Product Variation Description on Cart page</a> it worked perfectly for the cart and also for the checkout. But it seems i can't find the right way of calling it for the order page.</p>
  
  <p>This   </p>
  
  <pre><code>$item = $cart_item['data'];
  if(!empty($item) &amp;&amp; $item-&gt;is_type( 'variation' ) ){
      echo '&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;' . $item-&gt;get_variation_description() }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>is not working, as it calls for the cart item data ..
  And the get_post_meta as suggested here <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41020948/woocommerce-displaying-variable-description-after-variable-price/41026350#41026350">WooCommerce displaying variable description after variable price</a> is not working either. </p>
  
  <pre><code>$_variable_description = get_post_meta( $variation-&gt;id , '_variation_description', true );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried to place it in either the <strong>order-details-item.php</strong> and the <strong>class-wc-order-item-meta.php</strong>, and of course the <strong>email-order-details.php</strong></p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions? Thanks!</p>