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Get attribute text field on front-end product page?

I’m looking to retrieve the value of an attribut with the ID “size_clamp” and show it on the short and long description of my product. I have tried to add the following code directly in the short description area on the back-end but no luck :

  • “This clamp has an exterior size <?php echo $_product->getAttributeText("size_clamp"); ?> for clamping on the tube”…

This gives me an error on the front end. I was hopping for the following result :

  • “This clamp has an exterior size 27mm for clamping on the tube”

Here is why i’m looking for this :

  • Avoid repetitive manual input in the text for thousand products, it’s the same clamps with different sizes. I want to have a default text with those shortcode and just paste it in both short and long description.
  • Seo reason, i was thinking to create an attribut called “seo_text” that is different per store view which would change based on the store view. This could avoid having duplicate content on google.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards,
Marc