Both tests confirmed it was returning the term ID. The first returned 16 and the second returned:
stdClass Object ( [term_id] => 16 [name] => Clothing [slug] => clothing [term_group] => 0 [term_taxonomy_id] => 16 [taxonomy] => product_cat [description] => [parent] => 0 [count] => 12 [filter] => raw )
As for woocommerce support on this particular subject, there isn’t much out there at all, and what I’ve found didn’t work. At the start, it seemed like something I could track down because adding a custom WYSIWYG field above the main woocommerce product loop would allow for a simple way to customize the page content for each product category… but nothing. I even posted the same issue on WooCommerce’s support site and still nothing after 3 days. So strange.
