I have seen this question and answer. That does not work.
Setup
I am running:
WordPress 5.4.1
WooCommerce 4.1.1
I have a custom theme that overrides some of the WooCommerce templates by placing my own templates in: themes/my_theme/woocommerce/template-name.php
I have established that the shop page (homepage) uses the template archive-product.php. I have copied the this from plugins/woocommerce/templates/archive-product.php into my theme and made some minor HTML changes which work perfectly. There are no functional changes in my theme's copy, just some HTML.
The problem
I want the homepage to only show the store categories, as thumbnails. There is an option to set the shop page to show categories instead of products:
Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Catalogue
Shop page display has been set to Show Categories
However the shop homepage seems to ignore this setting entirely, and it still shows the products. It seems surprising that WooCommerce's own template does not honour this setting!
How do I find this setting in the template and then show the categories (as thumbnails) on the shop homepage?
Is there an equivalent to woocommerce_product_loop() for looping categories?
As a side note, the Storefront theme does honour the setting but Storefront does not have the template archive-product.php. Storefront seems to be highly abstracted and after much debugging of it / trying to take it apart I have so far not worked out which template file it is using for the shop page.
My theme is already in production and I just want to make an update so that the homepage shows the categories instead of going directly into the products list.
I found a workable solution. The WooCommerce default templates don't support the setting to show categories on the Shop page.
However using a shortcode with do_shortcode(), and a condition this can be achieved as follows:
if (is_shop()) {
echo do_shortcode('[product_categories hide_empty="0"]');
} else {
woocommerce_product_loop_start();
if ( wc_get_loop_prop( 'total' ) ) {
while ( have_posts() ) {
the_post();
/**
* Hook: woocommerce_shop_loop.
*/
do_action( 'woocommerce_shop_loop' );
wc_get_template_part( 'content', 'product' );
}
}
woocommerce_product_loop_end();
}
Still:
I would like to know how to pick up the 'show categories' customisation setting shown in the question, so my theme responds to that.
Is there a better way than using do_shortcode(), this feels like a bit of a hack
Related
I would like to modify the products sorting on the shop page to product categories filter where the user can select the browse the products of categories from there.
I am a rookie in programming. I checked the WooCommerce directory to find the .php file I should work on. I got some clue it is in archive-product.php but I don't see the code which display the sorting dropdown.
Can anyone give me some clue to achieve this ? Or is there any workaround ? Thanks.
I added this in functions.php :
// remove default sorting dropdown
remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_catalog_ordering', 30 );
// now add the new dropdown
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'add_product_category_dropdown' );
function add_product_category_dropdown(){
print '<span class="woocommerce-ordering">'; // So it takes the same position as the default dropdown
the_widget( 'WC_Widget_Product_Categories', 'dropdown=1' );
print '</span>';
}
The reason you wouldn't see the code is that majority of what is generated by Woocommerce is handled by actions and hooks. In easier terms this means Woocommerce creates functions that spits out content and assigns them to different areas of the website.(For more information on Woocommerce actions and hooks, read here - https://docs.woothemes.com/document/introduction-to-hooks-actions-and-filters/ )
I'd recommend using the plugin below. It does exactly what you seem to be asking for and you can avoid having to play in parts you might not be comfortable with yet.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/yith-woocommerce-ajax-navigation/
Most awesome thing is that it's not one of those plugins that force you to get premium to actually get the desired effect.
I just found the solution few days ago. I use the function of WooCommerce product categories widget on the shop page.
This line of code will output the dropdown of product categories:
<?php the_widget( 'WC_Widget_Product_Categories', 'dropdown=1' ); ?>
Like many people that start using woocommerce for the first time I need to know how to customise it. In my particular situation I want to remove the sidebar from the Cart, Checkout and single product pages. My sidebar is defined and called from sidebar.php using the code below:
<?php dynamic_sidebar('global-sidebar'); ?>
I have tried for a long time to find an answer that works but I can't seem to find the correct code or solution. Perhaps asking the question myself will work. By the way I really appreciate the answers in the other articles and how-to's but they don't work for me.
Before I go any further I am using Bootstrap (latest version as of 2014) to style my Wordpress website. Not sure if that matters but maybe it does somehow.
Can someone please tell me how I find and then tell Woocommerce not to display any kind of sidebar on the Cart, Checkout and Single Product pages?
p.s.
The website can be found here > wp.wunderful.co.uk (staging site for a client website project)
Go to "Cart" page from dashboard pages, from "Page Attribute Section" -> "Templates" choose "Full Width" this will give you a page without sidebar.
In theory, something like the following ought to work, but I haven't tested it. (To be added to your theme's functions.php)
function so_25700650_remove_sidebar(){
if( is_checkout() || is_cart() || is_product() ){
remove_action( 'woocommerce_sidebar', 'woocommerce_get_sidebar', 10 );
}
}
add_action('woocommerce_before_main_content', 'so_25700650_remove_sidebar' );
If you look at the Woo templates you will see
<?php
/**
* woocommerce_sidebar hook
*
* #hooked woocommerce_get_sidebar - 10
*/
do_action( 'woocommerce_sidebar' );
?>
This is Woo saying: "Display the sidebar here". But it is adding the woocommerce_get_sidebar function to the woocommerce_sidebar hook... which is convenient because it allows you to unhook that function like I've shown above. Finally, I am using Woo's conditional logic to only unhook the function from its action on the pages you requested.
I'm running my function on the woocommerce_before_main_content hook, which I think should work assuming your theme hasn't removed that hook. If so, then you could probably use wp_head or something that is guaranteed to be there, though then you'd probably want to check that the is_checkout(), etc functions exist or risk breaking your theme should you ever deactivate WooCommerce. As I have it, i should only run on WooCommerce-specific pages and so checking if the WooCommerce functions are defined is probably overkill.
Important Note:
This assumes the default theme or a theme that isn't running its own custom sidebar functions. If your theme is doing something else you will need to investigates its particular functions and templates.
What you should do is to create a files called woocomemrce.php in your theme if it doesn't already exists. Then you should look at your page template files for full width and for page with sidebar to see how they are structured and see where they differ.
Then copy the contents of one the files into woocommerce.php and replace the loop with woocommerce_content(), see this page for details.
Lastly see where the different page templates differ and then use if-statements in the places where they differ.
if( is_post_type_archive( 'product' ) ) :
//Content to display in the list view (i.e. with sidebar)
else :
//Content to display all other views (i.e. without sidebar)
endif;
.woocommerce-cart .sidebar {
display: none;
}
.woocommerce-cart .content-area {
width: 100%;
}
add this in custom/style.css.
From
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-sidebar-for-woocommerce-cart-and-checkout-pages/
On your theme, likely subtheme, function.php
add_action('wp_head', 'hide_sidebar' ); function hide_sidebar(){ if(is_cart() || is_checkout()){ ?>
<style type="text/css">
#secondary {
display: none;
}
</style>
<?php
}
To remove sidebar from the Cart, Checkout and single product pages you want to use action hook in function.php file -
add_action('woocommerce_before_main_content', 'remove_sidebar' );
function remove_sidebar()
{
if( is_checkout() || is_cart() || is_product()) {
remove_action( 'woocommerce_sidebar', 'woocommerce_get_sidebar', 10);
}
}
Here you can get WooCommerce Action and Filter Hook
-https://docs.woothemes.com/wc-apidocs/hook-docs.html
How can I make a wordpress theme woocommerce compatible ? I want to make cart page, my account page, product loop page, product single page,checkout page design into my wordpress theme.
We Can make WordPress theme compatible with woocommerce here is how you can do that
There are two ways to resolve this:
1] Using woocommerce_content() -
This solution allows you to create a new template page within your theme that will be used for all WooCommerce taxonomy and post type displays.
To set up this template page, perform the following steps:
Duplicate page.php-
Duplicate your theme’s page.php file, and name it woocommerce.php. This file should be found like this: wp-content/themes/YOURTHEME/woocommerce.php.
Edit your page (woocommerce.php)-
Open up your newly created woocommerce.php in a text editor, or the editor of your choice.
Replace the loop-
In woocommerce.php, replace the Loop with woocommerce_content();
i.e., instead of if(have_posts)… endif; should be replaced by
woocommerce_content()
This will ensure that the WooCommerce templates are picked up for the product and taxonomy pages.
2] Using WooCommerce Hooks-
The hook method is more involved that using woocommerce_content, but is more flexible. This is similar to the method we use when creating our themes. By inserting a few lines in your theme’s functions.php file, First unhook the WooCommerce wrappers;
remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_main_content', 'woocommerce_output_content_wrapper', 10);
remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_main_content', 'woocommerce_output_content_wrapper_end', 10);
Then hook in your own functions to display the wrappers your theme requires:
add_action('woocommerce_before_main_content', 'my_theme_wrapper_start', 10);
add_action('woocommerce_after_main_content', 'my_theme_wrapper_end', 10); function my_theme_wrapper_start() {
echo '<section id="main">';} function my_theme_wrapper_end() {
echo '</section>';}
3] Declare WooCommerce support -
Now that you have made the changes, the final thing you have to do, is specify that your theme now supports WooCommerce. You need to add the following in functions.php of your theme.
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'woocommerce_support' );
function woocommerce_support() {
add_theme_support( 'woocommerce' );
}
To make it more practical for you this is the video for you, which you
can follow too- How To Make WordPress Theme Compatible With WooCommerce Plugin
You need to install WooC and look at the all the style tags that come accross with it then you can style up the pages and add all of that to your style sheet.
Also you can use hooks but Im not 100% sure how you would check if WooC is active off the top of my head so that hooks in your code only come up when the plugin is active.
I am trying to use Woocommerce plugin and Disqus plugin together on my WordPress blog.
As I can see from other posts on internet, lot of users such as me are facing the issue that - Disqus disables reviews on product page created by Woocommerce.
As Disqus disables WordPress comments which in turn are used by Woocommerce for product review - now there is no way (as far as I could know) to show review form on Woocommerce.
Can anyone suggest a fix for this?
I have already tried the following:
Open Disqus plugin directly.
Go to line number 150 in disqus.php
notice the conditions which says for which posts types Disqus should not render comments.
add - if ( is_product() ) { return false; }
This will stop showing Disqus comment box from product pages created by Woocommerce and it will show usual review form. However, on submitting this - you will receive an error saying WP comments have been disabled.
Can anyone help me here?
I solved this by adding this code to my functions.php file:
add_action('the_post', 'sb_remove_woocommerce_disqus', 10, 2 );
remove_action('pre_comment_on_post', 'dsq_pre_comment_on_post');
function sb_remove_woocommerce_disqus( $post, $query ) {
global $post, $wp_query;
if ($query->is_main_query() && $post->post_type == 'product') {
remove_filter('comments_template', 'dsq_comments_template');
}
}
My problem was if I used Disqus plugin, it replaced my WordPress comment system with Disqus. Thus, disabling reviews on Woocommerce pages.
So instead using Disqus plugin, I simply used its universal code and added to my single.php file, before <?php comments_template(); ?> to be precise.
This seems to work.
I have generated pages using a custom template by creating a php file in my theme directory
something like :
<?php
*
* Template Name: Contact Page
*/
?>
<html ..... </html>
and then adding a new page on the dashboard selecting this new template
How can i now associate tags and categories to each pages ?
Is creating posts instead of pages the only solution?
Even better is to add to functions.php in your theme folder:
function myplugin_settings() {
// Add tag metabox to page
register_taxonomy_for_object_type('post_tag', 'page');
// Add category metabox to page
register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category', 'page');
}
// Add to the admin_init hook of your theme functions.php file
add_action( 'init', 'myplugin_settings' );
Tried using the accepted answer but for some reason it only shows the Post types and none of the Pages shows in the category page. E.g. /category/entertainment/
To fix that, I have to do this:
// add tag and category support to pages
function tags_categories_support_all() {
register_taxonomy_for_object_type('post_tag', 'page');
register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category', 'page');
}
// ensure all tags and categories are included in queries
function tags_categories_support_query($wp_query) {
if ($wp_query->get('tag')) $wp_query->set('post_type', 'any');
if ($wp_query->get('category_name')) $wp_query->set('post_type', 'any');
}
// tag and category hooks
add_action('init', 'tags_categories_support_all');
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'tags_categories_support_query');
Try this:
add_action( 'init', 'wpse34528_add_page_cats' );
function wpse34528_add_page_cats(){
register_taxonomy_for_object_type('post_tag', 'page');
register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category', 'page');
}
Not at all helpful to say 'download plugin' for beginners who are most likely not going to have downloaded wordpress and are therefore not able to install said plugin. Here is some short code for those like me that have been scouring the web for something that actually works on regular pages with regular accounts - ie you're not a developer.
First, make sure you have your pages in your menu set up properly.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO MAKE YOUR PAGES 'Categories' or 'Tags'!
This wouldn't give you actual pages to then go and edit, so if you are wanting to add sliders, text, an intro, or anything for that matter, you wouldn't be able to.
Then go to WP Admin > Pages
Select a page to edit and go to the text editor instead of visual editor (far right hand side tab)
Then past the following short code:
[display-posts category="hair,makeup,reviews,beauty" posts_per_page="10" include_date="true" text-decoration: none date_format="F j, Y" order="DESC" include_excerpt="true" wrapper="div" image_size="large"]
<
(The shortcode collects all the posts that you have assigned certain categories in your blog posts i.e. mine was hair and beauty. So obviously change yours to ones that are appropriate. It then allocates how many posts (mine was 10), the date (in descending order,) with a large image and an excerpt of the post)
this plugin sorted me out :
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-tags-and-category-to-page/
with the standard instructions :
Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
Use the setting page of the plugin from Settings > Add Tags And Category For Page.