woocommerce on page templates - wordpress

Question

Ive made a new page template and copied the woocommerce archive-product.php into it but while the shop page works, the custom page does not, is there a way to make it function the same as the shop page? noticed it also does not pull in anything else from visual composer or normal content.

Answer 1

For those who wants custom woocommerce shop template ( archive-product ) here is a sample template, which can be customized to any extent.
<?php
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
exit; // Exit if accessed directly
}
get_header( 'shop' ); ?>
<?php
/**
* woocommerce_before_main_content hook
*
* #hooked woocommerce_output_content_wrapper - 10 (outputs opening divs for the content)
* #hooked woocommerce_breadcrumb - 20
*/
do_action( 'woocommerce_before_main_content' ); ?>
<?php if ( apply_filters( 'woocommerce_show_page_title', true ) ) : ?>
<h1 class="page-title"><?php woocommerce_page_title(); ?></h1>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php do_action( 'woocommerce_archive_description' ); ?>
<?php
global $post, $product;
$args = array(
'post_type'=>'product',
'posts_per_page'=>-1,
'orderby'=>'date',
'order'=>'ASC'
);
// get all the posts ( here it would be all the wc products )
$posts = get_posts( $args );
/**
* woocommerce_before_shop_loop hook
*
* #hooked woocommerce_result_count - 20
* #hooked woocommerce_catalog_ordering - 30
*/
do_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop' );
if( count( $posts ) > 0 ) {
woocommerce_product_loop_start();
woocommerce_product_subcategories();
foreach( $posts as $post ) {
// this will put the current post into the GLOBAL $post object
setup_postdata( $post );
// this will put the product data into GLOBAL $product object
wc_setup_product_data( $post ); ?>
<!-- Now you have valid WP loop, put the content-product template here -->
<?php wc_get_template_part( 'content', 'product' ); ?>
<?php
}
woocommerce_product_loop_end();
} else {
wc_get_template( 'loop/no-products-found.php' );
}
/**
* woocommerce_after_shop_loop hook
*
* #hooked woocommerce_pagination - 10
*/
do_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop' );
/**
* woocommerce_sidebar hook
*
* #hooked woocommerce_get_sidebar - 10
*/
do_action( 'woocommerce_sidebar' );
get_footer( 'shop' ); ?>