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royho
(@royho)
Hmmm, I am not aware WooCommerce registers any sidebars. This would seem like an issue with your theme. Have you contacted your theme developer?
I am the theme developer. I have defined a second ‘shop’ sidebar in my functions.php and incorporated it a template file within my theme.
I then have changed the store pages’ template to this template but it still shows the ‘blog’ sidebar which is called in index.php.
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royho
(@royho)
That’s probably because WooCommerce doesn’t use “pages” but instead uses custom post type.
@miocene22
in my case, i created a “sidebar-shop.php” with the stuff calling my woocommerce widgets and a “sidebar.php”, which is my default sidebar for the normal posts / pages.
get_sidebar(‘shop’) will call sidebar-shop.php file.
@rhonz10
Great, yeah that’s pretty much what I’ve done. It seems that WooCommerce always uses index.php which has my normal sidebar in it. How do I tell index.php to call a different sidebar file like sidebar-shop.php when WooCommerce pages are showing?
SOLVED! There is a handy function is_woocommerce() which returns true on a woocommerce page and false on a normal page.
@miocene22 and @rhonz10,
Could you please elaborate on how you fixed this issue?
I have my single product page laid out the way I want to by altering a copy of the single-product.php in my theme folder. The only problem is that the sidebar is displaying the “search for:” search bar, pages, categories, and archives widgets, yet none of these widgets are currently placed in any of my theme’s sidebars. I can’t figure out what file these are being called from.
http://www.biologydesign.com/SarahCHanson/product/accretion-1/
I’ve unhooked the woocommerce sidebar and tried adding a hook for my theme’s sidebar, tried calling the sidebar in the single-product.php file, everything. Everything works as it should, except this sidebar issue.
If I could just get one of my theme’s sidebars to display, I could work with that. I’m just not 100% sure how the two of you went about fixing this issue with adding “shop sidebars into your function.php file”.
And I completely agree that Woocommerce should include their own sidebar within the plugin. That was first thing I looked for after installing the plugin and was stunned that their wasn’t one. I knew I was going to cause me more work.
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide.
Hey there. I have tried to follow but I cannot. Can someone explain to me how that might work with my theme? I have unlimited sidebars and can assign any sidebar in the page setting and I can use a special page template to desicide where the sidebar should be. Of course now the Problem is, that the shop page always shows the default sidebar for the posts. By now all I did was creating a woocommerce.php in the theme folder and used get_sidebar(‘Shop’); Whats the next step?
Thanks for any help!
