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1. Dean
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Not greatly familiar with how to use hooks, could anyone shed some light on how to achieve this?
   Have read the documentation @ woocommerce & wordpress and am still struggling...

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce/

2. mikejolley
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   if you don't know hooks, override the templates themselves.

   There are instructions here:
   http://wcdocs.woothemes.com/codex/template-structure/

   Get the content with something like

   echo apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content );

3. Dean
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Thanks Mike.

   I had initially overridden the template file, utilising the products loop outlined in your documentation here - http://wcdocs.woothemes.com/snippets/sample-products-loop/

   I was using that loop to display products on my catalog page, which worked mostly fine, except for the fact that it made the woocommerce layered nav widget I have on the catalog (to sort products) no longer work.

   I would prefer to override the theme files this way, as it's a technique I'm more comfortable with, but we do need to be able to sort products on the catalog using the layered nav widget. Is there something I need to add to that product loop in order to allow the widget to work? This is primarily the reason I went back to attempting to achieve this using hooks.

   Oh and also just as an aside, I did initially mimic the file structure (as is outlined in the link you provided above) of the plugin within a woocommerce folder in my (custom made) theme, and no changes applied when I attempted to override the file. So I've just dumped the relevant woocommerce files I need to override directly into the top level directory of my theme folder, which appears to work a treat.

   Anyway, any assistance on the layered nav widget issue above would be appreciated heaps.

   Cheers dude.

4. mikejolley
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   You may have been mirroring the structure wrong. Check you were not use woocommerce/templates/ - it should be just woocommerce/ in your theme folder.

   Layered nav is unaffected by template changes, although if you do anything to modify the wp query that could break things.

5. Dean
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   I was mirroring the template structure incorrectly, your recommendation above resolved that issue. Cheers.

   I've also gone back to overriding the template file completely by simply utilising a straight up loop (rather than hooks) on the archive-product.php file, for the catalog.

   Heeding your advice above re layered nav being broken by modifications to wp query, I removed the entire call to wp query included in your supplied sample products loop and wrapped my loop with the usual loop call I use - <?php if (have_posts()) : ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   Layered nav now functions as it should, which is great. I'm not entirely confident that I am achieving in the best way though... I was always under the understanding that custom posts (of which woocommerce products are yeah??) required a customised version of wp query to function correctly. Though the catalog page is simply echoing out data from these custom posts, so maybe the method I have used is ok?

6. mikejolley
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 10 months ago #
   

   The queries are all setup by woocommerce - you don't need to touch them.

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