empty cart redirects to a nonexistent page /shop/

well good news, i found the setting just fine, thank you.

the bad news is when i tried to set it to the actual products page, the css seems to be completely ignored and the page loads without any style.

funny thing is we actually do have an empty “Shop” page, which seems odd that WP would claim the page does not exist. and yes its published too.

also it appears no matter what is selected for the “Shop page” setting, it still redirects to /shop/

this is a mystery….

Thank you for the update. To assist you better, could you please share the site URL and a screenshot of the settings you have under WooCommerce → Settings → Products → General?

https://comptonpeslonline.com/tmp/settings-products-general.png

Also, please go to WooCommerce → Settings → Advanced → Page setup and share a screenshot of the settings there as well.

https://comptonpeslonline.com/tmp/settings-advanced-pageSetup.png

Additionally, please share your System Status Report, which you can find under WooCommerce → Status. 

https://comptonpeslonline.com/tmp/SystemStatusReport_ajcomptonpesl.com_2025-10-08T15-34-45.txt
–or–
https://gist.github.com/edwardsmarkf/9a88a7fe4fc3f791aa493577eee7c42e

the “continue shopping” button is not working either, strangely. it was working earlier.

• This reply was modified 8 months ago by edwardsmark.

THANK YOU for the quick reply!

if i understand your request correctly, i see one page named “checkout” with just one item:

[woocommerce_checkout]

in my defense, i was not the one who set any of this up. 😊

• This reply was modified 8 months ago by edwardsmark.

thank you again for your quick response!

here is what i am seeing:
1 – starting out: https://comptonpeslonline.com/tmp/woocommerce/1-page-displays.png
2 – page is good: https://comptonpeslonline.com/tmp/woocommerce/2-good-page.png
3 – changed the value as youoriginally suggested:
https://comptonpeslonline.com/tmp/woocommerce/3-changed.png
4 – page now displays incorrectly:
https://comptonpeslonline.com/tmp/woocommerce/4-page-bad.png

now i reset the value back to “shop”:
here is my empty cart: https://comptonpeslonline.com/tmp/woocommerce/5-cart-empty.png
here is what i see for our “shop” page: https://comptonpeslonline.com/tmp/woocommerce/5-missing-shop-page.png
but yet our shop page does exist: https://comptonpeslonline.com/tmp/woocommerce/6-shop-page-edit.png

hopefully this helps you understand our situation.

hi –

the “Shop” page does now appear, however its not the same “shopping cart” page that we are using.

and oddly, the “continue shopping” button disappeared.

everything is reset now back to “normal”. however, i am getting the impression that overriding the “/shop/” page may not work for us.

hi –

first off, thank you for your assistance thus far. unfortunately there appears to be some sort of conflict between the theme and the plugin at best guess.

so in order to resolve (for now anyway) i have made the following changes:

./wp-content/plugins/side-cart-woocommerce/assets/js/xoo-wsc-main.js
line 322:

toggleCart(e){

    if (typeof replaceHrefItem === 'function') {
        let mySelector= 'a[class="xoo-wsc-ft-btn xoo-wsc-btn xoo-wsc-cart-close xoo-wsc-ft-btn-continue"]' ;
        replaceHrefItem(mySelector) ;
    }

line 542:

toggleBasket(){

    if (typeof replaceHrefItem === 'function') {
        let mySelector = 'a[class="xoo-wsc-btn"';
        replaceHrefItem(mySelector);
    }

And i have created a JS snippit:
function replaceHrefItem(mySelector) {
if (document.querySelector(mySelector)) {
document.querySelector(mySelector).href = '/ilp-research-division/' ;
}
}
this is something of a temporary(semi-permanent) workaround until i can determine a better solution. and YES i understand i need to fix this after every plugin update. a simple bash-sed script will do this for me.

any thoughts? (thoughts other than “we dont recommend tampering with source code” that is.

better, just eliminate the buttons entirely, along with the shorcode text and picture (which is surprisingly not a shortcode option):

<!-- BEGIN css style tags for 'wooCommerce shopping cart' -->
<style id='woocommerce-custom-style' type='text/css'> /* 2025-10-09 */ 

a.ast-loop-product__link:link[href*="//DOMAIN.com/ilp-research-division/"] , 
a.woocommerce-LoopProduct-link:link[href*="//DOMAIN.com/ilp-research-division/"] , 
a.xoo-wsc-ft-btn-continue:link[href*="//DOMAIN.com/ilp-research-division/"] , 
a.xoo-wsc-btn:link[href*="//DOMAIN.com/ilp-research-division/"] 
{ 
    display: none !important; 
}
 
span.ast-woo-product-category 
{
    font-weight: bold !important;
}
</style>
<!-- BEGIN css style tags for 'wooCommerce shopping cart' -->