In
/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/cart/cart-empty.php
<p class="return-to-shop"><a class="button wc-backward" href="<?php echo apply_filters( 'woocommerce_return_to_shop_redirect', get_permalink( wc_get_page_id( 'shop' ) ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Return To Shop', 'woocommerce' ) ?></a></p>
to
<p class="return-to-shop"><a class="button wc-backward" href="/your-desired-page/"><?php _e( 'Return To Shop', 'woocommerce' ) ?></a></p>
Hi,
do I need to create a “template” directory in my “woocommerce” directory and in this template directory another “cart” directory with the cart-empty file? Or just a cart directory with the cart-empt file in the woocommerce directory?
To clarify: Do I need to create this:
/wp-content/themes/my_child_theme/woocommerce/templates/cart/cart-empty.php
or
/wp-content/themes/my_child_theme/woocommerce/cart/cart-empty.php
Thanks!
Plugin Contributor
royho
(@royho)
Hi, so a better way to do it is put the following code into your child theme’s functions.php file.
add_filter( 'woocommerce_return_to_shop_redirect', 'return_to_shop_link' );
function return_to_shop_link() {
return 'http://yourlink'; // change to the link you want
}
This way you’re not modifying any template files at all and is totally update safe.
Hi Roy Ho,
okay, I will try this, just a question(sorry but I am a total newbie…):
Do I just copy the code you gave me into m functions.php file or do I need to write anything else above it? I noticed the fuctions file always starts with <?php .
Thanks!
Plugin Contributor
royho
(@royho)
It needs to be within <?php but don’t add more if it already has them.
Go with Roy Ho, however you must edit in any notepad editor so that if you face any issues with your mistake you can always undo it.
Thank you guys, it worked!!
You can make this change with out any additional code.
Just go into Woocomerce setting > products > display
And assign which ever page you want the “return to shop” button to go to as the “shop” page.
bingtx, Thanks for providing this simple and easy solution! I didn’t want to make changes to the PHP code and try and mess around that. I had made some changes to my cart and I had accidentally left the information under WooCommerce > Products > Display > Shop Page blank! After I entered it, everything worked perfectly! Thanks!
Does anyone know how to change the Return to Shop button Text? It says “Return to Shop” how could I change the button so it says something else “Return to Products”?
I have a shop page whose url goes like :http://wordpress/catalogue
And I have created a product category page and called it another shop page.Its url is http://localhost/wordpress/product-category/category1
Now on the single product page; if I am coming from the catalogue page, on click of “Back to Catalogue”; I am redirected to catalogue page which is correct.
But if I come to the single product page from the product category/category1 page then the still the click of “Back to Catalogue” link redirects me to the catalogue page. Actually, it should have been the category 1 page.
How do I achieve this?
I have found a cart-empty.php code in which it has the following piece of code which reads:
“><?php _e( ‘Return To Shop’, ‘woocommerce’ ) ?>
How am I supposed to go about making the redirection?
Please guide.
I got the solution
In my functions.php i wrote this piece of code:
/**
* Changes the redirect URL for the Return To Shop button in the cart.
*
* @return string
*/
function wc_empty_cart_redirect_url() {
return 'javascript:history.go(-1)';
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_return_to_shop_redirect', 'wc_empty_cart_redirect_url' );
And then included this filter in cart-empty.php as below:
<p class="return-to-shop"><a class="button wc-backward" href="<?php echo apply_filters( 'woocommerce_return_to_shop_redirect', wc_empty_cart_redirect_url ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Return To Shop', 'woocommerce' ) ?></a></p>
You can redirect the shop page to another page so if someone lands on it by mistake or types in the url they are still redirected.
function shoppage_redirect()
{
if( is_shop( ))
{
wp_redirect( home_url( '/page_slug' ) );
exit();
}
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'shoppage_redirect' );
BingTX is right.. You have to configure it in the control panel in order for it to work. Woo should have preconfigured it and left the option for customization. They also won’t add a gallery because there are plugins and they also won’t add a sign up on front page and an option to cancel out personal info for downloads because there are plugins.
Woo! That was a lot to say.
