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ghosthunter
ghosthunter

Reputation: 303

How to display custom sidebar in specific WooCommerce category?

I have specific question about WooCommerce plugin.

I am using WooCommerce Product Categories widget to show category menu on the left sidebar.

On my website I have a category for special offers (which contains some subcategories and products) and I want other categories to be hidden from Woocommerce Product Categories widget when user opens this "Special Offers" category.

I already tried to create custom sidebar to show only on this category but without luck.

How can I achieve this?

Maybe I can create two seperate widgets - one will display list of category "Special offers" subcategories and second widget will display other categories & its subcategories but.. how to show these widgets with that kind of conditional logic?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3726

Answers (2)

Daniel Danielecki
Daniel Danielecki

Reputation: 10502

Unfortunately, none of the ways to solve the problem from StackOverflow worked:

I've tried to edit these files: archive.php (due to seeing "Archiwum..." on https://sklep.atutdotacje.eu/kategoria-produktu/artystyczna/, so thought maybe your theme reads category pages as archives), sidebar.php, and framework/modules/sidearea/templates/sidearea.php. I've also looked into framework/modules/sidebar/sidebar.php & framework/modules/sidearea/functions.php.

There were many versions of the code I've tried on these .php files (that's the longest try):

<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidearea' ) || is_product_category() ||
is_archive() || is_product_category( 'zawody-przyszlosci' ) ||
is_product_category( array( 'zawody-przyszlosci', 'artystyczna' ) )) {
                dynamic_sidebar( 'sidearea' );
} ?>

Trying to set up from Products -> Categories -> particular category option, is also not working. "Display type" doesn't solve the issue.

I found out while Googling my problem there are even articles on theme provider sites how to fix such a problem ttps://theme.co/forum/t/sidebar-not-showing-category-pages/48760/7

Therefore, I've reached out to my Theme provider, and they sent me an article, where I solved it in 5 minutes: https://helpcenter.qodeinteractive.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002245937-How-To-Set-Up-The-WooCommerce-Shop-Category-Sidebar-On-Your-Site

For me, it was:

  1. Make sure your Shop page is set in Dashboard > WooCommerce > Settings > Products:
  2. Then navigate to Appearance > Widgets > and create a new Custom Widget Area - (it needs to be a custom area):
  3. (theme specific step, but might be something similar for your one) Now edit the Shop page in Dashboard > Pages, then locate and Edit the page, scroll towards the bottom and find Choose Widget Area in Sidebar. Now simply select your Area.

Long story short: ask your theme provider how to do that.

Upvotes: 0

LoicTheAztec
LoicTheAztec

Reputation: 253804

---- Update (related to your comment) ----

You need to use the conditional is_product_category( 'my_category_slug' ).

Reference: WooCommerce Conditional Tags

You should try then this, to include also all subcategories of your 'special_offers' category.

if ( is_product_category( 'special_offers' ) || is_product_category( array( 'my_sub_category1', 'my_sub_category2', 'my_sub_category3' ) ) ) {

    // My custom side-bar code for "Special Offers" category

} else {

    // My custom side-bar code for all other products

}

Fine tune (adding or removing subcategories) and replace 'my_subcategory1', 'my_subcategory2', 'my_subcategory3' by your subcategories slugs, please.

Upvotes: 1

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