Child Theme not activating a woocommerce template

[Matthew]

OK, Sounds good, I’ll give it a try and let you know how it goes.

Thanks

[Matthew]

@tjchester @bentasm1

It worked!

Thanks for your help TJ! And Ben thank you too.

So, for now I will need to remove woocommerce.php whenever I update the Boss parent them is that right?

If you are going to update the theme with this fix so I no longer need to remove woocommerce.php could you let me know?

Thanks again both of you!

[Ben]

@matthewjamesboy

If WooCommerce detects woocommerce.php — It uses it.

If WooCommerce does not detect woocommerce.php, it then uses anything from /themes/yourtheme/woocommerce/*.* as its template structure, if those templates exist.

Ben

[Alyssa]

@matthewjamesboyd1984 @bentasm1 I’ll send this fix to the developers for the next release. 🙂

[Matthew]

Excellent, thanks for your help TJ

Mat

[Matthew]

@tjchester

Hi TJ, I’ve just noticed a couple of issues:

1. There is a sidebar in both the single product view and shop page (even if I have no widgets in the ‘Page Sidebar (default)’ or ‘Woocommerce -> Shop’ widget areas.

2. No widgets are visible when dropped in the ‘Woocommerce -> Shop’ widget area

3. The widgets (including filters) work if I drop them in the ‘Page Sidebar (default)’ widget area but then that sidebar displays on all my other pages that use a default page template

I think what I need is this:

1. The widgets to work when dropped in the ‘Woocommerce -> Shop’ widget area

2. The sidebar to not be displayed in the single product view page

How can I achieve this? Just let me know if you need access to my wordpress backend to have a look.

Thanks in advance,
Mat

[Alyssa]

@matthewjamesboyd1984 I’m afraid these were the issues our developers previously ran into and why we were using the woocommerce.php file to begin with. WooCommerce is not as easily integrated as I originally thought. I will keep this on the request list but is not something I am able to solve. Sorry. I’ll let you know if I am able to get anything working before the developers.

[Matthew]

@tjchester

Ok, fair enough. Thanks for looking into it for me.

[Alyssa]

@matthewjamesboyd1984 copy sidebar.php to your child theme find this:
<?php if (is_active_sidebar('sidebar') ) { ?>
change to this:

<?php if ( is_shop() && is_active_sidebar('woo_sidebar') ){
     dynamic_sidebar('woo_sidebar');
   } ?>
	<?php if (!is_shop() && is_active_sidebar('sidebar') ) { ?>

[Farouk]

Hi,

Similar issue here, No widgets are visible when dropped in the ‘Woocommerce -> Shop’ widget area

Please let me know

[Varun Dubey]

Hi @lahir, Its not related to it, I have got your login details, i will update you shortly.
woocommerce.php file is removed from Boss parent theme (1.1.9).
I will close this topic , if you have any further issues please open a new topic
Regards