How: Sidebar on product category pages with woocommerce - Support

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August 31, 2015 at 9:56 pm #496125

Desire
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Hi!

On my shop page I can add a custom sidebar widget, but how can I have a custom sidebar on product category pages?

Thanks,
desire

September 1, 2015 at 3:16 pm #496431
Elliott
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Hey Desire!

Add this to your functions.php file.
```
add_filter( 'avf_custom_sidebar', 'enfold_customization_custom_sidebar', 10, 1 );
function enfold_customization_custom_sidebar( $custom_sidebar ) {
     if ( is_product_category( 'shirts' ) ) { $custom_sidebar = 'custom'; }
     return $custom_sidebar;
}
```
And change “shirts” with the slug of your product category.

Regards,
Elliott
February 5, 2017 at 2:53 pm #743004
craigriches
Participant
Maybe this is related, but I have a added a “custom menu” widget to my Single Product Pages. Is it also possible to add this same “custom menu” as a sidebar to my product category pages?
- This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by craigriches.
February 10, 2017 at 11:50 am #745338
Ismael
Moderator
Hey!

Please add the custom menu widget in the “Displayed Everywhere” widget area then install the following plugin.

// https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/

Use the following conditional function:
```
is_product_category()
```
// https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/conditional-tags/

Regards,
Ismael
February 10, 2017 at 3:13 pm #745439

craigriches
Participant

Sadly it didnt work for me. Maybe because we have a customised categories list on the category pages, it cannot be over-ridden.

February 11, 2017 at 7:25 am #745704

Ismael
Moderator

Hi!

Could you please provide a link to the category pages? And provide the login details as well so that we can test it.

Cheers!
Ismael

February 11, 2017 at 11:57 am #745747

craigriches
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Hello Ismael,

I was testing your instruction on my local install version of the website, so I can’t give you the links/login for that. But i do have a copy of the site on a live server which I would need to install the widget-logic plugin first before you can login and have a look.
Just to confirm with you, am all I supposed to do is add the custom menu widget to the “displayed Everywhere” area, install widget-logic, and then add is_product_category( ) to the conditional field? This is all I have done on my local install, which appeared to have no effect. I haven’t added anything to the functions.php file, like you instructed the user Desire in an earlier part to this thread.

I can give you a link to an example of a current category page on the live site to illustrate what is currently there, although it has been custom styled by a developer (no longer in our employ)
I can also give you a link to a single product page example showing our custom menu in the sidebar which we would want to ultimately have appear on the category pages instead of what is there now, and hopefully get styled by someone in a similar way at a later point.

February 13, 2017 at 5:21 am #746103

Ismael
Moderator

Hey!

The markup of the category page looks different. Did you modify the archive-product.php template? Please compare it to the markup of the product category page in the demo.

// http://kriesi.at/themes/enfold/product-category/tshirts/

Best regards,
Ismael

February 13, 2017 at 2:56 pm #746421

craigriches
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Ismael, the archive-product.php was indeed modified by a developer in the early stages of development. I had a look at the one in our child theme compared to the standard Woocommerce template and they do differ. I tested your suggestion using the plugin on my local install with the modifed code stripped out of the child theme archive-product.php and replaced with the standard version and it does work.
So thanks for the advice.
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