Shop Page Pushing Down Sidebar

[Sher]

Hi! I'm new to Genesis and up to now have managed to figure things out, but now I'm stuck. I'm using the Sample Theme with Woocommerce and I've got the Genesis Connect for Woocommerce Plugin active. I also have Genesis Simple Sidebars and Design Palette Pro and some others. I don't remember when it all started... when the sidebar got pushed down. I've been trying all different things to fix it and I'm afraid I might be overdoing it. Please, could someone take a look and tell me what I did wrong? http://www.dutch-goodies.com Thank you so much 🙂

http://www.dutch-goodies.com

[Susan]

It appears you have a maintenance plugin installed - I can't see your sidebar.

First, deactivate all your plugins to rule out a conflict; if that resolves the issue, then start reactivating your plugins to determine which one is the culprit.

[Sher]

Thanks Susan. I deactivated all plugins and then started adding them back one by one. No change to the shop page. The plugins I now have activated are:
Woocommerce
Genesis Connect for Woocommerce
Genesis Design Palette Pro
Genesis Style Trump
Ultimate Coming Soon Page

I forgot that maintenance mode was active, sorry about that! Please login with 'temp' and 'temp' at http://www.dutch-goodies.com/wp-admin to see the pages.

Thanks again!

[Webmaster]

Hi Sher,

Looks like there are too many products per row for that page layout. Try adding this to the functions file for the theme:

// Change number or products per row to 3
add_filter('loop_shop_columns', 'loop_columns');
if (!function_exists('loop_columns')) {
function loop_columns() {
return 3; // 3 products per row
}
}

If that doesn't work for your theme, you might try this:

WooCommerce Product Archive Customiser

Good luck!

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[Sher]

Hi there! Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried adding the code to the functions file and it did move things over to the left and gave space on the right for the sidebar to move north. But the sidebar did not budge, it stayed down below.

So then I removed the code and tried the plugin (which is really cool - thanks for that) but the result was what you see now which is the same problem as before, only with 3 products taking up the same real estate as the previous 4, still pushing the sidebar down.

I also tried cutting the padding around the products, it provided the same results as did the code you suggested... it moved the products to the left side, but left the sidebar down below.

I deactivated the Genesis Design Palette Pro to make sure it wasn't conflicting. But that does not change anything.

What would cause the sidebar to stay down there?

[Sher]

Ok, I got it.

I removed archive-product.php, single-product.php and taxonomy.php from my Woocommerce directory in the child theme. I had them there to customize them, following some other tutorial somewhere, but I think I abandoned that idea. It is now looking normal again.

Thanks to you guys for helping out!

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