Show WooCommerce Product Categories only in Sidebar on WooCommerce Pages

[plentyvegan]

Hi and thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

I have installed WooCommerce and Genesis Connect for WooCommerce on my Genesis, Divine Theme site. I find the sidebar that works for the rest of the site - the blog, mostly - is goofy when it comes to the store: http://plentyvegan.com/shop/. I haven't populated the products yet, but I want the shop to serve as a stand-alone market. I think the best way to do this would be to have the sidebar only consist of product category selections, like in most ecommerce stores, on all WooCommerce pages - shop, product pages, category pages, etc. - and have the sidebar that shows recent posts, Instagram feed, etc. appear on the rest of the site.

If possible, I would like this category tree to be a left-hand sidebar, vs. my right-hand sidebar for the rest of the site (odd, maybe, but seems to be convention?).

Is there any way to customize this?

Thanks again.

http://plentyvegan.com/shop/

[Brad Dalton]

You can install a plugin like Widget Logic and use the is_product() conditional tag

Or

You can use Genesis Simple Sidebars and add support for WooCommerce

Or

You can hand code a sidebar widget area in a single product template.

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[plentyvegan]

Thanks for responding so quickly!

I actually just installed Genesis Simple Sidebars. It's great.

Now, I want to make sure only that sidebar appears on my WooCommerce pages. To that end, I dropped this code in the functions.php file:

function themeprefix_remove_default_sidebar() {
if( is_page ( array( 'cart', 'checkout' )) || 'product' == get_post_type() ) {//set which pages
remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'ss_do_sidebar' );
remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' );
add_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'themeprefix_add_woo_sidebar' );
}
}
//Alternative Sidebar
function themeprefix_add_woo_sidebar() {
dynamic_sidebar( 'Plenty Vegan Market' ); //add in the sidebar name
}
add_action( 'genesis_before_sidebar_widget_area', 'themeprefix_remove_default_sidebar' ); //sets the ball rolling

Now what is happening is the the sidebars are stacked, rather than the Primary Sidebar that I have active on the entire site being removed. Here's an example: http://plentyvegan.com/product/herb-crackers/

I grabbed that code from someone's site so I can't figure out what to edit to remove the Primary Sidebar. Do you know what I edit?

Thanks again.

[Brad Dalton]

I suggest you ask the original author of the code why it doesn't work and how to fix it.

Also, i can't see it stacked, did you link to the site where the code is installed?

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[plentyvegan]

I've asked the author - thought I'd try you too just in case there's no response there.

Yeah that page show them stacked (http://plentyvegan.com/product/herb-crackers/). The Simple Sidebar begins at "Product Categories". If you click to the blog, you'll see that the sidebar there doesn't have that part.

[Brad Dalton]

I wouldn't use simple sidebars and code at the same time.

I would choose which solution you want to use and only use 1 solution to avoid conflicts.

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[plentyvegan]

Ah ok.

Sounds like your suggestion of:

[Brad Dalton]

Also note: The WooCommerce Genesis Connect plugin includes support for Genesis Simple Sidebars built in.

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[plentyvegan]

I'm a bit lost on this point. I have WooCommerce Genesis Connect installed and Genesis Simple Sidebars. What does it mean that Connect includes support for Sidebars?

[plentyvegan]

Update:

I uninstalled simple sidebars and installed WooSidebars. Seems to work like a charm.

Thanks!

[Brad Dalton]

Good solution if you want to use another plugin.

If you want a custom template which includes a custom sidebar for single product pages, here's a template i spent several hours coding for use in any Genesis child theme.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[plentyvegan]

Thanks for your help. I think I have a workable solution for now. Great to have the code for the custom sidebar if that looks like a good option for the future.

Thanks again.

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