[Resolved] conditional widget on woo category archive pages

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[Steve]

Hi ive created our woocommerce archive pages with toolset and have a widget area id like to display on those archive pages only However when I wrap the widget with
is_product_category()

The widget content doesn't appear on the front end of the site.

Do i need a different conditional wrapper to work with the toolset created wordpress archives

Thanks

[Mateus Getulio]

Hello there,

I apologize for the delay caused to the weekend.

Can you please share screenshots on how you're setting it up so that I have a better idea of what could be causing it not to work?

Thank you,

Please let me know.
Mateus

[Steve]

Thanks Mateus and no worry about the weekend I wasnt expecting a response until today

Here's my function- As i mentioned the widget works and the content is display every where if i remove the
if ( is_product_archive() ) {
} conditional. So my questions was is there a different way of creating the conditional due to the fact that the woo archive is created in toolset

function woo_menu_widget() {

if ( is_product_archive() ) {
genesis_widget_area( 'woo-menu', array(
'before' => '<div class="woo-menu">',
'after' => '</div>',
) );
}
}

Thanks

[Mateus Getulio]

Hello Steve,

Thank you for the further information. Are you using a hook to add the conditional?

I created a similar setup and was able to show a widget only in products archive using the 'woocommerce_page_title' hook:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_page_title', 'customize_woocommerce_product_archive', 101, 1 );
function customize_woocommerce_product_archive( $page_title) {	
  if ( is_product_category() ) {
    // Widget code goes here  
  }
}

Alternatively, you can also use a conditional shortcode by following the steps:

1) Create a custom shortcode to check current page is archive page of taxonomy "product_cat", for example add below codes into your theme file functions.php:

add_shortcode("is_tax_sc", function($atts){
	$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
		'tax' => '',
	), $atts);
	$res = 0;
	if(is_tax($atts['tax'])){
		$res = 1;
	}
	return $res;
});

This will create a custom shortcode [is_tax_sc] to check if current page is archive page of specific taxonomy, in our case 'product_cat'

2) Dashboard-> Toolset-> Settings-> Front-end Content
in section "Third-party shortcode arguments", add the shortcode name: is_tax_sc

3) Use above shortcode like this:

[wpv-conditional if=" ( '[is_tax_sc tax="product_cat"]' eq '1' ) "  evaluate="true"]
// widget goes here
[/wpv-conditional]

I tested the second method and I was able to customize the conditional shortcode to only product archive.

Can you please give it a try?

Thank you,
Mateus

[Steve]

Mateeus thanks the issue was my hook I was using a genesis page hook and i needed a woo hook Im all good now