After updating to 2.2.5 template override for archive-product.php dosen't work

The ‘shop’ page should use archive-product.php. What are you hoping it will use?

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Mike Jolley -> Sorry I mean archive page. Shop I use as example for catalog so I will just re formulate problem. After updating woocomerce 2.2.5 archive page uses woocomerce default archive-product.php instead one thats overrides ( myTheme/woocommerce/archive-product.php ). This problem appears only with archive with taxonomy-product_cat.php witch includes archive-product.php everything seems to be OK

The ‘catalog’ is the shop. It’s a post type archive (of products) and should use archive-product.php by default.

Mike Jolley -> Then how I can override Product Archive / Shop Page ? Because I copied template file from plugin directory to myTheme/woocommerce/archive-product.php and made some changes dosen’t it overrides default theme archive-product.php and why its work fine with taxonomy-product_cat.php which includes same file ? Before update everything was working fine ??

You mention the ‘theme’ /archive-product.php – does your theme have one too?

Yes, I have ‘theme’ /archive-product.php in theme root dirctory with content
<?php woocommerce_content(); ?>

That one is probably taking priority. Tried editing that instead?

No, but I will try

No seams this file content changes doesn’t affect anything. Tried even remove it but still for Product Archive / Shop Page woocommerce prefer to use archive-product.php from plugin directory.

Hi Mike,

Yes, this seems to be an issue. For some reason, the archive-product.php page only works for the category or tag. Here is my page that has the category for this product: https://rlarson.somethumb.net/product-category/gardening/

As you can see, I’m printing out the query (modified with a custom field). The Shop page should at least not show the sidebar, as i have removed it from the archive-product.php template. So i KNOW it’s not using the template in my theme.

https://rlarson.somethumb.net/shop/

Is it possible that there is a database glitch that is doing this? I don’t have anything in my functions.php file that would cause this. And my index.php and page.php files don’t have a sidebar either.

I think something is causing the shop page to NOT use the theme’s woocommerce template.

It took me a while to find it but this is discussed in the docs. It’s best to use hooks:

Please note: when creating woocommerce.php in your theme’s folder, you won’t be able to override the woocommerce/archive-product.php custom template as woocommerce.php has the priority over archive-product.php. This is intended to prevent display issues.

https://docs.woothemes.com/document/third-party-custom-theme-compatibility/

I had that issue also…I tried to override the shop with this template file archive-product.php and just didn’t enter in my theme’s template – it always took the original one.
I was able to solve this by disable Template Debug Mode in woocommerce tools.
I personally enabled that but i was not paying attention at the small explaining text:”This tool will disable template overrides for logged-in administrators for debugging purposes.”
Maybe this will help someone ??

@Adinusmall: We had the same problem and your solution solved it for us. I recommend to all that you go to Woocommerce -> System-status -> Tools and see if Template Debug Mode is checked. Uncheck it to make overrides fully work.
Thanks for the tip, Adinusmall!