Can we add a5 FORM to category in woocommerce?

Difficult to say anything without a bit more info. Where exactly do you try to insert the short code? There might be areas in your WP installation where shortcode is not applied.

There might as well be an interference with some other plugin and / or theme.

We created a site
The catalog is based in woocommerce but without price (items not for sale).
On the same site we wish to have another page where we can have a shop selling some items called “buy items” under the shop tab.
The menu would look like this

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Home About us Catalog Shop Blog Contact us
Buy items

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But customers should register before getting into the shop page.
Therefore we created a new category called ‘buy items’ and linked it under a page named ‘shop’

In order for customers to login, we used A5 short code to the shop page.
Saved page settings.
Refreshed site page, still A5 form does not happen to show us on the ‘shop’ page
Not knowing much if there are other plugins to be installed too, in order for A5 to work?
We tried also installing A5 short code into category (description) field .
The login lightbox does not appear.

Either we are doing the complete process wrong
But we believe there is help out here to guide us.
Any lead to a step-by-step guide will be sincerely appreciated in making A5 FORM work the site we are developing.

Sorry tepelstreel to provide incomplete info in previous reply.
Theme: Sydney
Where does the short code need be applied within the theme?
May you please help

No prob. It’s not always obvious what information is needed. The funny thing is, that I’m just experimenting with some woocommerce plugins.

I found that after installing anything on top of woocommerce (and probably itself), it helps refreshing the permalink structure of the blog. That eliminated all my 404 errors.

And usually, shortcode is applied in a post. Nowhere else. That’s why it might not work at all.

There are some text widgets that apply shortcode and some that don’t e.g. So, inside a theme, you only put it where the theme authors say that shortcode is applied.

If you have the possibility to enter some custom html or text, the input has to be processed by do_shortcode(). Otherwise you won’t see it appear.

The [a5-login-form] won’t produce a lightbox. It just creates a login form. If you put it to a normal ‘page’ post-type you should see it like you see that one.

https://shop.stefan-craemer.com/shop/

If you are logged in, you will of course not have a login form. but only the administration link and the link to log out.

tepelstreel thank you for the update and going into all details.
Its nice of you do do so.

Since we are a new to wordpress, would there be a step-by-step tutorial on now to have A5 FORM working on a page we wish to have it.

Again, much thanks for replying and going more than a mile for us.

You are welcome, cloeisme.

There is not much of a step-by-step tutorial needed.

Just use the button in your editor, when opening the page for the shop and [a5-login-form] will appear.

That’s it. Or use the login widget in the sidebar. But be aware that you won’t see the form as long as you are logged in yourself. ??

And refresh your permalinks after installing woocommerce. Otherwise you might have those 404 errors in deed.

Hello tepelstreel,

Thank you for all your support.
The issue is solved.
Please close the ticket.

Thanks