Do I work on cart PAGE or cart TEMPLATE?

  • Resolved vytaulla51

    (@vytaulla51)


    8 months, 1 week ago

    Hi!
    Working on rebuilding an existing classic site with WooCommerce to a block theme. I’m using Blur theme. So I had a question and first, found this: https://woocommerce.com/document/cart-checkout-blocks-status/

    OK – so WooCommerce is moving towards blocks and explains how to remove the classic cart shortcode and replace it with the cart block. Sounds good.

    What isn’t clear to me is, where do I do styling? On the cart PAGE? Or in the cart TEMPLATE?
    From what I can tell, they contain the same content. If I change the content in the Cart PAGE, it seems to change in the Cart-TEMPLATE. This appears to be the case with Blur Theme, but I checked with Twenty Twenty-Three and it seemed the same with that too.

    So the Template has the header and footers in them; the page doesn’t. But the “content” is the same. I’m working on a staging version of an existing site, so the Cart PAGE had the classic WooCommerce shortcode for the cart, plus some stuff above and below it. That all showed up when I went to the Editor > Templates > Page:Cart.

    So does it matter where I make changes? Is working on page versus template better or not as good? (I assume it will be the same for the Checkout PAGE vs. TEMPLATE as well?)

    Just want to be sure I’m not missing something –

    Thanks!

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  • Hey there, @vytaulla51! Thanks for contacting us. I’m happy to help you.

    The difference between templates and pages is that when you go to Pages and choose a page to edit, you will be changing the content of the page. The actual text, images, etc on that specific page. When you edit a template you will be editing the layout of every page that uses that template. So if you add an image there, the image will show on every page with that template, for example. There are also templates for posts, not only pages.

    So for general pages, you should always edit the content of it on the Page and the overall layout on the template.

    The thing with the cart and checkout pages is that you don’t usually have more than one of those, so the content ends up being on the template too.

    I would suggest keep editing the cart and checkout pages, instead of the templates. It keeps things consistent, and if someday you end up switching to a non-FSE theme, the page will still look as it should ??

    I hope this was clarifying. Please let us know if there’s anything else we can do to help or if you have any questions.

    Have a wonderful day!

    Thread Starter vytaulla51

    (@vytaulla51)

    Hi:

    Thanks for your reply!

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