Use conditional header.php for category and procuct pages in Woocommerce

Hi there ????

There might be several approaches to how to achieve this goal, and one way is to start with the get_header() function. Most themes include this function, and can be explored starting here:
https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/get_header/

That page also has an example that suits your requirements (multiple headers), which you’ll find lower down on that page.

Thanks! Thats’ a handy function. I guess, to use it to call a special header for Category and Product pages, I would need to know the names of the templates woocommerce uses for those pages – Which I guess are archive-product.php and single-product.php? I tried this:

function get_header( $name = single-product ) {
    do_action( 'get_header', $single-product );

But that broke the site – Guess I misunderstood?

Hey @pete468,

Gotcha. I would suggest taking a look at one of the example functions for some ideas on how to implement this. Here’s one as an example:

<?php
if ( is_home() ) :
    get_header( 'home' );
elseif ( is_404() ) :
    get_header( '404' );
else :
    get_header();
endif;
?>

This one uses WordPress’s conditional tags to load different headers based on what’s viewed.

The get_header( 'home' ); will load a file named header-home.php when the is_home() conditional is true.

You can read more about WordPress’s conditional tags here:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Conditional_Tags

WooCommerce also has ones you can use:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/conditional-tags/

I hope that gets you pointed in the right direction.

Cheers

Hi @pete468,

It’s been a while since we heard from you, so I’m marking this thread resolved. Hopefully, you’ve been able to resolve this, but if you haven’t, please let open up a new topic and we’ll be happy to help out.

Take care