Wrong or no widgets showing on Catalog/Product listing page

  • Resolved moonstruck

    (@moonstruck)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi, this plugin seems to be working with my theme . But I have a problem with widgets on the starting Products list/Catalog page, maybe I have done something wrong? (Free version of plugin, I have not made a “theme-integration”)

    Single page and category page looks fine and show the products, and after some tweaks with the theme, also the widgets that I want. I use Headway theme and can attribute a layout template with specific widgets to exactly the single/post/page/category/taxonomy etc I want.

    But the starting “Products”-page where I show the Catalog as a Product listing, Classic list, has a problem.
    The Catalog-container is showing fine. But the widgets that I want are not showing! (the same widgets that shows on products single and category pages.)

    Intitially, after plugin install, Catalog page was showing the widgets from my Blog/News. And that′s not at all what I want. (But maybe that could be depending on my theme set-up, when adding a new page?)
    (The topmenu also marked Blog/news as the page I was on, instead of Products, see my other support question. I don′t have that login with me today so I use this! Sorry).

    I have tried but the Products page refuses to show other widgets than from my blog, and when I try to mirror the widget from my single product page it says “No widget” instead.

    Any suggestions what to try?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/ecommerce-product-catalog/

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  • Follow up:
    Something is happening with the widgets in connection with the plugin settings of wich page should show the Catalog List/Product listing page.

    Now I have deleted the widget box on Products Page and the mirroring from all these other places. But that widget “Produkt” is still there in the WP admin – widgets! And it was still showing on my Products page, even thou I had no widget box anymore on that page! It is like a ghost?

    But even more strange: I created a new testpage called “Testkatalog”, and created a new widget and content area. No problem. Then I choosed that page to be the Product Catalog page where the plugin will show the catalog list. And then the widget I created was swopped and suddenly it was showing the old “ghost” that I have deleted!! (but still is there in the WP Panel widgets).
    At the same time my first Products page got rid of the ghost widget and is now showing correctly!

    Can you help to find what is happening and what is the problem?

    Plugin Author ndre

    (@ndre)

    Hi,

    As it seems that you have trouble with applying a custom sidebar on custom post type archive the easiest way to solve such problems is:

    1. Create the integration file as described in theme integration guide and place the desired sidebar there
    or
    2. Use shortcode to create product listing

    Okej I will try with shortcode.

    (My developer collegue didn′t like the idea of that extra integration file, he said it would be outside the updating routine/control…?)

    I have disabled “Enable product listing page” in the “General settings” and used the shortcode instead on that page. And I have added the widgets I want on that page. I also mirrored the widgets to the category and single pages, now without any problem.
    So it looks like the widgets is working fine now! Good!

    (See my other thread for loop problem that I still have.)

    Plugin Author ndre

    (@ndre)

    My developer collegue didn′t like the idea of that extra integration file, he said it would be outside the updating routine/control…?

    Not if you will do it in a correct way – using a child theme.

    OK.
    But I am happy now, it is working fine, without a child theme.

    Resolved! (I can′t see the resolve check box.)

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