Matt Cohen

Hi Darryl,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

This sounds like it may be a conflict with your chosen theme, or a plugin in use.

Do you have a live URL of the store which you could share here, for us to view and inspect?

Hi there,

I’d imagine you’d need to somehow bring the styles that the client likes, and merge them into the custom theme they already have.

The alternative would be to create a child theme of Porto, and customise the non-WooCommerce pages to look like the current site, if that is what the client wants.

You could also explore lengthy options of dynamically switching the active theme, based on what page is currently in view. I wouldn’t recommend this, as it’s quite convoluted, although I feel compelled to mention that it is something which could be done.

Hi MIchael,

When adding new categories, they are not populating in the sidebar. Only older categories are showing. I can edit the current ones and the changes do show.

I imagine these new categories are still empty? WooSidebars shows only categories which have posts assigned, to ensure the plugin shows only the most relevant categories.

This is something we’re considering amending in a future version of the plugin.

Hi there,

Whilst the banners/sidebars do show in ‘individual’ categories, when a search is performed, a related banner/sidebar does not show?

This is related to the plugin you’re using to display the banner adverts, rather than to WooSidebars. By the time the widget code is processed, WooSidebars has already done it’s work, and replaced the sidebar. A WooSidebars-replaced sidebar isn’t treated any differently by WordPress itself, when being output.

I’d advise contacting the author of the banner adverts plugin you’re using, for guidance regarding displaying banner adverts relative to search results.

Hi SimonGiddings,

Please do log a ticket at the Woo helpdesk, and we’ll do our best to assist.

Hi there,

I’ve personally re-tested this extension with the latest versions of both WordPress and WooCommerce. All is in order, so I’ve updated the stable tag to WordPress 4.5.2 as well.

Hi there,

Thanks for your feedback.

The code for this product is in active development, with issues fixed as they arise. A plugin of this nature has a very small code footprint, which inherently implies less on-going maintenance, other than compatibility updates with WordPress, WooCommerce, and the Google Analytics integration pieces.

If there are specific issues you’d like to see fixed, please do log them in the forums for this product. We welcome any and all suggestions, and feedback.

Thanks again for your feedback.

Hi louisapple,

Under Mystile -> Settings -> WooCommerce, there is a “Display the sidebar on shop archives?” setting. Unchecking this checkbox will hide the sidebar from your shop archive screens, including your shop landing page.

@louisapple – you could set the “Shop” page to use the “Full Width” page template. This should provide a full-width shop page.

Hi there,

Thanks for your suggestion here.

I’ve logged this over on GitHub for possible future discussion, here: https://github.com/woothemes/woosidebars/issues/50

Thanks and regards,
Matty.

Hi there,

I can confirm that WooSidebars has been tested up to WordPress 4.5.

Thanks and regards,
Matty.

Hi there,

Thanks for checking in with us.

While WooSidebars can replace content of a widget area, it doesn’t handle any additional styling.

I’d advise contacting the author of the Virtue theme for assistance in this regard.

Thanks again.

Hi there,

While WooSidebars doesn’t currently support this, this would be worth logging as an enhancement over at https://github.com/woothemes/woosidebars/issues/ for further discussion.

Thanks in advance!

Hi there,

To clarify, WooSidebars doesn’t modify any theme files, nor add any code other than the plugin code itself.

I’d advise activating the plugin, removing any custom widget areas, and then deactivating the plugin. This ensures no trace of WooSidebars is left. Beyond this, please do clear your cache as well.

Please advise if this remedies the issue.

Hi Robert,

I’d advise making sure you’re running the latest WordPress, and latest WooSidebars. Beyond this, there may be a conflict with a plugin or theme active on your website.

If you have a staging website, I’d advise enabling WP_DEBUG to see if any error messages present themselves on the “Appearance > Widget Areas” screen.

Thanks in advance!