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I am building a website from scratch on WordPress using WooCommerce. I'll be having products from numerous brands and to have an easier time organizing them, I've made each brand a category. Currently, when I go to mywebsite.com/product-category/brand_name it's using my page.php template. I would like it to use a different one, but I'm not sure what file I need to add. I tried page-product-category.php, page-product.php, page-category.php and nothing seems to work. I understand that "woocommerce/content-product.php" is what I need to edit in order t ochange what the woocommerce output looks like, but I also need to edit everything else, header, navigation, footer and so on. I tried a few more different pages too, such as "woocommerce/woocomerce.php", "category.php", but still no luck, it still uses my page.php template. Thank you in advance!

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  • Also, if anyone is able to help, what about the other pages such as /product/, /cart/ and /checkout/? Thank you!
    – stefanplc
    Sep 5, 2018 at 15:57

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product-category URL uses taxonomy-product-cat.php which calls archive-product.php

you will need to override it by creating the same file with the same name in themefolder/woocommerce/archive-product.php

You can open any file in templates folder in the WooCommerce plugin and you will find a line in the very top comment describes how to override the file.

Don't forget to add add_theme_support( 'woocommerce' ); in the theme functions.php If It's not there.

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  • Thank you so much for offering to help! So I took my page.php and duplicated it, renamed it to taxonomy-product-cat.php and then changed something in it so I can tell the difference and I uploaded it in my theme folder. I then refreshed the /product-category/ page and it's still picking up the page.php file :( What am I missing?
    – stefanplc
    Sep 5, 2018 at 16:16
  • Ok I figured it out. I also needed add_theme_support( 'woocommerce' ); in my functions.php file. Could you please edit your answer by adding that so I can mark it as the full correct answer? Thanks!
    – stefanplc
    Sep 5, 2018 at 16:28
  • oh, This line should be in any theme now. I will update the answer,
    – Ash0ur
    Sep 5, 2018 at 16:36
  • Yeah, I didn't know, my first time using WooCommerce :p. Thanks for your help!
    – stefanplc
    Sep 5, 2018 at 17:08
  • add_theme_support( 'woocommerce' ) did the trick for me. Thanks.
    – Zeth
    Dec 27, 2020 at 22:06

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