Add a WooCommerce Sidebar with Genesis Simple Sidebars

Here is how to add a separate sidebar for WooCommerce pages using Genesis Simple Sidebars.

One of the ways to make WooCommerce and Genesis play nicely is using a plugin called  Genesis Connect for WooCommerce , but users are having issues with its code and from my own experience it is troublesome if also using Genesis Simple Sidebars, which we will use to create our extra WooCommerce sidebar.

So we will make Genesis and WooCommerce compatible without a plugin

Connecting Genesis and WooCommerce

In your functions.php declare WooCommerce support

Then in your theme folder create a new file named woocommerce.php and add :

This is essentially removing replacing the Genesis default loop with the WooCommerce content.

Source and modified source by @pixelyzed

 

Create a WooCommerce Sidebar with Genesis Simple Sidebars

 

Set the Sidebar for WooCommerce Pages Only

Finally in your functions.php you can set a conditional to make the Woo pages use the new sidebar

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