GLOBAL AND SELECTIVE USE OF SIDEBARS IN WOO COMMERCE USING BEAVER BUILDER THEME:
I am using BB theme with woo commerce to develop my site.
It appears the “Customizer” offers only a GLOBAL DEFAULT setting for using a SIDEBAR in WooCommerce pages, as when I select a sidebar, ALL single product pages, ALL category pages, and SHOP page all have a sidebar installed in them…NOT what I need or want.
So …how do I >
How do I install a sidebar on SPECIFIC woo commerce pages ? For example, I might want a sidebar on one of the single product pages, and one of the category pages, but no sidebars on all the other woo commerce product and product archive pages.
How do I install a sidebar on SPECIFIC woo commerce TYPES of pages…for example, I might want a sidebar on ALL of my product category and sub category pages, but NO sidebars on ANY other woo commerce pages. I might NOT want a sidebar on ANY single product page. etc. etc etc.
How do I keep control of the Sidebar WIDTH and LOCATION (left/right, small - medium - large) for each specific woo commerce page I want to install a sidebar into ?
How do I customize each sidebar with the “widget(s)” I need to use for that grouping of pages or that one specific page where I need the sidebar located ?
How do I control the specific “filtering” options for each specific page or type of page I install a sidebar into ?
EXAMPLE: A sidebar gets installed in a specific category page with specific filtering options for that category, but how do I adjust the filtering options for another category ? I imagine I would need to create a separate sidebar for each category with specific filtering options for that category and make sure to install the appropriate sidebar into the appropriate page ?
Unfortunately, the BB theme doesn’t have control over the sidebar on that level. In fact, I’m not really sure if there is a theme that offers such level of control. I’d suggest using a plugin like WooSidebars. This gives you a bit of control over the sidebar. Or if you know PHP/WordPress functions, you can hard code the changes in a child theme.
While I was looking for “granular” control of sidebars in woo commerce pages using BB theme…I now just want you to confirm that BB theme’s customizer only offers ability to “turn on or off” sidebar in woo commerce, and that it is a “GLOBAL” setting, meaning that when sidebar is turned “on”, it appears in all woocommerce product pages/archives, and when turned “off”, no sidebar appears.
As I understand it, “WooSidebar” is a plugin for “replacement of existing sidebars with another sidebar and widgets”, NOT a way to have “granular” control as to whether or not a sidebar appears (at all) in a particular woo commerce page/archive or not. Correct ?
So the issue I am raising here has less to do with the BB theme then it does with the way WooCommerce is coded ? correct ?
Correct on all points. Again, not really sure if there is such a theme/plugin that offers that level of control. The closest I’ve used so far is the WooSidebars plugin, but as you’ve said, it merely replaces the widget area with another. Although it doesn’t give you control whether a sidebar appears or not, you can remove all the widgets on that specific widget area making the sidebar look blank. But then you’ll have to add custom CSS to remove the sidebar altogether.
The only way I know of to achieve what you want is to modify the theme files but this requires PHP/WP functions knowledge.