What's with the archive-product.php file in woocommerce?

Question

WordPress

Copied the archive-product.php file to the theme/woo commerce/ folder in the theme. theme/wocommerce/archive-product.php
I needed to display a block with a message when displaying products of a certain category.
As I understand it, this file is responsible for displaying products when viewing a category.
Added code.

But there were no changes.
Deleted the file and folder in the theme folder. Went directly to the plugin folder. Pasted there. Also zero response.
What's wrong?

Answer 1

Most likely you have a self-written theme (instead of archive-product.php it pulls the page.php file), in order for archive-product.php to work, you need to insert the code in functions.php to declare support in the theme:

<?php
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'woocommerce_support' );
function woocommerce_support() {
    add_theme_support( 'woocommerce' );
} ?>

Then create a woocommerce.php file in the theme root for your template, with content for example:

<?php
/**
 * Шаблон обычной страницы (page.php)
 * @package WordPress
 */
get_header(); // подключаем header.php ?>
<section>
  <div class="container">
    <div class="row">
    <?php get_sidebar(); // подключаем sidebar.php ?>
      <div class="<?php content_class_by_sidebar(); // функция подставит класс в зависимости от того есть ли сайдбар, лежит в functions.php ?>">
        <?php woocommerce_breadcrumb(); ?>
        <?php woocommerce_content(); ?>
      </div>

    </div>
  </div>
</section>
<?php get_footer(); // подключаем footer.php ?>

Then, in the folder with the theme, the woocommerce folder, drop archive-product.php into it and all your changes will already be accepted in it.

Answer 2

theme/woocommerce/archive-product.php -> theme/woocommerce/archive-product.php