conditional tags

Are you trying to make it work with in_category() function but nothing happens? Well, in this tutorial you will find out why.

Actually it is a very common mistake and I also did it before.

First things first, let’s begin with the fact that products in WooCommerce are a custom post type product and product categories are a custom taxonomy product_cat. When you work with custom taxonomies, do you use functions for categories/tags or for taxonomies?

Comparing to is_product_category(), WooCommerce doesn’t have its own conditional tags here, so we have to use default WordPress conditional tags like has_term().

Are you using is_category() and nothing works?… This tutorial is just for you then.

Please keep in mind, that product categories in WooCommerce are just a WordPress taxonomy product_cat. It means that it is possible to use all the conditional tags related to taxonomies as well.

But let’s begin with WooCommerce conditional tags first.

• is_product_category() – returns true on every product category archive page,
• is_product_category( $category ) – you can check if you are on a certain product category page just by passing an ID, slug or title of a category as an argument.