somertech

Brilliant!

Yes, there was a “small” woocommerce.php file in the theme’s root folder, but there was also a woocommerce folder in there as well.

I renamed them both, and now I have the shop description content and vendor shop headers displaying as they are supposed to.

There is a bit of a display issue, as I am using the theme’s boxed display option and some of the woocommerce content is now spilling over the page edges.

This is the Themes woocommerce.php code
—————————————–
<?php
/**
* The template for displaying all pages
*
* This is the template that displays all pages by default.
* Please note that this is the WordPress construct of pages and that other
* ‘pages’ on your WordPress site will use a different template.
*
* @package i-craft
* @since i-craft 1.0
*/

get_header(); ?>

<div id=”primary” class=”content-area”>
<div id=”content” class=”site-content” role=”main”>

<?php /* The loop */ ?>
<?php woocommerce_content(); ?>

</div><!– #content –>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div><!– #primary –>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

The Div tags surrounding the woocommerce_content function call must serve to contain the woo product content within specified theme parameters.
I think I need to figure out which woo template file to modify to do the equivalent without killing my ability to see shop content, as it had been.

2 steps forward, one back. 🙂

Thank You again.

Thanks Ben;

I did find the updated content for the Vendor-list.php template useful.

However, I am still in search of an answer to my themeing issue.

As indicated by the screenshots, the content that comes from the WC Vendor WordPress Pages containing shortcodes (such as: /vendor_dashboard, /orders & /shop_settings) are rendered according to my Themes rules and looks fine.
I assume that this is because the Page is first rendered according to the Theme template selected in the Page Designer, BEFORE the Shortcode is executed.

I need to know if there is way to force archive-pages, which I believe are dynamically generated, to somehow leverage my Theme template as well?
Would this require hand modifying the HTML/CSS elements in WC Vendor template files to look like my Theme template, or is there a way to (I don’t know) link the WC Vendor archive pages to my Theme template so that I get WC Vendor content to execute INSIDE my Theme template, which is conceptually what seems to happen with shortcodes in WordPress Page files?

Thanks;

Mike

[RESOLVED]

Never mind. It suddenly occurred to me that I could simply use a custom page with a Woocommerce Shortcode in place of the default Shop page as my Store landing page. This way I wouldn’t be modifying the default Woo Shop page.

Problem solved.

Ben;

Thanks for the tip.

Ok, so I haven’t quite done what you asked yet, as it became apparent that “User Role Editor” was not working correctly on my site. I could add secondary roles to a user, but I couldn’t successfully delete them.
After removing that plugin and installing “WPFront User Role Editor” in it’s place, I was able to get my test user account back to the permissions that you indicated above. Very helpful.

Now, that doesn’t exactly solve my original problem, but I was able to more accurately append secondary permissions to my Vendor account and observe the behavior.

With my 3rd party theme in place, it appears as though I need my user to have the Vendor role as primary, and at least the Contributor role as secondary, as I mentioned before. But now that my permissions are cleaned up, the account has access to the back-end in a much more limited fashion.
The account can still see some limited aspects of the Jetpack menu item, and the Events Manager plugin’s menu, but only for their own items.

This is much better, with the exception that I have to manually give every vendor this secondary role, which I am also concerned may lead to other unforeseen security considerations.

Question.
I saw a KB article on the site about using a Front end plugin to enable store management.
1. Is that article current
2. If able to successfully implement that, would it be a complete substitution for back-end product management and report viewing by vendors?

Thanks,

Mike