The Problem
When adding functionality to a WooCommerce store we sometimes want to add features that should only be present on category or tag pages. In this article, we’ll take a look at how we can detect category and tag pages in our WooCommerce code.
The Solution
This code will detect if the user is on a category page
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//returns true if the current page is a category page is_product_category(); //returns true if the current page is the category page specified in the passed argument is_product_category('shirts'); //returns true if the current page is any of the category pages specified //in the passed array is_product_category(array('shirts', 'games' )); //also works with numerical ids is_product_category(18); is_product_category(18,19,20);
The code for detecting a tag page is very similar
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//returns true if the current page is a category page is_product_tag(); //returns true if the current page is the tag page specified in the passed argument is_product_tag('puzzles'); //returns true if the current page is any of the tag pages specified //in the passed array is_product_tag(array('jigsaws', 'toys' )); //also works with numerical ids is_product_tag(18); is_product_tag(18,19,20);
Discussion
There’s not really an awful lot more to say about this as the code itself is pretty self-explanatory. If you do have any questions then please don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments.