Me again, posting about my favorite WordPress ecommerce plugin, WooCommerce, and my favorite WP themes, Elegant Themes.
I recently (today) had some problems with the WooCommerce product display on a client’s website. Scouring the forums and the knowledge base and Google in general, I saw I was not the only one. There are a lot of us who wonder why the default setting for product display on a normal product page is set to “10”. Strange number that doesn’t work well with rows of 4, the default row setting in Woo. BUT that problem is fairly easily solved. I’ve done it several times with no problem.
My problem today was different. The number of products on the product category was the issue. It was only displaying 5 products at a time, which looked ridiculous. I spent way too long trying to find the WooCommerce .php template that called for that limit. It wasn’t there. Because it wasn’t WooCommerce’s fault at all. It was my theme.
Right there in the epanel of my Divi theme was a setting for default number of posts to display on a category page… and it was set to “5”.
I figured I’d lay out a list of all the places to check if you encounter this problem:
- Go to Settings/Reading and make sure the field for “Blog pages show at most” is set where you want it.
- Look carefully through your theme settings for any mention of number of posts on a category page or an archive page. Many themes have a setting that specifies this value. All of the Elegant Themes have a field for this setting. Go to Appearance/(Your) Theme Options/General/Number of Posts displayed on Category page.
- If you still have trouble, you may need to add a snippet to your theme’s functions.php referred to in the WooCommerce documentation here.
- It’s also possible that your theme has its own category or archive page template that dictates the number of posts per category page. Check there as a last resort.
Hope this helps you out, and feel free to ask questions below. I’ll help if I can!
I had the same problem with Woocommerce + Divi and this saved me a lot of time, thank you!
That’s awesome, so glad I could help!
Thank you thank you thank you! Worked like a charm.
You’re so welcome!
Thank you, been searching for a solution to this for a week now. 🙂 Never thought it could be an elegant theme issue. Tks Again
Also for me it worked perfectly; thanks a lot 😀 !
the great way, solved my issue. thanks a lot
Hey thanks a million Christy. It worked for me too. I was searching inside the code and wasted a lot of time. Thanks for sharing with us
Thank you thank you thank you so much!
Your solution, below, worked for me. I wasn’t sure which of the Posts setting controlled the quantity of products displayed so I upped all of them and it worked first time.
Thanks very much.
David
Look carefully through your theme settings for any mention of number of posts on a category page or an archive page. Many themes have a setting that specifies this value. All of the Elegant Themes have a field for this setting. Go to Appearance/(Your) Theme Options/General/Number of Posts displayed on Category page.