1. I’m trying to add content (probably a banner) with a little padding-bottom above the populated content of the shop, including the sidebar. How would I go about doing so?

2. Certain pages (checkout, cart, etc) won’t need the sidebar. Fiddling with the template doesn’t do the trick. How do I determine which pages can skip loading it?

I had a few more questions (sidebar -> background color, elements -> background color, elements -> borders, etc), but I’ve managed to sort out how to fix those by utilizing CSS edits and figuring out how the elements are referenced in the coding.

Thanks a ton!

Jameson, you could adds something like this to functions.php of a child theme.

add_action('woocommerce_before_main_content','custom_shop_before_main_content');

function custom_shop_before_main_content() { ?>
  <!--your banner here-->
<?php
}

You can change sidebar conditions by overriding the sidebar template in a child theme. For example: x/framework/views/renew/wp-sidebar.php

It will take some coding knowledge, but that’s the best place to determine whether or not the sidebar should be loaded.
You can code in your conditions and set the $layout variable.

Colin, I’d recommend checking our CSS Class Index. If you have any specific questions, feel free to open your own thread.

Take care!

1. Remove prior crashed child theme via FTP
2. Re-upload child theme
3. Live Preview > Save and Activate
4. Open the site to double-check (although WP-ADMIN is down when crashed anyway)
5. Check Customizer settings
6. Open “functions.php” under the child theme
7. Add the text
8. Save
9. Witness crash

I’ve attempted this with several different things, since I know coding but not PHP (and ran it past some programmer friends), but I cannot figure out for the life of me why it crashes my site every time I try to implement it. I’ve made sure it’s gone into the “functions.php” page and for that specific child theme every time, and I’m at a loss.

Halp!

EDIT: Ran the entire “functions.php” (which includes no changes besides your suggested one) through an online PHP analysis, and it checks out. So I’m cruising through Shrug City right now. I’ll leave it be and continue putting together the banner and the resources it was going to link to, and wait to here what could fix it.

A white screen usually means there is a fatal PHP error. Can you please enable WP_DEBUG mode? You can do this by opening wp-config.php and adding define( 'WP_DEBUG' , true ); just above /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

For example:

When you revisit the page with the white screen, you should have some error output. Let us know what you find out.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare custom_shop_before_main_content() (previously declared in /home2/theramp3/public_html/thefairnecessities/wp-content/themes/x-child-integrity-light/functions.php:13) in /home2/theramp3/public_html/thefairnecessities/wp-content/themes/x/functions.php on line 112

This is the output. Since it’s very specific, and I understand what it’s telling me, I’ll look into this and see if I can fix it myself.

EDIT: Original problem fixed, but. Apparently, at some point I accidentally dropped the code into the X theme proper, so that’s gone and I was able to easily sort that out. However, nothing I put into the designated area in the code (images, text, what have you) will populate on the pages. Do I need to wrap it in some kind of shell for the PHP to recognize it, or am I doing something wrong?

Sorry, but I’m not sure what you meant. :/ Could you provide a URL address? Or maybe screenshot too.

Thank you.

What fixes did you add? Right now I can’t tell what is wrong.

If you’re having function name conflict, you could just rename the function you added at child theme’s functions.php

Example :

add_action('woocommerce_before_main_content','my_renamed_function');

function my_renamed_function() { ?>
  <!--your banner here-->
<?php
}

Thank you.

The only fix that I applied was to remove the duplicate code on the original X theme. This is all that I have in regards to the proposed fix to allow me to populate content above the automatically-generated content of the store and sidebar.

Here’s the screenshot I forgot to include.