How to have a custom display for both woocommerce archive and product-category pages? [closed]

Generally, you can tell WordPress to load a different template. The mostly seen approaches make either use of the template_redirect or the template_include hook. It is preferable to use template_include as described in this article. Following an example on how to approach this:

Code:

// load the woocommerce category archive template
add_filter( 'template_include', 'wpse138858_woocommerce_category_archive_template' );
function wpse138858_woocommerce_category_archive_template( $original_template ) {
    // we're loading the template conditionally, 
    // but only if we're actually on a woocommerce category archive
    if ( is_product_category() ) {
        // you've to create the template you want to use here first
        return get_template_directory().'/woocommerce-category-archive.php';
    } else {
        return $original_template;
    }
}

Additional information:

• Woocommerce Conditional Tags

Notes:

• untested
• There might be a more specific way to do this for/with woocommerce, depending on how they handle there template loading. For that you have to extend your research and/or dive into the woocommerce code.

Edit:

What you are looking for – if you want to do it the woocommerce way – is the function wc_get_template_part() – formerly, pre WC 2.1, woocommerce_get_template_part(), now deprecated. I’ve given an answer on how to use the latter some time ago, you can do it for the newly named – the functionality is the same – function accordingly. The answer of course regards the direct use of the function, in your case you probably want and should make use of the correspondent hook wc_get_template_part. With this information on hand you should be able to do this the woocommerce way.