2 Layouts for a WooCommerce shop

Question

I have to categories named "Collectie" and "Shop", what I want is different layouts for the children of both categories.

I already tried this with the template_include function like this:

function lab5_template_include( $template ) {
    if ( category_has_children('collectie')) {
        $template = get_stylesheet_directory() . '/woocommerce/archive-product-collectie.php';
    }elseif ( is_product_category('shop')) {
        $template = get_stylesheet_directory() . '/woocommerce/archive-product-shop.php';
    } 
    return $template;
}

How do I do that?

EDIT

I solved it with the solution from https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-page-layouts-for-category-vs-subcategory

i added the next lines to taxonomy-product_cat.php

// We need to get the top-level category so we know which template to load.
$get_cat = $wp_query->query['product_cat'];

// Split
$all_the_cats = explode('/', $get_cat);

// How many categories are there?
$cat_count = count($all_the_cats);

//
// All the cats say meow!
//

// Define the parent
$parent_cat = $all_the_cats[0];

// Collectie
if ( $parent_cat == 'collectie' ) woocommerce_get_template( 'archive-product-collectie.php' );

// Shop
elseif ( $parent_cat == 'shop' ) woocommerce_get_template( 'archive-product.php' );

Answer 1

I think you'd be better off running a while loop to determine the parent level category name. Then you can match it against the different parent categories you want to display differently.

edit lab5_template_include() should use is_product_category() instead of is_product_taxonomy() which returns true on product category and tag archives.

function lab5_template_include( $template ) {

    if( is_product_category()){ 

        $slug = get_query_var('product_cat');

        $cat = get_term_by( 'slug', $slug, 'product_cat' ); 

        $catParent = so_top_product_category_slug($cat);

        // locate the new templates
        if ( 'collectie' == $catParent ) {
            $new_template = locate_template( array( 'woocommerce/archive-product-collectie.php' ) );
        } elseif ( 'shop' == $catParent ) ) {
            $new_template = locate_template( array( 'woocommerce/archive-product-shop.php' ) );
        } 

        // set the new template if found
        if ( '' != $new_template ) {
            $template = $new_template ;
        }

    }

    return $template;
}
add_filter('template_include', 'lab5_template_include', 20 );

edit bug fixes and improved efficiency of so_top_product_category_slug(). Now tested and working.

// get the top-level parent product category from a term object or term slug
function so_top_product_category_slug($cat) {
    if( is_object( $cat ) ){
        $catid = $cat->term_id;
    } else {
        $cat = get_term_by( 'slug', $cat, 'product_cat' );
        $catid = $cat->term_id;
    }
    $parentId = $cat->parent;
    $parentSlug = $cat->slug;
    while ($parentId > 0) {
        $cat = get_term_by( 'id', $parentId, 'product_cat' );
        $parentId = $cat->parent; // assign parent ID (if exists) to $catid
        $parentSlug = $cat->slug;
    }
    return $parentSlug;
}