Mihalia – I am currently using Tower 1.4. I believe that I updated when I received the email last week. Is that the correct version? I cannot find any indication online what the most recent version of the theme is.

I am still seeing the warning at the top of my dashboard: “Your theme (Tower) contains outdated copies of some WooCommerce template files. These files may need updating to ensure they are compatible with the current version of WooCommerce.”

However, two of the files have dropped off the list (perhaps with the update?) and now there are only two that are out of date:

tower/woocommerce/single-product/add-to-cart/variable.php version <strong style=”color: red;”>2.4.0 is out of date. The core version is 2.5.0

tower/woocommerce/single-product/review.php version <strong style=”color: red;”>2.1.0 is out of date. The core version is 2.5.0,

Mihaila – Do you have an estimate for when the next theme update will happen?

I’m trying to customize WooCommerce on my functions.php page, and the code is not working (I’ve been speaking to someone on the wordpress.org forum.) We can’t figure it out, and all I can think is that it’s related to those two outdated files. I would change them manually, but after reading how to do it I’m not sure I understand and I don’t want to screw up my site.

Thanks Mihaila! Here is my issue (WooCommerce specific):

When you click on a product category or subcategory, you see a list of products (image, name, and price.) When you hover over the product image a button pops up that says “add to cart.” You need to click on the product image to go to the product page that has the actual product information (product description, reviews, etc.).

It is confusing, because it isn’t intuitive, and so far no one I’ve tested the site on has figured out that if you click on the image, you’ll get more information about the product. I want to change the button to “product info” to send you to the product page instead of adding to the cart.

The WooCommerce author who responded to my request on the forum gave me the following instructions, but they didn’t work. I’m hoping that it’s a matter of the outdated php files.

INSTRUCTIONS FROM WOOCOMMERC AUTHOR

Turn off the ‘ajax add to cart’ option in WC > Settings > ProductS

Add this to theme functions.php:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_add_to_cart_url', 'custom_woocommerce_product_add_to_cart_url', 10, 2 );

function custom_woocommerce_product_add_to_cart_url( $url, $product ) {
if ( $product->is_type( ‘simple’ ) ) {
$url = get_permalink( $product->id );
}

return $url;
}

If you want to see the entire conversation, it’s here:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-add-to-cart-button-in-category-to-product-description-1?replies=8#post-8191868

Mihaila – When I follow those instructions, it does not work. I suspect I am adding this information to the wrong area, because when I open functions.php it does not look like what you showed me on your screenshot.

I have been getting to the functions.php page by going through Appearance>Editor and then selecting the functions.php file from the list on the right. Is there somewhere else that I’m supposed to be adding it instead?

I’ve left it as-is so you can see what I’ve done. Please let me know if I’m missing a } bracket, put it in the wrong spot, etc.

Thank you so much for your help!

Mihaila – Thank you so much! I had a suspicion that I was adding the code to the wrong spot. Now I know where to add it for other/future changes, so thank you again. I really appreciate it.

Do you know how to change the text of the “add to cart” button, so that it says “product info” or “view product” instead? Or is that something I would need to ask back in the wordpress.org forum?

Thank you for the CSS – I may choose to do that if I can’t change the button text.

Thank you again for all of your help!

This is perfect – thank you!