title: How to modify WooCommerce cart, checkout pages (main theme portion)
body: <p>I have been researching and tweaking away at my custom Wordpress theme and overridden WooCommerce templates with now WooCommerce installed to rectify a bunch of small formatting issues that occur on the WooCommerce pages. I'm down to now the cart and checkout, which yeah they use <code>cart.php</code> (and whatever checkout php), but also uses the main Wordpress theme <code>page.php</code>. I've been able to use <code>is_woocommerce()</code> in conditionals other places but not here as I've learned the WooCommerce docs say that can't be used on checkout and cart.</p>
  
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    <p><strong>is_woocommerce()</strong> -     Returns true if on a page which uses WooCommerce templates (cart and checkout are standard pages with shortcodes and thus are not included). 
    <a href="http://docs.woothemes.com/document/conditional-tags/" rel="noreferrer">http://docs.woothemes.com/document/conditional-tags/</a></p>
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  <p>So how can I alter the appearance of these pages? I have a "View All Posts" and a date/time at the top, and categories sidebar of page.php that I don't want showing up for obvious reasons on the checkout and cart since they don't make sense at all. What are my options?</p>
  
  <p>Can I make it use a different template other than page.php?</p>
  
  <p>Is this an option? Is it bad practice... does it cause more load on every page with this loop? Where do I put it?
  <a href="http://saiyedfaishal.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/check-if-it-is-woocommerce-page/" rel="noreferrer">http://saiyedfaishal.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/check-if-it-is-woocommerce-page/</a></p>
  
  <p>What's the best way to go about this? Thanks for any help!
  This question is somewhat related to - <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23521142/how-to-modify-woocommerce-before-cart-action">How to modify woocommerce_before_cart action</a></p>