72hourplan

Okay, I found the problem.
the WordPress “Settings” area has a “Sharing” section.

Inside the sharing section at the bottom is asks which area to show sharing buttons on.

this sharing button function calls a large amount of empty space, not sure why and i haven’t located where yet, but the current work around is easy enough… uncheck the first box named “Front Page, Archive Pages, and Search Results” b/c WC returns the categories pages as “archives” so it then adds the share buttons and all that extra blank space to the $description string in the woocommerce-template.php file ->
woocommerce_taxonomy_archive_description() function call.

unchecked the box, now there is no excessive empty space on the category archive page.

Once i figure out why that empty space is rendering in the first place, then I will update this post.

BTW – I appreciate the CSS suggestions, but I found my site renders better leaving it the way I had it.

Thank you for the suggestion, here is my CSS: and it still does not render the category or product page in the center. (i added the float left to the #contentbox as you suggested)

div#contentbox {
  margin-top: 10px;
  margin-left: 210px;
  margin-right: 210px;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  float:left;
}
div#sidebar-left { float: left; }
div#sidebar-right { float: right; }

I removed the float:left; from my content box, now my pages and products are rendering in between my sidebars, but my category archive is still below everything. I will keep working on this, and hope to post a fix for benefit of others.