Still having breadcrumbs issues

Have you tried installing WordPress SEO and enabling breadcrumbs from SEO → Advanced → Breadcrumbs?

You’ll also need to toggle the “Products” drop-down to “Product Category” https://d.pr/i/163Sx

That will override the default Genesis breadcrumbs, and should result in a “Home > Shop > Category > Product” permalink structure, which may be useful as a workaround for now.

Nick,

I’d been wondering about the diff between Yoast and Genesis SEO. I took your suggestion and, voila, I now have breadcrumbs displaying properly on all shop, shop category and shop product pages!

You rock!

The only breadcrumb-related thing I can’t figure out now is proper syntax on the blog section, the root page of which I refer to as Articles rather than Blog (mysite.com/articles). Any given blog post displays breadcrumbs in the format home > category > post rather than the desired home > articles > category > post.

My WP SEO > Advanced breadcrumb taxonomy for posts is set for Category. The other options are None, Tag, and Format. Format doesn’t appear to change anything. Any ideas?

Thanks again!

Glad that helped!

To modify the breadcrumbs on posts with an additional link to the blog page, you’d probably need to filter the WordPress SEO breadcrumb output. Something like this in your theme’s functions.php file should work:

function custom_adjust_breadcrumb( $link_output, $link ) {
	if( is_single() && $link['text'] == 'Home' ) {
		$link_output .= ' ? <a href="/articles">Articles</a>';
	}
	return $link_output;
}
add_filter('wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link', 'custom_adjust_breadcrumb', 10, 2 );

That’s untested and may need additional tweaking, but hopefully it helps nevertheless. You’re welcome to follow up with WordPress SEO support if you’d like more help adapting this.

Does anyone know of a way to do this without installing another plugin? I’m still stumped.

@hortons-art You’re welcome to try the following code in your active theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter( 'genesis_archive_crumb', 'custom_prepend_shop_link', 11, 2 );
add_filter( 'genesis_single_crumb', 'custom_prepend_shop_link', 11, 2 );

function custom_prepend_shop_link( $crumb, $args ) {

	if ( is_singular( 'product' ) || is_tax( 'product_cat' ) || is_tax( 'product_tag' ) ) {
		$shop_id    = wc_get_page_id( 'shop' );
		$shop_title = get_the_title( $shop_id );

		$prepend = gencwooc_get_crumb_link( get_permalink( $shop_id ), $shop_title, $shop_title, $args['sep'] );
		$crumb = $prepend . $crumb;
	}

	return $crumb;

}

You should find that this adds a “Shop” link to the breadcrumbs on single products and on product archives, without having to install Yoast SEO.

You’ll need to also:
– Make sure that Genesis Connect for WooCommerce is still active.
– Tick the “Posts” and “Archives” boxes at Genesis → Theme Settings → Breadcrumbs.

@nick Cernis
Thank you for your help with this! Your solution worked perfectly!

Thanks for the note, @hortons-art, and you’re welcome!

I researched for how to fix my breadcrumbs for 4 hours yesterday. And this worked perfectly! And I already had this plugin installed. I had never used the breadcrumb settings. Genius! Thank you, thank you!