Breadcrumbs Bug

  • Resolved mrblond

    (@mrblond)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    When the product page is open the Breadcrumbs are wrongly shown.
    When sub-category page is open everything is okay.

    When enabled they are shown like this:

    Home » Catalog » Main Category » Sub-category 1 » Sub-category 2

    When open the last level (the product page), they should be shown like this:

    Home » Catalog » Main Category » Sub-category 1 » Sub-category 2 » Product

    But they are shown like this:

    Home » Catalog » Product

    Subsequently, when visitor is in the product page, he can’t go directly in chosen category but has to go to Catalog page and start again from the beginning. Moreover, the clue in what sub-category is the product disappears.
    This makes the Plugin unusable for catalogs with sub-categories.

    How can this bug be corrected?

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by mrblond.
    • This topic was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by mrblond.
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  • wdolby

    (@mdolbear)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Following. I have the same issue.

    Plugin Author ndre

    (@ndre)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    The breadcrumbs are generated from the URL structure.

    If you want to include the categories in the product URL you should use the Smarter Product URLs extension from the catalog extensions menu.

    If you want to display current category tree you can also use the categories widget with the ‘Show children only on category page’ option active.

    Thread Starter mrblond

    (@mrblond)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    I understand.
    The Products URLs are somehow intentionally designed this way so that to force you use extension.
    This disappoint me.

    Plugin Author ndre

    (@ndre)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @mrblond,

    This is not designed by the plugin. This is the WordPress URL structure for custom post types. For most of the usages it is OK because one product can be assigned to many categories.

    The extension has been created for some specific usage scenarios.

    Thread Starter mrblond

    (@mrblond)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    I don’t know but other catalog plugins that I’ve tried make it exactly the right way without doing nothing:

    Catalog » Main Category » Sub-category 1 » Sub-category 2 » Product

    and the URL includes sub-categories and product (no extensions needed).

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by mrblond.
    Plugin Author ndre

    (@ndre)

    7 years, 1 month ago

    Maybe they don’t use WordPress custom post types or do such URL rewrites by default. We didn’t do it because it is not required for most usage scenarios (in most cases one product is added to many categories)

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