WooCommerce: Wrong breadcrumbs displayed

When I set the site up in January with Mantra, the breadcrumbs were all correct.
Now breadcrumbs are wonky on the blog only.
The Blog page shows Domain >> Home (not Blog)
If I open a specific post, it shows domain >> Books >> Postname

It displays it this way if I click on the post title, a Recent posts list link, or the Continue Reading link. If I go into a category, it displays the path to that category and continues with the correct category if I open one of the posts in the Category list. If I open a post via Archives, it shows Books path above again.

Books is the name of a Page in the top menu (not adjacent) and the name of my second category, not the first.
At first I thought this may be a bug in Excerpts as I’d recently changed to using that. But when I turned that off, it didn’t change the above.

Suggestions?

WordPress has no way of knowing which links you clicked on to get to that post, so it displays the first category (alphabetically) in which the post is found.

The latter part of this statement is correct, the first part is debatable. I have this similar problem, where I have a product in WooCommerce that needs to be in a certain three categories, however, the same category is showing up in the breadcrumbs no matter the means of arriving at the product. I also needed the image of the category accessed from to display above the product description, so again I needed to determine from which category archive the product had been accessed by. Thankfully, WordPress does have a way to determine which link was used to access a page: wp_get_referer().

wp_get_referer() returns the url of, you guessed it, the referring URL. In this case, it’d be the category archive page that the user was viewing. In order to achieve my goal, I gathered an array of the categories associated with the product/post, obtained the URL of the previous page, looped through each category and checked to see if the category slug existed in the referring URL. If false, then I continued through the loop. If true, then I could persist with the rest of my code to display the specific category image instead of all three at the same time or even the wrong one. I’m about to try applying this same principle to adjusting the breadcrumbs as well. I’ll let you know what I come up with. My code is below for reference if you think it’ll help.

/**
* Add Category image above a single course view
**/
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_single_product', 'woocommerce_brand_course', 0);
function woocommerce_brand_course(){
    global $post;
    $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'product_cat' );
    $referer = wp_get_referer();
    if(!empty($terms)){
        foreach( $terms as $term){
            $referer_slug = (strpos($referer, $term->slug));

            if(!$referer_slug==false){
                
                $category_name = $term->name;
                $category_thumbnail = get_woocommerce_term_meta( $term->term_id, 'thumbnail_id', true);
                $image = wp_get_attachment_url($category_thumbnail);
                echo '<div class="cat_bundle">';
                echo '<img class="course-brand" src="'.$image.'">';
                echo '</div>';
            }
            else{ }
        }
    }
}

Jonathon J, Your solution worked perfect for a while, but not anymore, maybe is has to do with updates, but I don’t now when this problem occured: the trail showes like this now:
Home / THUIS / Tuinmeubelen / Applebee tuinmeubelen / Applebee AIR lounge / THUIS / Tuinmeubelen / Applebee tuinmeubelen / THUIS / Tuinmeubelen Applebee Air SOFA

When it should be:
Home / THUIS / Tuinmeubelen / Applebee tuinmeubelen / Applebee AIR lounge / Applebee Air SOFA

Is there a simple way to fix this?

Thanks

Hi Jonathon,

can you find a solution for new version of WooCommerce breadcrumb.php? (2.3.0)
In new version there is no such code that you posted above 🙁

We had another look at this and merged the code above with the new breadcrumb file. If anyone is interested, it’s here http://pastebin.com/0PtSbjFT

After the $wrap_before, we cut in with Jonathon’s code, merging the is_single() && get_post_type() == ‘product’ ), so it only shows on single product pages, otherwise it uses the general WooCommerce breadcrumbs. Works well for us, perhaps it can help someone else.

Nice job on the updated solution @Karl. Very much appreciated!

Correction to my issue here.

I’m using Woocommerce, but the breadcrumbs are generated by the Yoast Seo plugin.

Any ideas how to fix this, very frustrating and losing days on end over this.

Thanks guys.

GerBear

All use cache, so i guess this will never work? Is fragment caching needed to do this?

Great! Thank you man!

hi..plz help me i want to category name in variable but still call in woocommerce_breadcrumb(home) this function on product page plz check in this page http://tailord4u.com/product/dark-black-fabric-2/ …help me thank you in advance