Magento 2 Add category path to product page

Question

How do I add category to breadcrumbs on products page so it says Home -> Category -> Lenovo Thinkpad

From the Admin panel I've set

Use Categories Path for Product URLs -> YES

But it only affected my url path.

Even thow I go directly to Rootategory -> Components -> Lenovo Thinkpad It stil says Home -> Lenovo ThinkPad

I've already checked this:

• Magento 2 Get Full Category Path for product
• Magento 2 some Product URLs show Category path
• How to get category id by category path in Magento 2?
• Get product path from id with category path in url

Answer 1

The inclusion of categories in the breadcrumbs is the default behavior in Magento > 2.3, however, it is tightly coupled with categories' 'Include in menu' option. If you choose not to include the category in the menu, then it will not show up in the breadcrumbs trail.

Also, if you directly access the product (and not navigate through categories to get to it), then it will show no category breadcrumbs trail (which is actually correct, you didn't use the categories, so there is no reason to have them in the breadcrumbs).

However, if you are not using Magento>2.3, then you will have to customly add the breadcrumbs. I found this module https://github.com/EaDesgin/magento2-full-path-category-product-breadcrumb which might help you with this. I didn't use it myself, but looks promissing.

Answer 2

In this tutorial, I will show you how to display products of a specific category on a home page.

• Step 1: Please go to the Magento 2 admin panel > Product > Categories

• Step 2: Open the desired category then find the category ID like below image. Please take note of the category ID value, you will need to use in the next step.

• Step 3: In Magento 2 admin panel, please go to Content > Elements > Page > Choose desired Homepage

• Step 4.Open the content tab and insert the following HTML code

  {{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”4″ template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}}

If you want to display a specific number of column in product listing, you can use the following code:

{{block type=”catalog/product_list” column_count=”4″ category_id=”4″ template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}}

• Step 5. Open Content > Elements > Blocks > Add New Blocks
• Step 6. Specify Block name as “catalog/product_list” allow the Block by choosing the YES/No for “Enable Block”