Breadcrumbs for WooCommerce

Description

Breadcrumbs for WooCommerce is a simple WordPress plugin that helps you restyle the WooCommerce breadcrumbs. It also gives you the ability to disable them completely so they no longer display.

By changing the HTML surrounding your breadcrumbs, you’re able to provide better options for styling your breadcrumbs in different ways. For example, the default breadcrumbs simply display links with a separator character. Using Breadcrumbs for WooCommerce, you can change them to display as an unsorted list of links instead.

NOTE: This plugin wont actually style your breadcrumbs for you. It simply gives you the tools to change the HTML that wraps around your breadcrumbs.

Breadcrumbs for WooCommerce gives you the following settings

Breadcrumb separator: This is the separator to use between each breadcrumb
Wrap before: The opening HTML tag to wrap before all your breadcrumbs
Wrap after: The closing HTML tag to wrap after all your breadcrumbs
Before: The opening HTML tag to wrap before each individual breadcrumb
After: The closing HTML tag to wrap after each individual breadcrumb
Home text: The text to use for the ‘Home’ breadcrumb
Home URL: The URL that the ‘Home’ breadcrumb links to

If need be, you can also disable the breadcrumbs completely by unticking the ‘Enable breadcrumbs’ checkbox. This will stop the breadcrumbs from displaying on your site.

If you notice there are a few less breadcrumb options on the settings page than you expected, then you’re mostly likely using a WooThemes Theme. WooTheme themes disable the WooCommerce breadcrumbs in favour of the WooFramework Breadcrumbs. The downside to this is that there aren’t quite as many options that can be changed with the WooFramework Breadcrumbs.

To see some examples of how you can style your WooCommerce Breadcrumbs, check out the plugin homepage.

Installation

Upload the ‘woocommerce-breadcrumbs’ folder to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Go to the ‘Settings > Breadcrumbs for WC’ menu to update the plugin settings

Screenshots

Breadcrumbs for WooCommerce default settings
Breadcrumbs for WooCommerce settings
Breadcrumbs for WooCommerce settings for WooTheme Themes

Faq

I’m not seeing as many options on my settings page as your screenshot

You’re most likely using a WooThemes theme. WooTheme themes disable the WooCommerce breadcrumbs in favour of the WooFramework Breadcrumbs and unfortunately there aren’t as many options that can be configured.

Can I disable the WooCommerce breadcrumbs?

Certainly! On the settings page, simply untick the ‘Enable breadcrumbs’ checkbox and save your settings.

How do I get my breadcrumbs back after disabling them?

The easiest method is just to deactivate the plugin. Alternatively, simply tick the ‘Enable breadcrumbs’ checkbox and save your settings.

Why don’t my breadcrumbs display properly when using the Storefront theme?

Storefront wraps their breadcrumbs with some custom HTML. This means you need to tweak your ‘Breadcrumb separator’, ‘Wrap before’ and ‘Wrap after’ settings. See this support post for more details.

Reviews

Perfect

By myeasymaster on March 1, 2025

Simple and straight, just works as expected!

Excellent, it works

By ftanger on November 25, 2023

I added span tags with this plugin and it worked well

Very helpful

By claraquin on May 30, 2021

Easy to use. I just wanted to get rid of the breadcrumbs at all and have a woo-theme, so I did not have - as you said - many options to style them. But that is okay. Important for me was, to get rid of them. And this works very fine! Thank you.

Just what I needed 🙂

By dietredthunder on June 1, 2020

Download this plugin to do this 🙂 Very useful. The URL that the ‘Home’ breadcrumb links to. Many thanks. DiRT

I'm normally very cut-throat with my reviews. This plugin works perfectly.

By mehlmanmedical (theforwardmale) on February 8, 2020

Works simple, clean, and easy. Thank you. Removes the light grey "Home/Products" breadcrumb from the top of your products page.

As per today 4th August 2018 - It's works!

By webxcrawler on August 4, 2018

As per today 4th August 2018 - It's works!

does not disable breadcrumbs

By bgrmystr on April 11, 2018

If you are looking for a plugin to disable breadcrumbs, this does not do it

works

By jbperkins2 on April 29, 2017

works

Perfect

By Mahdi Sadeghi (mettikoman) on March 15, 2017

this plugin is so good. can some one send me the default properties? before and after contents in plugin setting?

just works

By Marklcm on September 16, 2016

thanks, works as expected

Changelog

1.3.0

Updated plugin name to avoid violating WooCommerce trademark
Added requirement for WooCommerce into plugin header

1.2.0

Fixed issue with text domain loading notice
Updated WC Tested tags

1.1.0

Declare compatibility with WooCommerce HPOS

1.0.8

Moved loading of options from Constructor to help with translations by Falang plugin. Props @sbouey

1.0.7

Fix display of Breadcrumb separator on settings page. Escape attribute when displaying value
Fix breadcrumb removal for Storefront theme as it uses its own hook rather than the default WooCommerce hook

1.0.6

Updated Breadcrumb separator setting to allow html tags
Updated WC Tested tags

1.0.5

Updated WC Tested tags

1.0.4

Removed call to screen_icon() function as it’s now deprecated
Added WC Tested tags to plugin header for compatibility check

1.0.3

Updated version number as the .org directory doesn’t currently update the Last Updated date by simply updating the Tested up to value

1.0.2

Fixed undefined index error due to checkbox sanitization
Fixed misplaced braces

1.0.1

Updated ‘Tested up to’ version to 3.9
Added link to breadcrumb examples

1.0

Initial version. Yay!