Breadcrumbs not working for custom taxonomy all of a sudden

  • Resolved jcsacto

    (@jcsacto)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    Our production environment is working fine, but in staging (which will become production soon) I simply changed the slug on a custom taxonomy and my perfectly working breadcrumbs are now broken across the entire site. The breadcrumbs are now trying to point to a taxonomy search rather than the custom post type page as shown below.

    Below is how it should be working and was working fine before today. Additionally, if I swap the taxonomy with a different custom taxonomy (product-manufacturer instead of product-usage) it works as expected, and these 2 custom taxonomy’s are setup identical to one another, so I’m completely lost on what is going on here.

    And yes, I have all plugins updated and used the Yoast Test plugin to reset indexes and then run the data optimization tool as well (many times I have done this as I basically do it every time I make a change to try and fix this issue).

    I’m hoping you will be able to see what might be happening from the front end with the link I have provided to our staging environment and provide any guidance as I’m out of options at this point.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hi @jcsacto

    We understand you are having some issues with the Yoast SEO breadcrumb output.

    Just to clarify, are these products created with WooCommerce or is it a CPT and custom taxonomy that you’ve created?

    So the breadcrumb pathway should be:

    Home >> Products (/products/) >> Product Usages (/product-usages/name/) >> product (name)

    Could you please provide more details on slug of the custom taxonomy that you changed? Did you change it from product-usage to product-manufacturer and how’d you create the custom taxonomy?

    We understand when you changed the custom taxonomy name, the breadcrumb is now loading a search term such as (?taxonomy=product_usage&term=xxx)

    Could you send us a screenshot of how it appears under your WP admin dashboard > Yoast SEO > Search Appearance > breadcrumbs tab for your CPT?

    Thread Starter jcsacto

    (@jcsacto)

    Hi @mikes41720, these are CPT’s and custom taxonomies built in Pods framework. below is the specific Product Usages custom taxonomy that I changed, it was ‘cobblestones’ but change the slug to ‘natural-stone-cobbles’. Please note I also use a CPT called Product Usages as well so that there is a page for those Product Usage types.

    Below is how I have it setup the breadcrumbs area. Once again, this all worked fine prior and am still surprised that all of the product usages broke versus the one I changed.

    Thanks again, and please let me know if there is more information I can offer to help resolve this.

    Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hi @jcsacto

    So if we’re understanding it correctly, you created a CPT ‘product’ using the Pods Framework plugin. Then you created a custom taxonomy ‘product usage’ (while also having a separate CPT called ‘product usage) to classify the products under.

    Does the custom taxonomy ‘product usage’ and the separate CPT ‘product usage’ have the same slug or are they different?

    When you changed the slug of one of your specific product usages (from /cobblestones/ to /natural-stone-cobbles/), it broke the breadcrumb functionality across ALL product usages (where it appears as a search term now – ?taxonomy=product_usage&term=xxx).

    We’re checking on the link previously provided (/products/arizona-buckskin/) and when selecting ‘Flagstone’, is this opening the custom taxonomy ‘product usage’ or is it something else?

    We’re not familiar if this might be a conflict with the Yoast SEO breadcrumbs output and the Pods framework plugin, but we recommend that you reset the indexables using the Yoast Test Helper plugin and redo the SEO data optimization process, and then try to perform a conflict check and see if the issue still occurs and see if you can identify a potential conflict.

    Thread Starter jcsacto

    (@jcsacto)

    I already tried all of that, I went ahead and just had a PHP developer address the issue via functions.php file.

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