How to make last breadcrumb item clickable?

Hi,

If your theme is using the standard WooCommerce breadcrumbs, then they don’t provide a way to make the last breadcrumb clickable, which also means that my plugin can’t do that either.

With that said, it really doesn’t make sense to make it clickable anyway, as the last breadcrumb simply shows the name of the current page that you’re on. If it was clickable, it would only link back to itself.

As an example, take a look at this screenshot of a WooCommerce product page:
https://share.getcloudapp.com/04u2XwD0

The last breadcrumb in the example above is “Canon EOS Rebel SL2 Kit” which displays on the Single Product page for that particular product. If that was a clickable link, it would simply link back to the exact same page that you’re currently viewing, which doesn’t provide any useful functionality.

I hope that helps.

Thanks for your response @ahortin.
For SEO purposes, it really make sense.
Isn’t there any way at all man?

It could be done, but you’d have to replace the WooCommerce Breadcrumbs with your own custom Breadrumbs.

Even for SEO purposes, it really doesn’t make sense to add a link to the last breadcrumb. It will decrease usability as it implies that clicking the link will take you somewhere (since it’s a link), when it actual fact, it would only take you back to the exact same page. This basically makes the link useless.

One of the recommended answers on this Google Search Console page says:

In addition to the general structured data guidelines, Social Profile markup should create one or more breadcrumb trails without a crumb for the target page if it’s possible to find the page within a larger set of search results.

This implies that since the individual product page can be found easily through navigating the other shop pages, it’s not necessary to link that last crumb.

Thanks for your helpful & precise answer @ahortin.

No probs. Glad I was able to help ??