Breadcrumbs

A secondary navigation scheme to identify visitors' location

Breadcrumb is a type of secondary navigation scheme that reveals the customers’ location on the website.

Breadcrumbs can improve how a user and Google navigate a website, especially if your website has many products or pages.

Furthermore, breadcrumbs have been proven to decrease bounce rates, keeping users on a website longer.

Lastly, the best benefit of breadcrumbs is SEO-boosting. Google bots use breadcrumbs to categorize and contextualize content in search results more efficiently.

How to configure the Breadcrumbs

Steps

1. In the theme editor (Customize), open the template selector

2. Select the product template you want to add breadcrumbs to.

3. Locate the Breadcrumbs section.

• Text alignment: Set how the breadcrumbs are aligned: Left/Center/Right.

• Remove, hide, or reorder the section if you want

By default, breadcrumbs display the name of the collection that comes first in alphabetical order (if that product is included in multiple collections).

How to creat custom breadcrumbs for individual products

In Sleek, you can set a custom product breadcrumbs for each of your products using metafields.

Steps:

1. Define a Product Metafield in Shopify admin > Settings > Custom data.

• Click the button Add definition to create a new product definition.

• Use any Name you want, and insert the Namespace and key as 'breadcrumb.primary_collection'.

• Select the metafield type as Collection.

• Click Save.

2. In the Product setup, select a collection from a list to display a custom product breadcrumb.

• From Shopify admin > Products, select a product you want to add custom breadcrumbs.

• In the Metafields section, select a collection from your collection list.

• Click Save.

3. Enable the breadcrumbs on your theme editor.

Make sure the Breadcrumbs section is added to your product template and the dynamic data source is linked.