Remove breadcrumb from shop 'homepage'

@splashingpixels – That solution wasn’t working for me, but I figured out why in the meantime. The solution code you offered in the first reply is working indeed, but in my case it had to be placed in header.php (themefile) instead of functions.php. As told I tried that before, but entered it outside an if-statement where is had to be inside, so that’s why it wasn’t working.

Conclusion:
remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_main_content', 'woocommerce_breadcrumb', 20, 0)

is working fine, but you might have to insert it in another file then functions.php (and properly insert it of course 😉 )

“You on the other hand seem to want to remove the default breadcrumb completely so you can replace it with Yoast’s breadcrumb…”
That’s why I used your code without ‘if ( is_home() )’ statement. Yoast breadcrumb has nothing to do with it, these work perfectly on our site, as I told before. Your code except the if statement wasn’t working in functions.php, but it DID WORK in header.php, that’s all I said in my last post before this one to help others having this issue too. So thanks again for your piece of code, we are very happy with it.

I eventually found the solution for removing the default breadcrumbs (from ALL pages though, not just the home one as the OP requested) and replacing them with the Yoast WP SEO ones instead – see this thread for details:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-woocommerce-breadcrumbs-with-yoast-seo-ones

James 🙂

To change hueyapan’s solution up a little. I noticed in my wootheme that the breadcrumbs style was calling #breadcrumbs and not .breadcrumbs so I used:

.home #breadcrumbs {
    display: none;
}

And it worked.

This worked best for me:

add_action('template_redirect', 'remove_shop_breadcrumbs' );
function remove_shop_breadcrumbs(){

	if (is_shop())
		remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_main_content', 'woocommerce_breadcrumb', 20, 0);

}

remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_main_content', 'woocommerce_breadcrumb', 20, 0 );

In your theme’s functions.php

This is a method to hide the breadcrumbs by adding this code to custom.css :

.home #breadcrumbs {
    display: none;
}

This is not recommended. What it does is just hide the text. But the breadcrumbs are still executed, so you still get a huge blank empty space gap which represented the breadcrumbs. It is not good enough. Editing the functions.php as described below is preferred.

Okay, I am made to understand that if you want to remove breadcrumbs, ONLY from your homepage add one of this to your functions.php:

Option 1: If you are using a default homepage, use this:

if ( is_home() ) {
     remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_main_content', 'woocommerce_breadcrumb', 20, 0);
}

Option 2: If you are using a static page , use this:

if ( is_front_page() ) {
     remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_main_content', 'woocommerce_breadcrumb', 20, 0);
}

I am using a static page. I tried the code above, but it doesn’t work.
It is supposed to work, according to all WordPress help documents, it is supposed to return “true” that it is a static page and then execute the remove breadcrumbs. But it doesn’t work. The static page I used has no title, as this was done to prevent getting 2 Home button on the Top Menu. I tried a different static page with a title, but it still didn’t work.

So, any better tricks?