Remove link from the Yoast SEO breadcrumbs site wide

yoast_seo_breadcrumb_remove_link.php

<?php
/********* DO NOT COPY THE PARTS ABOVE THIS LINE *********/

/*
 * Remove a link from the Yoast SEO breadcrumbs
 * Credit: https://timersys.com/remove-link-yoast-breadcrumbs/
 * Last Tested: Mar 12 2017 using Yoast SEO 4.4 on WordPress 4.7.3
 */

add_filter( 'wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link' ,'wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link', 10 ,2);

function wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link( $link_output , $link ){
    $text_to_remove = 'Products';
  
    if( $link['text'] == $text_to_remove ) {
      $link_output = '';
    }
 
    return $link_output;
}

yoast_seo_breadcrumb_remove_postname.php

<?php
/********* DO NOT COPY THE PARTS ABOVE THIS LINE *********/

/*
 * Remove the last breadcrumb, the post name, from the Yoast SEO breadcrumbs
 * Previous breadcrumb link will become text
 * Credit: Jason @ http://thejasonjones.com/wordpress-seo-breadcrumbs-tweaks/
 * Last Tested: Jun 11 2018 using Yoast SEO 7.6.1 on WordPress 4.9.6
 */

add_filter( 'wpseo_breadcrumb_links', 'wpseo_breadcrumb_remove_postname' );
function wpseo_breadcrumb_remove_postname( $links ) {
	if( sizeof($links) > 1 ){
		array_pop($links);
	}
	return $links;
}

yoast_seo_breadcrumb_remove_title_only.php

<?php
/********* DO NOT COPY THE PARTS ABOVE THIS LINE *********/

/*
 * Remove the last breadcrumb, the post title, from the Yoast SEO breadcrumbs
 * Previous breadcrumb will remain linked
 * Credit: David @ https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/how-to-hide-the-title-part-in-the-breadcrumb-im-using-yoast-seo/#post-614239
 * Last Tested: Apr 11 2020 using Yoast SEO 13.4.1 on WordPress 5.4
 */

add_filter('wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link', 'remove_breadcrumb_title' );
function remove_breadcrumb_title( $link_output) {
	if(strpos( $link_output, 'breadcrumb_last' ) !== false ) {
		$link_output = '';
	}
   	return $link_output;
}

Modified this to target based on url. :)

<?php
add_filter( 'wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link', 'wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link', 10 ,2);
function wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link( $link_output , $links ){
	$page_src = $links['url'];
	$last_word = basename( $page_src );
	$text_to_remove = 'shop';

	if( $last_word == $text_to_remove ) {
	  $link_output = '';
	}

	return $link_output;
}
?>

How do I change the yoast_seo_breadcrumb_remove_link.php to accept 2 words? I have a multilingual website using Products and Producten?

add_filter( 'wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link' ,'wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link', 10 ,2);
function wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link( $link_output , $link ) {

    $text_to_remove = [
    	'Products',
    	'Товари'
];

if ( in_array( $link['text'], $text_to_remove, true ) ) {
	return;
}

    return $link_output;
}

How can I delete 'Products' in Json-ld?
When I set yoast_seo_breadcrumb_remove_link.php, I can delete 'Products' in breadcrumbs frontend, but 'Products' still remain in Json-ld.

@meisterx2020 I think it's late to answer, but may be useful for others.

With 'wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link' hook you may change only the front end breadcrumbs output (i.e., HTML markdown). The filter used in another generation process than JSON-LD.

With 'wpseo_breadcrumb_links' hook you may filter the source data of the breadcrumbs: both for front end and JSON-LD. Worth to mention that autogenerated array $links has another type of values than shown in 'Append link' example https://gist.github.com/amboutwe/ea0791e184668a5c7bd7bbe357c598e9#file-yoast_seo_breadcrumb_append_link-php

LINKS
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [text] => Home
            [url] => http://example.com/
            [allow_html] => 1
        )
    [1] => Array
        (
            [id] => 62
        )
    [2] => Array
        (
            [term] => WP_Term Object
                (
                    [term_id] => 33
                    [name] => Водоснабжение и канализация
                    [slug] => water-supply
                    [term_group] => 0
                    [term_taxonomy_id] => 33
                    [taxonomy] => category
                    [description] => 
                    [parent] => 0
                    [count] => 1
                    [filter] => raw
                )
        )
    [3] => Array
        (
            [term] => WP_Term Object
                (
                    [term_id] => 44
                    [name] => Кольца Евро железобетонные
                    [slug] => rings-caps-bottoms
                    [term_group] => 0
                    [term_taxonomy_id] => 44
                    [taxonomy] => category
                    [description] => 
                    [parent] => 33
                    [count] => 1
                    [filter] => raw
                )
        )
    [4] => Array
        (
            [id] => 1
        )
)

You're able to remove an item from breadcrumbs source completely or add/replace an item using the structure shown in examples.

$breadcrumb[] = array(
            'url' => 'your.new.url',
            'text' => 'Page Name',
        );

Is there way to change the parent category url to custom url.
Example :
Home >> Parent Category >> child category >> post
What I need
Home >> Parent Category >> child category >> post
I want to change parent category to custom one.

Thanks

Any ideas how to change the pathway for posts of a particular category only? So all posts in my 'Current' category would link back to a URL page on my site, rather than to the Current archive page.

Many thanks

Modified it to only remove the href link and keep the breadcrumb :

` add_filter( 'wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link' ,'wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link', 10 ,2);
function removeBreadcrumbLink($link_output , $link){
$link_output = str_replace('href="'.$link['url'].'"' , "" , $link_output);
return str_replace('data-wpel-link="internal"' , "" , $link_output);
}
function wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link( $link_output , $link ){
$breadcrumbsLinkToBeRemoved = [
'Titles to be removed'
];
if(in_array($link['text'] , $breadcrumbsLinkToBeRemoved )) {
return removeBreadcrumbLink($link_output , $link );
}

    return $link_output;
}`

Can someone help me to delete the subcategory in all breadcrumbs? I need this to custom display posts on my theme, but I dont want to have access the subcategory anywhere.

Example :
Home >> Parent Category >> child category >> post
What I need
Home >> Parent Category >> post

And on some other pages I need to remove the parent category as well:

Example :
Home >> Parent Category >> child category >> post
What I need
Home >> post

I thank you a lot.

Looks like yoast_breadcrumb doesn't honor the toggle off for the category path prefix on breadcrumbs links.

Any suggestion to fix this ? Ideally should be part of Yoast itself.

I am wondering if there is a way to disable the parent link from the child page.

Home >> About >> Our Council

Technically 'About' is not a Page, its the parent menu item that leads to 'Our Council'

Right now I'm using jquery to remove the link. It's nice because my breadcrumbs are intact but I don't like that I see it flash for a second with the link before the jquery removes the href.

$( "#breadcrumbs a:contains('About')" ).removeAttr( "href" );

I've thought about using something like this

$content = preg_replace("/(.*?)</a>/","",$content);

but would need to really understand the plugin code to make something like this work.

Your code does almost what I want. Your code removes the link completely. I just want it to remove the href. I still like having the path. I just don't want that parent item click able. Thanks!

add_filter( 'wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link' ,'wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link', 10 ,2);

function wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link( $link_output , $link ){
$text_to_remove = [ 'About', 'Training'];
if ( in_array( $link['text'], $text_to_remove, true ) ) {return;}
return $link_output;
}

I was able to figure my question out based on the previous responses. Thanks for sharing the initial post. Was very helpful.

add_filter( 'wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link' ,'wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link', 10 ,2);

function removeBreadcrumbLink($link_output , $link) {
$link_output = str_replace('href="'.$link['url'].'"' , "" , $link_output);
return str_replace('data-wpel-link="internal"' , "" , $link_output);
}
function wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link( $link_output , $link ) {
if(strpos( $link_output, 'breadcrumb_last' ) !== false ) {$link_output = '';}
$breadcrumbsLinkToBeRemoved = ['About', 'Scouting', 'Training', 'Resources', 'Giving'];
if(in_array($link['text'] , $breadcrumbsLinkToBeRemoved )) {
return removeBreadcrumbLink($link_output , $link );
}
return $link_output;
}

@korkoruz Both versions of your code remove the parent category completely, but I thought it should leave the category in the breadcrumb but just remove the href. Did I misunderstand, or is there a bug with your code?