Magento – Recently Viewed products issue in Magento V2.1.3

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Today I configured the Recently Viewed products in my local website, It is showing When Customer Login in front store otherwise it's not showing.

Is it Customer Session based or It will shown every Customer (Guest, General..etc)?

I want to show Recently Viewed products to everyone how can I configure this?

Any help?

Best Answer

Lets take an example for homepage. if you want to show "Recently Viewed Products" on your homepage follow below steps :

Login to your admin panel
Click on content - > Blocks - > Find Homepage Block
Click on Homepage Block and edit then toggle show/hide editor , You will see insert widget option there
Click on insert widget select "Recently Viewed Products" from dropdown , add number of product to display (ex - 5)
Select template from dropdown then click on insert widget
Click on save Block then go to the front side on homepage . View any product
Back to the homepage you will see "Recently Viewed Product" over there.

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Magento – recently viewed products not showing for guest users

You could try this solution from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15682483/how-to-get-recently-view-product-for-guest-user-in-magento

Override: class Mage_Reports_Block_Product_Viewed

Add this function:

   protected function _toHtml() {

/*   if ($this->_hasViewedProductsBefore() === false) {
    return '';
} */

$this->setDisplayMinimalPrice('1');
$collection = $this->_getRecentProductsCollection();

$hasProducts = (bool)count($collection);
//        if (is_null($this->_hasViewedProductsBefore())) {
//           Mage::getSingleton('reports/session')->setData('viewed_products', $hasProducts);
//        }
if ($hasProducts) {
    $this->setRecentlyViewedProducts($collection);
}

return parent::_toHtml();
}

Magento – Magento 2. How to add recently viewed products programmatically

You can create a new static block and call it in your phtml file, So do the following step : Navigate Content->Blocks = create a new block and add recently viewed products widget in it and save the block and call in in your phtml file using following code:

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('Magento\Cms\Block\Block')->setBlockId('your_block_Identifier')->toHtml();?>

clear your cache and refresh the page.

Done !

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