Magento 2.0.8 – Recently Viewed Widget Displaying Nothing

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I installed Magento 2.0.8 without sample data.

When I insert the widget in the static block, it does not show any recently viewed product in home page(after sign in).

why it is not work in cms static block, below content is generated when I insert the widget in the block.

{{widget type="Magento\Reports\Block\Product\Widget\Viewed" page_size="5" template="widget/viewed/content/viewed_grid.phtml"}}

But when I do from content->widget and assign to cms home page main content it worked but it is always displayed on top of the content container even setting sort order 2000.

Note: I have tried with the below three configurations but no luck

store->configuration->catalog->recently viewed/compared->store
store->configuration->catalog->recently viewed/compared->website
store->configuration->catalog->recently viewed/compared->storeview

Best Answer

while you using this code

{{widget type="Magento\Reports\Block\Product\Widget\Viewed" page_size="5" template="widget/viewed/content/viewed_grid.phtml"}}

or insert widget in static block with code you should in Cache Management page disable FPC then reload home page (ctrl + f5).

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Magento 2 Widget – Only Shows One Way Issue

Your widget's block class needs to implement the Magento\Widget\Block\BlockInterface interface.

For example:

use Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template;
use Magento\Widget\Block\BlockInterface;

class WidgetBlock extends Template implements BlockInterface 
{

}

Magento 2.2.0 – Display Recently Viewed Products Block on Product Detail Page

Unfortunately the accepted answer didn't work for me and I wasn't able to use widget instance layout updates in my use case

If for whatever reason you need to add a 'Recently Viewed' products block specifically via layout xml, here's my solution (tested in version 2.2.2):

I decided to use the same class Magento\Catalog\Block\Widget\RecentlyViewed which the 'Recently Viewed' Product widget uses in my block declaration.

<!-- Basic recently viewed products block -->
<block class="Magento\Catalog\Block\Widget\RecentlyViewed" name="recently_viewed" template="Magento_Catalog::product/widget/viewed/grid.phtml" after="-">
    <arguments>
        <argument name="uiComponent" xsi:type="string">widget_recently_viewed</argument>
        <argument name="page_size" xsi:type="number">4</argument>
    </arguments>
</block>

This will render a simple grid with the last 4 products view by the user.

You can configure the block further, just as you would the widget instance:

<!-- Configured recently viewed products block -->
<block class="Magento\Catalog\Block\Widget\RecentlyViewed" name="recently_viewed" template="Magento_Catalog::product/widget/viewed/grid.phtml" after="-">
    <arguments>
        <argument name="uiComponent" xsi:type="string">widget_recently_viewed</argument>
        <argument name="page_size" xsi:type="number">4</argument>
        <!-- 'Product attributes to show' configuration -->
        <argument name="show_attributes" xsi:type="string">name,image,price,learn_more</argument>
        <!-- 'Buttons to show' configuration -->
        <argument name="show_buttons" xsi:type="string">add_to_cart,add_to_compare,add_to_wishlist</argument>
    </arguments>
</block>

One thing to note is that the argument values for show_attributes and show_buttons need to be declared as comma delimited strings (no spaces).

Declaring them as arrays or including spaces next to your comma's won't work due to the way the UI Component parse the content before Knockout renders it.

And since I said Knockout... it should play nicely with FPC, should.

Finally this solution doesn't use the 'action' instruction which appears to have been deprecated

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