Change URL of featured products to link to non-canonical URL

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Product links generated by the featured products and recently viewed widgets are pointing to non-canonical product URLs instead of the clean default product URL. The example given shows Shopify appending tracking/query parameters such as pr_prod_strat, pr_rec_pid, pr_ref_pid, and pr_seq, which appear to come from recommendation logic rather than the product’s standard path.

Key issue:

  • Current widget link: /products/arti san-mango-wood-nibble-bowl?...
  • Desired link: /products/artisan-mango-wood-nibble-bowl
  • Goal: remove the extra query-string parameters and use the normal canonical product URL.

Context:

  • The issue affects featured products and recently viewed products widgets.
  • The store is using the Prestige theme on Shopify.

Status:

  • No solution or confirmed fix is provided in the post.
  • The question remains open: how to prevent Shopify/theme widgets from outputting parameterized recommendation URLs.
Summarized with AI on March 9. AI used: gpt-5.4.
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Hi,

On my product pages I have the featured products and recently viewed product widgets.

Both of these widgets automatically display products, however, they link to a strange URL for the product they link to, not the original URL. As a result, these widgets link to a canonical version of the URL.

As an example, the URL for one product this widget links to is: /products/artisan-mango-wood-nibble-bowl?pr_prod_strat=collection_fallback&pr_rec_pid=6252827541699&pr_ref_pid=6249741844675&pr_seq=uniform

However, I want it to link to: /products/artisan-mango-wood-nibble-bowl

Essentially stripping out the garbage in the URL.

Does anyone know how to stop Shopify from doing this and link to just the normal product URL?

I’m using Prestige Theme.

Thanks!