How to make product recommendation app photos clickable?

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

Issue: A merchant using Shopify’s free Search & Product Recommendations app wants the product photos in the recommendations section to be clickable to each product page. They note there isn’t even a clear CTA button.

Clarification: The desired action is navigation to the product page (not add-to-cart or image zoom).

Constraints explained: If the recommendations UI is rendered via an app block (theme app extension), its markup/behavior isn’t editable in theme code. If the app relies on theme code, a theme customization could add links—but this varies by app and theme.

Troubleshooting: Check page source and theme templates. If no relevant code is found, it’s likely app-block controlled and not editable.

Options/Next steps:

  • Switch to another app that supports clickable recommendation images out of the box.
  • Submit a feature request to the app developer (may be slow).
  • Replace the app block with a custom implementation using Shopify’s Complementary Products/dev approach and modify it to add links (dev docs link provided).

Status: No built-in solution confirmed. Outcome pending choice between alternative app or custom development.

Summarized with AI on December 30. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hey Paul, you are right I wasn’t specific enough :), i ment the photos to redirect to their product page, we dont have even a clear call to action button option. Its a text.

and again im so grateful with what i have, just asking incase i was missing something ?

couldn’t even find where the app’s cose is located in the edit code ?‍ :laptop: section :sweat_smile: