Customize Recommendations | Magento 2 Developer Documentation

When you install the Product Recommendations module, Magento creates the ProductRecommendationsLayout directory. This directory contains template files that you can customize to change how the recommendations appear on your storefront. Specifically, you can modify or override the following template:

<your theme>/ProductRecommendationsLayout/web/template/recommendations.html

For more information about how to modify template files in Magento, refer to the template overview.

If you do modify the recommendations.html file, you must preserve the following tags within the file to ensure Magento can successfully collect metrics for the recommendations on your storefront:

Tag	Use
`<div data-bind="attr : {'data-unit-id' : unitId }"...</div>`	Collects view events.
`<a data-bind="attr : {'data-sku' : sku, 'data-unit-id'}"...</a>`	Collects click events. Note: If you add any anchor tags, you must include these attributes.

In addition to the recommendations.html file, the ProductRecommendationsLayout directory contains the following subdirectories:

Directory	Purpose
`layout`	Contains `*.xml` files for each page type
`templates`	Contains files that call the fetch and render scripts
`web/js`	Contains the JavaScript files that fetch and render recommendations for your store
`web/template`	Contains the template for the `magento/product-recommendations` module

Customize recommendation unit positioning

When you create a recommendation, you specify where you want the recommendation unit to appear on your page. For example, you can select to place the recommendations either at the top or the bottom of the main content container. However, you can customize this placement. If you created a recommendation unit for Page Builder, you can use the Page Builder editing environment to customize where you want the recommendation unit to display on the page. For all other page types, you can edit the *.xml files responsible for the layout. Magento generates these *.xml files when you create a recommendation.

Change to the layout directory:

 cd `<your theme>/ProductRecommendationsLayout/layout`

The following table lists the XML files present in this directory:

Filename	Page
`catalog_category_view.xml`	Category
`catalog_product_view.xml`	Product detail
`checkout_cart_index.xml`	Cart
`checkout_onepage_success.xml`	Checkout
`cms_index_index.xml`	Home

The filenames in the layout directory might be different if your store uses third-party extensions.

Let’s modify the catalog_product_view.xml file so that the recommendation unit appears after the product image on the product detail page. Before you customize this XML file, let’s take a look at the file and understand the sections you will need to modify:

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
     <referenceBlock name="page.wrapper">
         <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" before="-" name="product_recommendations_fetcher" template="Magento_ProductRecommendationsStorefront::fetcher.phtml" />
     </referenceBlock>
     <body>
         <referenceBlock name="main.content">
             <block class="Magento\ProductRecommendationsStorefront\Block\Renderer" after="-" name="product_recommendations_product_below_content" template="Magento_ProductRecommendationsStorefront::renderer.phtml">
                 <arguments>
                     <argument name="pagePlacement" xsi:type="string">below-main-content</argument>
                 </arguments>
             </block>
         </referenceBlock>
     </body>
 </page>

In the above snippet, the main.content reference block indicates the recommendation unit will be placed somewhere relative to that element. Its block element contains the after="-" attribute, which specifies that the recommendation unit will be displayed on the page after the main content block.

Let’s modify this file by specifying a different content block.

You will change the reference block name from main.content to product.info.media.

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
     <referenceBlock name="page.wrapper">
         <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" before="-" name="product_recommendations_fetcher" template="Magento_ProductRecommendationsStorefront::fetcher.phtml" />
     </referenceBlock>
     <body>
         <referenceBlock name="product.info.media">
             <block class="Magento\ProductRecommendationsStorefront\Block\Renderer" after="-" name="product_recommendations_product_below_content" template="Magento_ProductRecommendationsStorefront::renderer.phtml">
                 <arguments>
                     <argument name="pagePlacement" xsi:type="string">below-main-content</argument>
                 </arguments>
             </block>
         </referenceBlock>
     </body>
 </page>

This change results in your recommendation unit appearing after the product image on the product detail page. If you want the recommendation unit to appear before the product.info.media, change the after="-" attribute to before="-". The pagePlacement argument is an internal argument that should not be modified.

Refer to layout overview for more information about the types of blocks on the page.