How to: Breadcrumb function for Wordpress

Thanks for this one.

Just a suggestion: use single_cat_title(); instead of the_category(’title_li=’); because if you have posts listed which belongs to more than one category, the output is a little bit strange…

This would be great if it could be implemented into the next version of openbook! Maybe enabled/disabled with a control panel checkbox!

This is a good way to handle breadcrumbs, particularly for theme coders (not a good idea to have the theme depend on the NavXT plugin). If you intend to have breadcrumb navigation more broadly however, you shouldn’t forget about a few other possible pages, for instance:

elseif (is_tag()) {single_tag_title();}
elseif (is_day()) {echo”Archive for “; the_time(’F jS, Y’);}
elseif (is_month()) {echo”Archive for “; the_time(’F, Y’);}
elseif (is_year()) {echo”Archive for “; the_time(’Y');}
elseif (is_author()) {echo”Author Archive”;}
elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) {echo “Blog Archives”;}
elseif (is_search()) {echo”Search Results”;}

Thanks! I like to iplement “no plugin” solutions on my blog!

It’s doesn’t work for my theme. The page would come up blank after I put in the function on my single.php page

I copied and pasted my single.php code here..
http://www.thewebpreneur.ca/single-code/

Ah at last, found it. Was looking all over the internet for this code, only found plugins. Thanks

Thanks for this! I wanted to implement it into my theme rather than use a plugin. I think breadcrumbs are a real treat for visitors. Kind Regards, Betty

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I had been using “the_category(’title_li=’)” and it did give me a weird readout when a post belonged to 2 categories.

I tried using the “single_cat_title();” but nothing displayed. Research pointed to this function returning nothing when a single page was being displayed… useless to us in this case.

I settled back on using the_category(). I can now display all categories this post belongs to in the breadcrumb. I add a separator (in this case &):
the_category(’ & ‘)

No my breadcrumb looks like this:

Home -> Category1 & Category2 & CategoryN -> page_title

All I can say is Thank you thank you and thank you! I am amazed that WordPress has left out this very popular function by default. The less plugins a person can use the better. I have recently been designing WordPress themes and I have to say that this little snippet of coding you came up with is well worth the effort.

Only one little thing that I noticed though….when I created and assigned a “page” for the home page and also created another as the “blog” page for a theme I just did, I noticed that the breadcrumbs was blank for this one “blog” page but worked for regular pages, categories, home, etc. Hope that made sense?

Still…. it’s a great function you did.

Here is the breadcrumb wrapped in a unordered list with each link/category as a list item:

function the_breadcrumb() {
if (!is_home()) {
echo ”;
echo ‘‘.bloginfo(’name’).’‘;
if (is_category() || is_single()) {
echo ”;
the_category(”);
echo ”;
if (is_single()) {
echo ”.the_title().”;
}
} elseif (is_page()) {
echo ”.the_title().”;
}
echo ”;
}
}

Thank you so much – I’ve been looking all over for this! Elegant, easy –

Just an FYI to replace the >> with the ASCII code if you’re pasting into functions.php via Dreamweaver…

function the_breadcrumb() {
if (!is_home()) {
echo ‘‘;
echo ‘Home’;
echo “ » “;
if (is_category() || is_single()) {
the_category(’title_li=’);
if (is_single()) {
echo ” » “;
the_title();
}
} elseif (is_page()) {
echo the_title();
}
}
}

@Bill

I am not exactly sure how the markup is in the example you used but from the description he gave, This should work.
ul li { color: black; background: white; }
ul { color: black; background: white; }

I am new to WP, but old with Joomla and can’t believe this is not standard functionality of WP.
Thanks for sharing this code. I will use it in all my wordpress designs.

Tx, for the function

but i notice i can’t use it twice

I would like to put it in the header and in the footer?

Or does it only work within the loop??

Do you have a breadcrumb function based on the url and just exclude some segments???