Comments on: Create a Breadcrumb Trail

By: Jackie Peters

Jackie Peters — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:09:16 +0000

Thanks for posting! This worked better than anything else I've looked at. My recent post DYMO 2 Cents Campaign

By: Miklas

Miklas — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:29:33 +0000

Is there a way to get the breadcrumb in reverse order? So it reads "posttitle <- subcategory <- category <- home" instead of the usual left to right?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:32:11 +0000

To specifically get the menu labels from my page menu editor you would use the following to access the specific page menu label:

get_post_meta($pid, 'menulabel', true)

So on the final code above you could replace line 10 with

$bcarray[] = " » ".get_post_meta($pid, 'menulabel', true)." ";

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:31:15 +0000

Thank you for this post – I am looking forward to digging into the code!

I am currently working with your Page Menu Editor plugin and have alternate (less verbose) page titles defined for my nav menus – will the breadcrumb function above use the alternate titles as defined in your plugin, or will it use the default WP page titles? If the latter, is there any way to use the alternate titles in a breadcrumb?

By: YoU

YoU — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:39:33 +0000

Thank you very much Sarah! It works like a charm! I added the code just after the line 23 (instead of remove it) and it showed the post title after the category name. I implement the style to make it like an apple.com one, you can have a look at it on my test bed (at the bottom).

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:34:22 +0000

Sure, to add the post title at the end, on line 23 of the final code above, remove the substr() line (just remove the whole line), and replace it with

$pdata = get_post($pid);

$trail .= "".$pdata->post_title." ";

and that should do what you need

By: YoU

YoU — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:17:27 +0000

Love the tutorial!

PS. I'm not a coder, is there any way to add post title after the category name? You omit this part because of it may create a long breadcrumb trail.

By: Ken the tech

Ken the tech — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:02:49 +0000

Thanks! You give me the idea of breadcrumb and of course the solution. Nice tutorial

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By: Portland Web Design

Portland Web Design — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:06:12 +0000

Wow, excellent documentation on the process. Most people I know that are set up on WordPress are strictly using pre-built themes and plugins since they're not technically apt. Great resource for the custom developer or newbie tweaker.

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:24:33 +0000

Thanks for this post – tried it out and got my breadcrumb working perfectly! Did a few tweaks here and there and I'm so pleased with the result. Really am glad I stumbled upon this post.

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By: Will Anderson

Will Anderson — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:24:16 +0000

You have a good point with the extra db call. Since this is presumably going in functions.php I guess hard coding the URL wouldn't be the end of the world.