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BreadcrumbsPress

Breadcrumbs based navigation, fully responsive and customizable, supporting post types, all types of archives, 404 pages, search results, and more.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.2
Current version4.8
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.2
Minimum stackWP 6.7 · PHP 8.0
Directory statusactive
Last directory update24 Oct 20269d ago
Active installations90Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records BreadcrumbsPress version 4.8 as active, updated 9d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.2.

Overview

About this plugin

Breadcrumbs based navigation, fully responsive and customizable, supporting post types, all types of archives, 404 pages, search results, and support for third-party plugins.

org and Google specifications), and it is recognized and accepted by Google and all other popular search engines.

Quick Overview Video

Block Editor Support

The plugin adds a Block for use in the Block Editor (Gutenberg Editor). The block is available under Widgets. And, this block shows breadcrumbs for the current page or post, or whatever else it is placed in, so it will work inside the block templates too.

Breadcrumbs Generated by the Plugin

With BreadcrumbsPress you can generate breadcrumbs for WordPress powered website. The plugin can generate breadcrumbs for all types of URLs in WordPress, with support for bbPress (including various Dev4Press plugins for bbPress), BuddyPress and WooCommerce. Here is the list included URL types plugins supports:

  • WordPress Front Page (including Home/Posts pages)
  • WordPress 404 Page
  • WordPress Posts and Pages
  • WordPress Custom Post Types (Single and Archives)
  • WordPress Categories and Tags
  • WordPress Custom Taxonomies
  • WordPress Date Archives
  • WordPress Author Archives
  • WooCommerce Store
  • WooCommerce Products (Single and Shop)
  • WooCommerce Categories and Tags
  • WooCommerce Profile (with support for subpages)
  • BuddyPress Activity Directory
  • BuddyPress Groups Directory
  • BuddyPress Users Directory
  • BuddyPress Group (with support for subpages)
  • BuddyPress User Profiles (with support for subpages)
  • bbPress Forums, Topics and Replies
  • bbPress Topic Views
  • bbPress Topic Tags
  • bbPress User Profile (with support for subpages)
  • bbPress GD Members Directory

The plugin has a wide range of settings to control the visibility of breadcrumbs on various page types, options to change the path used for breadcrumbs for posts and terms, styling and markup settings. Plugin includes font with icons (built into CSS) with separator icons and few additional icons for home page, store and forums main crumbs.

Integration into WordPress

Breadcrumbs can be added using PHP function or shortcode. Or, you can hook the plugin to any action in WordPress, or alternatively, plugin can automatically integrate with some popular themes (themes that provide actions/filters rich frameworks). This includes currently:

  • GeneratePress
  • Kadence
  • OceanWP
  • Astra
  • StoreFront
  • Blocksy
  • Genesis Framework

More themes will be added in the future, but only themes that have actions placed inside templates to expand or changing the theme.

Plugin Pro Edition

  • Multi breadcrumbs: generate multiple breadcrumbs paths to a post
  • Menu breadcrumbs: show a WordPress menu as a breadcrumb
  • Tweaks: hide some crumbs if the breadcrumb list is long

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Tweaks: shorten the displayed title for individual crumbs if too long.

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WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • breadcrumb
  • breadcrumbs
  • crumb
  • dev4press
  • navigation
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.2
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.7 · PHP 8.0
Update activity24 Oct 20269d ago

“Tested up to” is directory metadata supplied by the plugin author. WP PlugIndex does not turn an older declaration into a claim that the plugin is incompatible.

Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex

Recent tracked changes

Version4.74.8
WordPress compatibility7.0.47.2
WordPress requirement6.46.7
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