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Flexy Breadcrumb

Flexy Breadcrumb is a lightweight, responsive, and SEO-optimized breadcrumb plugin that makes navigating page hierarchies effortless.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.3.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 4.6 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update1 Oct 20261mo ago
Active installations10K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.7 / 5 from 20 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Flexy Breadcrumb version 1.3.1 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Flexy Breadcrumb by PressTigers is a clean, robust, and accessible breadcrumb navigation system for WordPress sites. By using this plugin, you can display breadcrumb navigation anywhere in your website via the [flexy_breadcrumb] shortcode or the flexy_breadcrumb() PHP template tag.

With the help of this plugin, you can customize the text, links, separators, typography, and styling of your breadcrumbs to match your site design seamlessly.

Plugin Features

  • SEO Friendly: Includes valid Schema.org structured data (Microdata and JSON-LD) for rich snippets in Google Search.
  • Easy Implementation: Use anywhere on your site via [flexy_breadcrumb] shortcode or native PHP template tag.
  • Customizable Separator: Easily change the breadcrumb separator character or icon.
  • Custom Home & End Text: Set custom Home text, Home URL, and current page/post end text.
  • Word & Character Limits: Set word or character limits for breadcrumb titles to keep navigation clean.
  • Font Awesome Icon Picker: Choose any Font Awesome icon for the Home item with an integrated icon picker.
  • Global Color Options: Complete color controls for text, links, separators, and background through global settings.
  • Typography Controls: Adjust the font size of the breadcrumb trail with automatic theme font matching.
  • Accessible (A11y): Built with semantic <nav aria-label="Breadcrumbs">, aria-current="page", and screen-reader optimizations.
  • Modern Responsive Layout: Clean Flexbox layout with full right-to-left (RTL) language support out of the box.
  • E-Commerce & CPT Ready: Supports WooCommerce categories and tags, custom post types, hierarchical taxonomies, archives, author pages, search, and 404 pages.
  • GDPR Compliant: No remote external font loading in WordPress Admin.
  • Developer Extensible: Global flexy_breadcrumb() template tag and filter hooks ( flexy_breadcrumb_output, flexy_breadcrumb_enqueue_font_awesome ).

Shortcode

Add this anywhere in your posts, pages, or theme templates:

[flexy_breadcrumb]

PHP Template Tag

g. php ):

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Submit Patches

If you’ve identified a bug or have an improvement, we welcome contributions at our GitHub page for Flexy Breadcrumb. Simply submit a pull request so we can review and merge into the codebase. Happy coding!

Credits

  • jQuery UI (https://jqueryui.com)
  • WP Color Picker Alpha (https://github.com/23r9i0/wp-color-picker-alpha)
  • Font Awesome Icon Picker (https://github.com/itsjavi/fontawesome-iconpicker)
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

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

  • breadcrumb
  • breadcrumbs
  • link
  • menu
  • 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 to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.6 · PHP 7.4
Update activity1 Oct 20261mo ago

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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex

Recent tracked changes

Version1.3.01.3.1
WordPress compatibility7.1.17.1.2
Version1.2.11.3.0
WordPress compatibility6.7.77.1.1
PHP requirement7.27.4
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