Once upon a time there were two kids named Hansel and Gretel. They both were the only children of their parents. But their wicked step mother decides to send them to woods because they used to eat too much. These children being smart had collected white pebbles and places them on their way, so that they could reach back to their home safely and they successfully does. Seeing this, their shocking and wicked mother again sends them to the woods but this time they are out with pebbles and so they find a bread and put small pieces of them on the way but meanwhile the birds eats away them and they are lost. Well…well…well…..you all might be wondering and might have checked out uptil now that which site have we opened? There is no relevance to the topic mentioned here and ultimately you might be little irritated too. But hey don’t worry, you are absolutely on the correct way 😛 . (Unlike Hansel and Gretel). I guess this story was the greatest inspiration to Apple.Inc. Yes, we are talking about nothing else but the breadcrumbs on an apple’s site.
So, What are Breadcrumbs?
Breadcrumbs are also known as “breadcrumb trail”. It is a navigation trail that allows visitors to understand their current location into a website. Here is an example of one of the well-known and my favorite 😛 “Web-Site Apple which uses awesome breadcrumb trail”.
There are bunch of advantages of using breadcrumbs on your site:
- Usability: It gives customers a user-friendly feel and also indicates surfing around through your site
- Easy to backtrack: If your website is created out of many levels then it can render the exact navigations in a far more easy way.
- SEO: The look for google bot engines will understand your breadcrumbs and add them to the google search page.
Installing Breadcrumbs :-
If you are using the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin then this plugin have inbuilt Breadcrumbs option to activate the Breadcrumbs Tail
follow the below mentioned simple steps to install Breadcrumb :-
Step 1 : Enable the Breadcrumbs
You can allow breadcrumbs by directing to SEO >> Internal Links via the sidebar of your WordPress dashboard. You will see a Screenshot like this —->
Step 2 : Finding the Perfect PHP File
Activate breadcrumbs you need to add a little bit PHP code into the right PHP file in your theme.
First decide which pages you want breadcrumbs to Show on — for most of you page Name is Single.php File. If you don’t know your PHP file name, don’t worry calm down 😛 Download the awesome What the File plugin. This plugin navigates to any blog post page on your site and you will see “What the File” has appeared in your WordPress Howdy toolbar.
Step 3 : Installing the Code
Now this time you copy that code and you need to paste into your located PHP file.
1 2 3 4 5 6 | yoast_breadcrumb(' ',' '); } ?> |
Hmm.! This above Breadcrumb Tutorial shows how to install Breadcrumbs using WordPress SEO By Yoast Plugin. If you don’t have this plugin but never worry :P, here is the another WordPress plugin called Breadcrumb NavXT to enable the Breadcrumb below the post. So let’s see the installation of Breadcrumb using this Plugin.
Installing Breadcrumb using Breadcrumb NavXT Plugin
Download the plugin and just activate the Breadcrumb NavXT plugin and simply copy that code and paste into your located PHP file.
So, this is all the tutorial all about. I wish and hope that you’ll find this tutorial helpful and you will surely try it on your own. In case you are amidst any confusion or a problem than get to me and I assure you to put my best to get you out of the same.
Our next article will be based on “How to design breadcrumbs using CSS”. So stay eager, stay hungry and stay foolish..!!
Enjoy.!!
It was such a nice post. Keep sharing. Thanks
Hello Manish,
Thanks For your Feedback.!
keep Visiting and Sharing 😉
-Mosam
It’s very nice tips ! Thank you for sharing with us !
Hello Bishnu,
Thanks for the Stopping By and Sharing your thoughts.!
Keep Visiting and Sharing your Views. 😉
-Mosam
I use Genesis theme and its same process as you explained in this article. Are there any downsides to using Breadcrumbs on a site?
Hello Nwosu,
Yes, genesis have Inbuilt Breadcrumbs so no need to use any third party plugins for breadcrumbs. and No, there is no downside for using Breadcrumbs.So Don’t Worry.. :)BTW.! Thanks for Commenting By
Stay Tuned 🙂
-Mosam
thanks for sharing Mosam 🙂 unfortunately i am not using Yoast but the All in One SEO pack. i think the All in One SEO has a different way of installing breadcrumbs.
Hello marilyn,
thanks for the feedback. i think there is No option for Installing Breadcrumbs using All in One SEO Pack.! BTW.!
Thanks For the Commenting By and Sharing your Views 😉
-Mosam
Hi Mosam,
I like the reference to the story – you made it interesting.
Your tutorial is based on WPSEO by Yoast but I’m using Thesis 2.x and can’t use the plugin. So it won’t apply to the themes that has their own in-built SEO. I’ll have to look for other methods to install breadcums.
Hello Suresh Bro.!
Thanks For the Feedback. yahh there is Problem with WordPRess SEO By Yoast when we are using Thesis 2.0 framework. But don’t Worry My Next Article on installing Breadcrumbs on thesis Framework. BTW! thanks for Stopping by..
Keep Visiting and Sharing 😉
-Mosam
Good Tutorial. Will Definitely try for my WP blog!
Hello Srikanth,
Thanks For the Commenting By. and tell me When you Finish installing Breadcrumbs on your WP Blog and Tell me how looks it. 🙂
-Mosam
I’m using Genesis framework and It is easy to enable Breadcrumbs just by few clicks. Breadcrumbs gives ideas to readers where they are. This will be useful to me when I switch to some other themes.
Hello Sriram,
yes, genesis have inbuilt Breadcrumbs feature.! Btw. thanks for the Stopping by and Sharing your thoughts.
Keep Visiting 😉
-Mosam
Hi Mosam,
This was an excellent article on breadcrumbs. Indeed, I think breadcrumbs are very important because as you said, they aid navigation for the user. I use a WordPress theme called Persuasion by Mysitemyway and luckily breadcrumbs comes as a part of the theme.
Thank you.
Hello Hiten Sir,
A warm Welcome to Our Blog. Thanks for the Feedback and Sharing your thoughts
Keep visiting and Stay tuned 😉 😛
-Mosam
Adding breadcrumbs to your blog can personalize the experience and draw in loyal readers.
Simply set up BCs and reap the rewards.
Thanks for sharing Mosam!
Ryan
Hello Ryan Biddulph,
Thanks For Stopping By and Sharing your Thoughts.! yes you are Absolutely Right Bradcrumbs Provide the Easy navigation for our readers and users 🙂 So, Keep Visiting and Sharing 😉 😛
-Mosam
Hi Akash,
Thanks For Stopping By.!
Keep Visiting.
-Mosam
Hi Mosam,
Nice tutorial for breadcrumbs installation. I am using genesis which have built-in option of breadcrumbs. It will helpful of bloggers those want to add manually on their blogs.
Thanks
Nice Post Mosam,
I use RDFA Breadcrum plugin for inserting breadcrumbs on my blog and it works well.
Thanks for the share.
Hi Mosam,
Thanks for sharing this great tutorial about Breadcrumbs.
I have a Thesis Theme and I don’t know how good it is with my theme.
Thanks Mosam for sharing! Have a great week ahead.
Be Blessed,
Neamat
Nice post Mosam which really useful for me i’m trying to add breadcrumbs for my blog thanks for the update
Hi Mosam,
Thanks for the useful tips here.
My template has this inbuilt. Just with a simple check button, I can enable/disable it.
I think I’ll enable mine to see the experience
Thanks for sharing 😉
This is a cool tip. Breadcrumb really organizes hierarchy in a blogs look. Though for we who use Genesis framework, we don’t need to do it manually. Thanks for the article anyway.
Hi Mosam,
This is a great tutorial.I have Yoast installed, so i’m going to try the first method.Thanks for sharing this.
I was thinking to create some breadcrumbs on my tech blog but I hesitated 🙂 I think if there are not many sub-menus/navigations to go to, a breadcrumb is not necessary. But I guess each blog is different
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