Crumb Trail Navigation in WordPress

A website with blog building project I have been working on recently is Modern Eco Homes, and again it is a WordPress as CMS solution. For this project we wanted to give the existing site a usability makeover. As well as navigation problems, we also wanted to give a little SEO lift.

Back in the day even my hard coded sites would often feature a crumb trail. That is where you can see where you are in the site hierarchy from Home -> Parent -> Current page.

Even though WordPress features the concept of page parents and children, it doesn’t have crumb trail built in.

Luckily Yoast has a plugin that is perfect.

All you have to do is install the plugin and drop in a tiny piece of code into your page template and ta-da, nice and easy crumb trail navigation. I am sure you will agree, it works well …

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Posted on September 25, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
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3 Responses to “Crumb Trail Navigation in WordPress”

  1. Susan on September 25th, 2008 11:39 pm

    Yoast has a lot of great wordpress plugins!

  2. gWallet on September 29th, 2008 1:09 pm

    Nice tip! the Eco homes site looks great, and after a bit of digging through, I noticed the breadcrumb nav. I hadn’t really thought about that feature in a while, but it does come in might handy when trying to navigate through various pages, and saves a lot of wear and tear on the ‘back’ button. as per Susan’s suggestion, heading over to Yoast right now to check the other available goodies. Thanks again for this tip.

  3. Tim on October 10th, 2008 9:02 pm

    Excellent tip…I was going crazy trying to find a way to add navigation/breadcrumbs to NextGen’s gallery for a site I’m creating theiphonefaq.com. Sure nextgen will give you nav buttons when looking at a gallery but it doesn’t provide nav when going from an album to a gallery and back (at least as far as I could tell). Don’t know why I didn’t come across Yoast’s plugin first but your site lead me to it…thx!

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