If you want to add a breadcrumb to your blog, you can use one of the many available plugins to do so. But why using a plugin when you can easily code it yourself? Here’s a ready to use code snippet to add a breadcrumb to your WordPress blog.
Open your functions.php and paste the code below in it:
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function the_breadcrumb() { echo '<ul id="crumbs">'; if (!is_home()) { echo '<li><a href="'; echo get_option('home'); echo '">'; echo 'Home'; echo "</a></li>"; if (is_category() || is_single()) { echo '<li>'; the_category(' </li><li> '); if (is_single()) { echo "</li><li>"; the_title(); echo '</li>'; } } elseif (is_page()) { echo '<li>'; echo the_title(); echo '</li>'; } } elseif (is_tag()) {single_tag_title();} elseif (is_day()) {echo"<li>Archive for "; the_time('F jS, Y'); echo'</li>';} elseif (is_month()) {echo"<li>Archive for "; the_time('F, Y'); echo'</li>';} elseif (is_year()) {echo"<li>Archive for "; the_time('Y'); echo'</li>';} elseif (is_author()) {echo"<li>Author Archive"; echo'</li>';} elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) {echo "<li>Blog Archives"; echo'</li>';} elseif (is_search()) {echo"<li>Search Results"; echo'</li>';} echo '</ul>'; } |
Once done, open header.php and call the function:
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<?php the_breadcrumb(); ?> |