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Isn’t there a way to easily put some breadcrumbs at the top of a page without having to use a plugin? I did some searching and really only found links to plugins.

My example breadcrumb would be home > template Section > category name or blog title. But I think category name would be enough.

Anything out there like that?

You can build them yourself just using a combination of whatever tags will return the right link.

OK, I guess I’ll have to try and figure that out. 😊 thanks

OK, I found some code in the forums and maybe I a shooting myself in the foot with this, and I might already have figured it out…. I guess I’m looking for any opinions with what I’ve done.

I built this breadcrumb link:

<ul id="crumbs">
        <li><a href="http://{path=" title="Home">Home</a>/</li> {if segment_1 <> NULL}<li><a href="http://{path=" title="{segment_1}">{/if} {segment_1}</a>/</li>{if segment_2 <> NULL}<li><a href="http://{path=" title="{segment_2}">{/if} {segment_2}</a>/</li>
        </ul>

The trouble is that “segment one” is my template group. I thought by changing my site to that template group being the homepage that it would come off the breadcrumb, but it doesn’t… Should I just remove “segment one” from my code.. or is there a better way?

This seemed to do the trick. Kinda of crude, but ti works.

<ul id="crumbs">
        <li><a href="http://{path=" title="home">home</a>/</li> {if segment_2 <> NULL}<li><a href="http://{path=" title="{segment_2}">{segment_2}</a>/</li>{/if}  {if segment_3 <> NULL}<li><a href="http://{path=" title="{segment_3}">{segment_3}</a></li>{/if} 
        </ul>

Back again…

The crumbs aren’t working very well since I have to have super easy descriptive segments in order for it to really work:

<ul id="breadcrumbs">
        <li><a href="http://{path=" title="home">home</a>/</li> {if segment_2 <> NULL}<li><a href="http://{path=" title="{segment_2}">{segment_2}</a>/</li>{/if}  {if segment_3 <> NULL}<li><a href="http://{path=" title="{segment_3}">{segement 3}</a></li>{/if} 
        </ul>

The problem with all this is segments sometimes are just the template that I am on and in segment three if I am on a gallery detail the underscore is added in my crumb?

How can I get it so the titles of the gallery item I am view show up and without underscores? or ignore templates?

Has anyone created some breadcrumbs scripts not just for pages?

Building breadcrumbs can be a fairly independent practice—meaning what works for one, won’t work for everyone else.  For example, here’s breadcrumb code I used for a recent client site:

<div class="breadcrumbs">
    <small>
    <a href="http://www.site.org" title="My Web Site">Home</a>
    
    {if segment_1 !=""}  ›  <a href="/{segment_1}/" title="{segment_1}">{exp:php_text_format type="ucwords"}{segment_1}{/exp:php_text_format}</a>{/if}
    
    {if segment_2 !="" AND segment_2 !="article"}  ›  <a href="/{segment_1}/{segment_2}/">{exp:weblog:category_heading}{exp:php_text_format type="ucwords"}{category_name}{/exp:php_text_format}{/exp:weblog:category_heading}</a>{/if}
    
    {if segment_2 =="article"}  ›  {exp:weblog:entries weblog="about|blog|digital|tech|mobile|workshops|resources|projects" limit="1" status="not Closed" disable="trackbacks"}{title}{/exp:weblog:entries}{/if}

        {if segment_3 =="article"}   ›  {exp:weblog:entries weblog="about|blog|digital|tech|mobile|workshops|resources|projects" limit="1" status="not Closed" disable="trackbacks"}{title}{/exp:weblog:entries}{/if}
    
    </small>
    </div>

I’ve added spacing so that the various if statements are more distinguishable. But as you can see, the statements generally take into consideration how you’ve set-up the site navigation and url structure in the first place.  For this client, segment_1 was always the section that they were in, and sections matched weblogs and template_groups simultaneously. Since the segments were simple, I just used the {segment_1} code, but if they had been more complicated (example: products == Product Catalog, then I could have used the weblog name (not short name) instead of {segment_1}.

This was a custom url project for a client, so the second segment was typically a category_id. So obviously a query to return the category name, and not the id. Etc., etc. 

But, this is just one example, I find that reusing breadcrumb code is about bits and pieces, there has only been a few times when I been able to just paste in the code from one site to the next.