Adding Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs aren’t built into the theme, but you can easily integrate breadcrumbs into it.

For example, WordPress SEO has a breadcrumbs feature, which you can add to the theme in two ways:

1. The GP Hooks addon – simply paste the breadcrumbs PHP function into your desired hook (Before Content most likely), click execute PHP and you’re done.

2. With a PHP function in a child theme. Which would look something like this: https://gist.github.com/generatepress/a13fbd2bb88008da572f

To get the breadcrumbs code, go to “SEO > Internal Links”, and you’ll find it at the bottom.

This same method can be used with any third-party breadcrumb plugin that offers PHP code.

Let me know if this helps or not,
Tom

Hi there,

Were you able to add the breadcrumbs to the theme?

Let me know ??
Tom

Yes, breadcrumbs have been added.

You can see them here:

https://www.sustainablemontereycounty.com/likeweebly/

In the child theme header.php file, after “<?php do_action( ‘generate_after_header’ ); ?>”, I put this code:

<div class=”grid-container grid-parent”>
<?php the_breadcrumb(); ?>
</div>

Here is the breadcrumb code, which, unfortunately I had to place in the parent theme’s functions.php file (this seems to be the only outstanding issue):

function the_breadcrumb()
{
global $post;

/* Check for Front Page */

if (is_front_page())
{
echo ‘<p id=”breadcrumbs”> You are Here:   <a href=”‘;
echo get_option(‘home’);
echo ‘”>‘;
echo ‘Home’;
echo ‘ </p>’;
}

else

{

/* Show Breadcrumbs */

echo ‘<ul id=”breadcrumbs”>’;

echo ‘

• You are Here:   <a href=”‘;
  echo get_option(‘home’);
  echo ‘”>’;
  echo ‘Home’;
  echo ‘

<li class=”separator”> > ‘;

if( is_home() && get_option(‘page_for_posts’) )
{
/* echo ‘‘; */
echo ‘‘ . apply_filters(‘the_title’,get_page( get_option(‘page_for_posts’) )->post_title) . ‘‘;
/* echo ‘‘; */
}

if (is_category() || is_single())
{
echo ‘

• ‘;
  the_category(‘

<li class=”separator”> >

• ‘);

if (is_single())
{
echo ‘
<li class=”separator”> >

• ‘;
  the_title();
  echo ‘

‘;
}
}

elseif (is_page())

{

if($post->post_parent)
{
$anc = get_post_ancestors( $post->ID );
$anc_count = count($anc);
// echo “
anc_count = ” . $anc_count;

$title = get_the_title();

/* Go backwards through the array, to get the correct path display */

for ($k=$anc_count; $k>0; $k=$k-1)
{
$ancestor = $anc[$k-1];
$output = ‘

• ‘.get_the_title($ancestor).’

<li class=”separator”> > ‘;
echo $output;

}

echo ‘

• <strong title=”‘.$title.'”> ‘.$title. ‘

‘;
}

else

{
echo ‘

• ‘ .get_the_title(). ‘

‘;
}

}

elseif (is_tag()) {single_tag_title();}
elseif (is_day()) {echo”

• Archive for “; the_time(‘F jS, Y’); echo’

‘;}
elseif (is_month()) {echo”

• Archive for “; the_time(‘F, Y’); echo’

‘;}
elseif (is_year()) {echo”

• Archive for “; the_time(‘Y’); echo’

‘;}
elseif (is_author()) {echo”

• Author Archive”; echo’

‘;}
elseif (isset($_GET[‘paged’]) && !empty($_GET[‘paged’])) {echo ”

• Blog Archives”; echo’

‘;}
elseif (is_search()) {echo”

• Search Results”; echo’

‘;}

echo ”;

}
}

You can put that function in the child theme’s functions.php file instead of the parent theme’s functions.php file – it will work the same.

Then you can hook it into the header instead of editing that file, like this:

add_action('generate_after_header','custom_add_breadcrumbs');
function custom_add_breadcrumbs() { ?>
     <div class="grid-container grid-parent">
           <?php the_breadcrumb(); ?>
     </div>
<?php }

That would also go in the child theme’s functions.php file.

Well, I tried some of that.
I copied functions.php to the child theme folder, and added the function there.
Then, when I launched the site, there were error messages saying you cannot redeclare a function.

The functions file should be empty except for your new function.

The whole file looks like this:

<?php
add_action('generate_after_header','custom_add_breadcrumbs');
function custom_add_breadcrumbs() { ?>
     <div class="grid-container grid-parent">
           <?php the_breadcrumb(); ?>
     </div>
<?php }

function the_breadcrumb()
{

... The rest of the_breadcrumb function

}

There’s no need to copy the functions over from the parent’s functions.php file – those functions are included anyways.

Well, thank you so much!
That worked.

You’re very welcome.