Breadcrumb issues – Categories + Forum Topics

[blackandbluebird]

Hello. I cannot for the life of me get categories to display in the breadcrumbs.

Permalinks are set to Custom > /%category%/%postname%/

And in Yoast > Settings > Advanced > Breadcrumbs > Breadcrumbs for post types > Post is set to Category.

And for bbPress Forums, which I have behind a user reg form, the breadcrumbs on the forum index display as:
You Are Here:?Homepage???Forums (which disregards the parent page MMCA Members after Homepage).

Then when I click on a forum, I get: You Are Here:?Homepage???Forums???News & Community (again, no parent page after Homepage)

Then, when I click on a topic, it changes to
You Are Here:?Homepage???Topics???News & Community???Test (no parent page and no Forums page?)

I would like for the whole path to display : You Are Here: Homepage ? MMCA Members ? Forums and then have that all still display based on the forum they choose + topics/replies.

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[Maybellyne]

Hello @blackandbluebird,

Thanks for providing more detail here about your bbPress forum breadcrumbs. Here’s a summary of what I understand your expectations are:

• Forum index – Homepage???MMCA ? Forums
• Forum pages – Homepage???MMCA ? Forums???News & Community
• Topic pages – Homepage???MMCA ? Forums???News & Community ? Topic

Is that correct? The Yoast SEO breadcrumbs are generated based on your site structure. As such, you cannot outrightly include a WordPress page in the path. The supposed parent page, MMCA Members, is not part of the forum structure.

However, you can explore the?wpseo_breadcrumb_links?filter to customize the breadcrumb trail as described here?https://yoast.com/help/implement-wordpress-seo-breadcrumbs/#pathway

[blackandbluebird]

Thank you for the fast reply @maybellyne! Yes that is what I want to happen. I understand now why it isn’t working. I looked at the link but I will be honest, I have very little experience with editing the functions file and filters. Do you have a link by chance of the exact code I would need?

[Maybellyne]

Typically code snippets are added to your theme’s functions.php file. If you’re unfamiliar with using code snippets, we’d like to refer you to the WordPress documentation on how to use a filter.

An example code snippet can be found here.