Change Breadcrumb “inch marks” to quotation marks (smart quotes)

Hi @calebweeks!

For Yoast Breadcrumbs, unfortunately, there is no way to modify the inch marks to smart quotes (“ ”) from within the plugin. However, if you are a developer, you can go to /plugins/wordpress-seo-premium/frontend in your server, edit the file class-breadcrumbs.php and look for the following line of code (usually line 408):

WPSEO_Options::get( 'breadcrumbs-searchprefix' ) . ' "' . esc_html( get_search_query() ) . '"',

Change the 2 inch quotes into smart quotes as shown in this screenshot.

NOTE: This is for advanced users and developers. Incorrect modifications might result in a broken plugin. Also, any modification done to this file will get overwritten when the plugin is updated.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Jerlyn.

Thanks @jerparx!

Happy to know where this code lives.

Question: Can you think of any way to modify this without directly editing the plugin code? Perhaps via a function of some kind?

YOAST SEO gets regular updates and I would be constantly (manually) editing this, haha.

Thank you for your reply(!), and no expectation on my follow up question here in this note. I know this is a freely supported forum and even getting a reply is kind enough, so no worries.

Thanks, @jerpax! ??

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Caleb Weeks.

Hi Caleb,

Unfortunately, we do not know of any other way. However, if you believe this would be useful to others as well, then you can submit a feature request.

?Please let us know if you have any other questions or need any help.

Thanks, @marius_codeinwp!

Feature Request submitted. Thanks for that tip!

I think it is just a quick edit rather than an entire request, but it may be that the team specifically wanted inch marks instead of quotation marks. Either way, thank you, again! ??

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Caleb Weeks. Reason: Added link to Feature Request on Github