[Plugin: Breadcrumb NavXT] Parent pages not showing

Check your sidebar for loops that mess with the $post variable. If it’s state is messed up Breadcrumb NavXT may behave unexpectedly.

Thanks for your answer. My theme does not use the sidebar…

Do you have a link to the affected site? From what I’ve seen this problem is caused by modified $post variables.

Hi,

this is the link: https://bit.ly/bjRS4r

I am using only pages at the moment since we try to use WP as a CMS. We are going to add a news section where the posts are going to be shown.

Thanks!

Are you sure you actually are using a page hierarchy on that site? You permalinks, and your link rel= header tags suggest that none of the sub pages are actually children of the parent page. Set the pages as children of their respective parent (e.g. Finance should be set as the parent page of Background, Track Record, and Performance).

-John Havlik

Hi John,

thank you for your message. Yes this was it! I was distracted by the new custom menu feature of wordpress and forgot to set the pages hierarchy accordingly.

However the “Home” branch has always been configured with proper parent-child settings. But only in this section it does not show up properly. Compare it to the “Finance” section where it works fine…

Any clue?

Thanks for your great help!

Felix

Felix,

Did you uncheck the “Place the home breadcrumb in the trail.” option?

The frontpage/home breadcrumb works differently than normal pages (different code populates it). This is because not everyone uses just pages so the frontpage/home is not always a direct parent page.

-John Havlik

Ok, that did that. I put “Home” instead of “Blog” into field “Home title”. Thanks! But now all other pages carry the “Home” link as well. Even the once beyond “Finance”. I checked all the other options but cannot find an option that avoids this. Did I miss anything?

Thank you!

Felix,

I think you may be misunderstanding this a little. All of your pages are technically children of the home page, thus it will show up in the breadcrumb trail, if told to be displayed. You can’t really have multiple top level pages (there is only one root). Hence the behavior you are observing.

-John Havlik