[Plugin: Breadcrumb NavXT] Use of custom field

You should probably re-evaluate your need to do this. You should use descriptive yet concise titles for your content. If you follow that your titles should be fine in your breadcrumbs.

That said, this feature has been asked for in the past. It will not make it into the core plugin, but will be an extension plugin in the future. When that happens exactly depends on when I get time, and if anyone sponsors its development.

I have changed it myself, it was actually very easy to do. All you need to do is change it from fetching the title to fetching the post_meta data. As well as that I have made it so that Google Rich Snippets Tool finds all the breadcrumbs.

Thanks for the reply though.

So you’re wrapping the title with something (and the same thing all the time)? You know you’re doing things the hard way. There are breadcrumb templates that will help you with that.

Also, the breadcrumb rich snippit recognition by Google does not guarantee that Google will find your breadcrumb trail. And, it is not required for Google to detect your breadcrumb trail. I don’t use rich snippits for the breadcrumbs on my site and I get the Google breadcrumbs in search results that my site appears in.

For example one of my categories is deals.

The title for that categorie is Deals | Sitename.com.

But the breadcrumb is ‘Deals’ using custom_breadcrumb as a custom field.

Why do you have the name of a page contain the site’s URL? If you are trying to get that in the page title there are much better ways of doing it.

I have changed it myself, it was actually very easy to do. All you need to do is change it from fetching the title to fetching the post_meta data.

Mind sharing the code on how you did this. I too need the ability to define the title of the breadcrumb used in the trail.

Thanks

Jim

Please tell where to change the code. I also need to change the breadcrumb title to a value of a custom field

Probably I got it. Find the function post_parents() and do_post() at the breadcrumb_navxt_class.php page and replace the get_the_title() with your desired function that was called as constructor parameter.