TSF breadcrumbs vs Genesis breadcrumbs

  • Resolved darrenc66

    (@darrenc66)


    1 year ago

    I have breadcrumbs enabled in my Genesis theme (Metro Pro). While using schema validator my breadcrumbs don’t appear to be detected.

    If I enable breadcrumbs in TSF will it conflict with my Genesis breadcrumbs, or does TSF just add the structured data to existing breadcrumbs?

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    Sorry for the delay; I unintentionally missed your topic.

    Genesis breadcrumbs won’t have structured data attached when a known SEO plugin is active.

    TSF’s breadcrumbs are based on the Schema.org structured data protocol, which search engines can easily consume. Both TSF’s breadcrumbs and Genesis’s breadcrumbs can be active simultaneously, and you shouldn’t face issues with search engines about this.

    In TSF v5.0, I added a breadcrumbs shortcode. This one will align with the one outputted by TSF as Schema.org structured data. You can learn more about using it here: https://tsf.fyi/kb/breadcrumb-shortcode/. You can replace Genesis’s breadcrumbs with TSF’s and enjoy a slight performance increase if you like. But it’s nothing drastic.

    Thread Starter darrenc66

    (@darrenc66)

    Hi Sybre, thanks for reply. In search sonsole, under enhancements – breadcrumbs, it says I have 315 valid, I have a total of 460 published articles on my site.

    I have’nt activated TSF breadcrumbs yet so can I assume the breadcrumbs are from Genesis microdata?

    As for the short code you mentioned, I don’t know what I should do with that, ie, where to add it.

    So would it be ok for me just to apply breadcrumbs via the settings in TSF, leaving Genesis breadcrumbs active as well?

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    I managed to do it again. I’m sorry about that! I don’t know why I keep missing your topic.

    Yes, you can keep using Genesis’s breadcrumbs if you’d like; those indeed output microdata.
    TSF’s structured data will supersede the breadcrumb microdata, so there’s no issue here. We relied on this combination for years on our websites.

    Still, if you’d like to use the shortcode, you can use [tsf_breadcrumb] almost anywhere. I don’t know how your website is structured, so I cannot give exact pointers. You may want to reach out to Genesis support for this, and you may need to enable shortcodes for widgets via a tiny filter or use this PHP code to directly output the breadcrumbs:

    <?= function_exists( 'tsf_breadcrumb' ) ? tsf_breadcrumb() : '' ?>
    Thread Starter darrenc66

    (@darrenc66)

    Thanks Sybre, I will just leave it as is, with Genesis breadcrumbs.

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