Justin Tadlock

<p>Breadcrumb Trail is one of the most advanced and robust breadcrumb menu systems available for WordPress.  It started out as a small script for basic blogs but has grown into a system that can handle nearly any site’s setup to show the most accurate breadcrumbs for each page.</p>
<h3>Before using</h3>
<p>Please note that Breadcrumb Trail requires that you understand and know how to edit your theme’s PHP code, at least to the extent of copying and pasting one line of code.  If you’re not comfortable doing this, it’s best to ask that your theme author integrate the code necessary to support this plugin.</p>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<p>This plugin automatically detects your permalink setup and displays breadcrumbs based off that structure.  Nearly all sites have some sort of hierarchy.  Breadcrumb Trail recognizes that and builds a set of unique breadcrumbs for each page on your site.</p>
<p>This means that it can also detect custom post types and taxonomies right out of the box.  Whatever you throw at it, it’s got a solution.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Auto-detects the permalink structure of your site for the most accurate breadcrumbs.</li>
<li>Hooks for plugin/theme developers to overwrite output.</li>
<li>Coded with object-oriented programming (OOP) methods to allow developers to extend it for those highly-custom setups.</li>
<li>Properly handles nearly any custom post type or taxonomy.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Professional support</h3>
<p>If you need professional plugin support from me, the plugin author, you can join the club at <a href="https://themehybrid.com/club" rel="nofollow ugc">Theme Hybrid</a>, which is a professional WordPress help/support site where I handle support for all my plugins and themes for a community of 75,000+ users (and growing).</p>
<h3>Plugin Development</h3>
<p>If you’re a theme author, plugin author, or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on it’s <a href="https://github.com/justintadlock/breadcrumb-trail" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>Yes, I do accept donations.  If you want to donate, you can do so from my <a href="https://themehybrid.com/donate" rel="nofollow ugc">donations page</a> or grab me something from my <a href="http://a.co/flUb0ns" rel="nofollow ugc">Amazon Wish List</a>.</p>
<p>I appreciate all donations, no matter the size.  Further development of this plugin is not contingent on donations, but they are always a nice incentive.</p>


Breadcrumb Trail

This plugin is one of my go-to plugins when it comes to menu-based breadcrumbs. Keep it up!

Great solid plugin

A powerful script for adding breadcrumbs to your site that supports Schema.org HTML5-valid microdata.

loseyourmarbles

<p>Instant Breadcrumbs adds a breadcrumb trail to your WordPress blog’s primary navigation menu. No theme editing required!<br />
Including a breadcrumb trail on your site not only makes it easier for visitors to navigate your site, but also allows<br />
search engines to better explore your blog and include the breadcrumb information in rich snippet data in search<br />
results. Many breadcrumb plugins exist, but normally require either theme editing, or use of a theme that is already<br />
customized to include the breadcrumb function. In addition, editing the theme is usually followed by some CSS<br />
styling to make the breadcrumb trail match the overall ‘look’ of the site.</p>
<p>Instant Breadcrumbs takes a different approach. Since breadcrumbs are a navigation aid, the generated trail is<br />
automatically added to the front of your existing primary navigation menu. This allows it to not only function<br />
straight out of the box with a large number of themes, but also use the existing styling of your primary navigation<br />
menu.</p>
<p>A quick overview of Instant Breadcrumbs features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Works with both custom primary menus and the default ‘page’ menu generated by WordPress;</li>
<li>Produces RDFa-compliant breadcrumb trails that may be used by Google and others in search results;</li>
<li>Supports customization of the breadcrumb titles for pages such as the front page, archives, and search;</li>
<li>Re-uses existing top-level entries in the primary menu to avoid repeated links;</li>
<li>Includes CSS classes for added breadcrumbs for optional further styling if desired;</li>
<li>Use the built-in breadcrumb generator, or third-party generators such as Yoast (<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" rel="ugc">WordPress SEO</a>)<br />
and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/" rel="ugc">Breadcrumb NavXT</a>, adding those to the nav menu without theme editing. Tested against<br />
Breadcrumb NavXT 5.1.0 and WordPress SEO 1.5.4.2;</li>
<li>Supports HTML markup in post titles, with the option to disable it;</li>
<li>“Manual” mode allows insertion into templates for themes that do not use the WordPress primary navigation menu;</li>
<li>A widget is available if you would prefer to show the breadcrumb trail in a sidebar.</li>
</ul>
<p>Visit the <a href="http://loseyourmarbles.co/instant-breadcrumbs" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Blog Page</a> if you have a comment or suggestion for the next update of the plugin!<br />
If Instant Breadcrumbs is useful to you, please consider making a small contribution via <a href="http://loseyourmarbles.co/instant-breadcrumbs/contribute" rel="nofollow ugc">Flattr</a> to help support<br />
the continued development and improvement of this plugin, or leave a review at the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/instant-breadcrumbs/" rel="ugc">WordPress Plugin Directory</a>.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>The Instant Breadcrumbs plugin is currently translated into the following languages:</p>
<ul>
<li>es_ES: Español</li>
<li>fr_FR: Français</li>
<li>sr_RS: Srpski jezik</li>
</ul>
<p>Spanish translation provided by Andrew Kurtis of <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebHostingHub</a>.<br />
Serbian translation provided by Ogi Djuraskovic of <a href="http://firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">FirstSiteGuide</a>.</p>
<p>All other translations courtesy of the continued hard work of the <a href="http://wp-translations.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-Translations</a> team. This plugin is proud to be a part of the<br />
WP-Translations community. If you would like to make translation contributions, please visit the <a href="http://transifex.com/projects/p/instant-breadcrumbs" rel="nofollow ugc">translation dashboard on Transifex</a>.</p>
<p>Banner image is <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shinyredtype/5692770225/in/photostream/" rel="nofollow ugc">Trail of (gluten-free) bread crumbs</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shinyredtype/" rel="nofollow ugc">Kat Selvocki</a> and<br />
used here under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/" rel="nofollow ugc">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</a>.</p>


Instant Breadcrumbs

Instant Breadcrumbs adds a breadcrumb trail to your WordPress blog's primary navigation menu. No theme editing required!

Breadcrumb Trail vs Instant Breadcrumbs