Kevin Gillispie

Schema Scalpel 2.0 delivers surgical precision to your WordPress structured data. The headline feature: a brand-new metabox right inside the post/page editor (Gutenberg and Classic), letting you create, edit, and manage custom JSON-LD schemas without ever leaving the content screen.
No bloated page builders or separate dashboards for everyday use — just fast, intuitive schema editing where you already work, with real-time AJAX saves and a modern, clean interface.
<h3>Core Benefits & Features</h3>
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<li>New in 2.0: Powerful Editor Metabox — Add/edit/delete per-post/page schemas directly in the editor. Real-time saving, syntax-highlighted JSON editor, visual separation of local vs global schemas.</li>
<li>Examples Library — One-click copy of Google-recommended templates (FAQPage, Article, HowTo, Recipe, Product, Organization, Breadcrumb, and more).</li>
<li>Per-Page Precision — Override or supplement global schemas for ultimate control — ideal for blogs, eCommerce, local businesses, and agencies.</li>
<li>Global & Homepage Schemas — Still fully supported via the dedicated Schema Scalpel dashboard.</li>
<li>Improved Security — Hardened against XSS (titles, URLs, breadcrumbs fully sanitized), secure JSON encoding, strict input validation — building on previous critical fixes.</li>
<li>Compatibility — Works flawlessly alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and All in One SEO. Easily disable their schema output to avoid duplication.</li>
<li>Lightweight & Performant — Pure JSON-LD injection, no frontend bloat, optimized database storage.</li>
<li>Safe Uninstall — Optional setting to clean up data on deletion — respect privacy and keep your site secure.</li>
<li>Modern Codebase — Strict typing, full WordPress Coding Standards compliance, PHP 7.4+ compatibility.</li>
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Whether you’re chasing rich results (stars, carousels, FAQs), improving entity understanding, or just giving search engines cleaner data — Schema Scalpel makes it effortless and reliable.
Install today and start enhancing click-through rates and visibility!

Schema Scalpel

Add custom JSON-LD schema markup per post or page with a powerful new editor metabox – precise, fast, and SEO-boosting.

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<h3>For Full Documentation & The Latest Updates</h3>
<a href="https://github.com/Clark-Nikdel-Powell/Hansel-and-Gretel" rel="nofollow ugc">Watch us on GitHub!</a>
<h3>Where The Heck Am I?</h3>
Let’s face it: breadcrumbs are an integral part of websites these days. They give an immediate sense of hierarchy to your visitors and allow users to backtrack through your site to (hopefully) find more content. WordPress simplifies structuring sites how ever it seems reasonable, but it takes a bit more effort to generate breadcrumbs for all the different types of posts, and pages, and taxonomies, and archives, and … you get the idea.
<h3>But there are already plugins for that, aren’t there?</h3>
Sure! And a lot of them work really well for simple sites with simple hierarchies, but many of them fall short in one way or the other:
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Want to use the new semantic <code><nav></code> element? 
 Nope sorry, all they have are <code></code>‘s or <code><ul></code>‘s.
Need to control the classes or IDs of the crumbs? 
 Yep, nope; their wrapper has a fixed class of <code>breadcrumbs</code> though…I hope that’s all you need.
Uh…okay what about custom taxonomies? 
 You already know the answer to this question…
And custom post types? 
 Better hope they’re hierarchical!
Should I even bother mentioning rich snippets/microdata? 
 Haven’t found one yet.
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<h3>Okay fine, but what makes you think yours is any better?</h3>
It might be obvious (considering the previous section) that this plugin seeks to address all the customizability problems with the existing breadcrumb plugin environment while still keeping it as easy to use as possible (read: <code>HAG_Breadcrumbs();</code>, done!). It’s as simple as that. Hopefully it can live up to your expectations!
<h3>Features</h3>
The following features are currently available unless otherwise specifed.
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Simple Installation 
Upload the plugin, activate via the WordPress admin, and drop the function where you want the breadcrumbs to appear in your template. Done!
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Fine-Tuned Control 
H&G works right out of the box, but oftentimes we want custom control. Nearly every aspect of the breadcrumbs rendering can be changed a’la the <a href="https://github.com/Clark-Nikdel-Powell/Hansel-and-Gretel#options" rel="nofollow ugc">myriad of options</a> available.
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Microdata Integration 
H&G by default includes the microdata format for a <a href="http://schema.org/WebPage" rel="nofollow ugc">WebPage’s breadcrumbs</a>, a format that is jointly supported by <a href="http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/06/02/bing-google-and-yahoo-unite-to-build-the-web-of-objects.aspx" rel="nofollow ugc">Bing</a>, <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1211158" rel="nofollow ugc">Google</a>, <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2011/06/introducing-schema-org-a-collaboration-on-structured-data/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yahoo!</a> and <a href="http://help.yandex.ru/webmaster/?id=1122752" rel="nofollow ugc">Yandex</a>.
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Full Markup Control 
Choose any element to wrap your breadcrumbs, including optional class(es) or ID attributes. Likewise, you can include prefix and suffix content right inside the wrapper element tags for further control.
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Template Hierarchy Based Rendering 
H&G utilizes the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Template Hierarchy</a> to determine which crumbs to show, including that elusive Comments Popup Window everybody (read: nobody) uses! This means, regardless of your theme, Hansel & Gretel will follow WP’s lead about the content on the page.
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Custom Post Types & Taxonomies 
Never worry about how breadcrumbs behave across your fancy new post types and taxonomies. H&G accounts for hierarchical and non-hierarchical types, whether or not they have an archive page, and also provides options to override breadcrumb display for individual post types if desired.
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Home & Last Crumbs 
H&G allows full control in showing home breadcrumbs and even allows for customized Front Page versus Blog Home Page templates. Likewise, the last, current page crumb has equal control depending on the needs of your theme.
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Made for Theme Developers 
Hansel and Gretel was made by theme developers for theme developers. The default options and degree of customizability were all considered by our team of experienced WP developers to make sense right out of the box, with as little further customization as possible. Give it a try and let us know what you think. We all want H&G to be the simplest and smartest breadcrumb plugin you’ll ever use! To contribute to the development of this plugin, <a href="https://github.com/Clark-Nikdel-Powell/Hansel-and-Gretel" rel="nofollow ugc">fork our repo</a> over on GitHub.
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Hansel & Gretel: Fine-Tuned Breadcrumb Generator

Simple microdata-enabled breadcrumbs generator

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