Wordpress Plugin: Simple Breadcrumb Navigation

If you do create websites with WordPress, that go beyond the scope of normal blog pages, you should consider to include a breadcrumb navigation for advanced usability. Since I am using WordPress mainly as a CMS and wasn't very satisified with the availaible plugins (too bloated, too many options to my mind) I decided to code my very own lightweight version.

If you want a very lightweight breadcrumb navigation that supports nested categories and pages, doesn't need many database queries, and if you don't need any crazy options this might be your breadcrumb plugin of choice.

Usage

Just upload the simple_breadcrumb.php file to your plugins folder and activate it in your WordPress backend.

To display the navigation add this line of code to the template file of your choice:

<?php if (class_exists('simple_breadcrumb')) { $bc = new simple_breadcrumb; } ?>

Example

You can find a working example at my newest Wordpress Theme Javazine
(I excluded the Breadcrumb Navigation from the front page, just open a post/page or a categorie to display it)

Download

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Last Update: November 05th 2008, Version: 1.0

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Responses to “Wordpress Plugin: Simple Breadcrumb Navigation”

Josep Viciana November 5th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Simply great, thanks, : )
Josep Viciana November 5th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
One question, if a post is in several categories?
Kriesi November 5th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
only one of these categories will be displayed
Brooke November 8th, 2008 at 1:14 am
when i add the php to my template, it gives me this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in
Annie November 14th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Hi ;0)
I don't where I am messing up as I am in the process to figure out this WORDPRESS thing but When I activate the plugin, I keep getting syntax error on line 12 ;0(
Please help!
Jamie Fehr December 5th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
not to complain, but…
(one) the code snippet you provide is missing a closing parentheses on the if statement
(two) it really wouldn't be hard to internationalize it for people who want to use this on non-english sites
(three) I really need something that displays nested categories.

So I guess I'll go code my own version.
Kriesi December 5th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
(one) fixed
(two) no time here, i leave this up to you ;D
(three) the plugin supports nested categories
hgf January 30th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
hfg
Thomas Thompson July 20th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
OIrpQP Great work …. Thanks for your ideas.,
David Anderson July 20th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
great tips. I enjoyed reading this,
Clark Cook July 20th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
beautiful site..)),
elaina taggart July 20th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
thank you dear friend,
metzo February 4th, 2010 at 4:20 am
Very good ah! As early as I would like to use, and your blog Hehe oh well