BreadcrumbsPress

Breadcrumbs based navigation, fully responsive and customizable, supporting post types, all types of archives, 404 pages, search results, and support for third-party plugins. Generated breadcrumbs all have support for Breadcrumbs rich snippet schema, using JSON-LD format (fully compatible with Schema.org and Google specifications), and it is recognized and accepted by Google and all other popular search engines. Quick Overview Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYoMmSV4GgY Block Editor Support The plugin adds a Block for use in the Block Editor (Gutenberg Editor). The block is available under Widgets. And, this block shows breadcrumbs for the current page or post, or whatever else it is placed in, so it will work inside the block templates too. Breadcrumbs Generated by the Plugin With BreadcrumbsPress you can generate breadcrumbs for WordPress powered website. The plugin can generate breadcrumbs for all types of URLs in WordPress, with support for bbPress (including various Dev4Press plugins for bbPress), BuddyPress and WooCommerce. Here is the list included URL types plugins supports:

• WordPress Front Page (including Home/Posts pages)
• WordPress 404 Page
• WordPress Posts and Pages
• WordPress Custom Post Types (Single and Archives)
• WordPress Categories and Tags
• WordPress Custom Taxonomies
• WordPress Date Archives
• WordPress Author Archives
• WooCommerce Store
• WooCommerce Products (Single and Shop)
• WooCommerce Categories and Tags
• WooCommerce Profile (with support for subpages)
• BuddyPress Activity Directory
• BuddyPress Groups Directory
• BuddyPress Users Directory
• BuddyPress Group (with support for subpages)
• BuddyPress User Profiles (with support for subpages)
• bbPress Forums, Topics and Replies
• bbPress Topic Views
• bbPress Topic Tags
• bbPress User Profile (with support for subpages)
• bbPress GD Members Directory

The plugin has a wide range of settings to control the visibility of breadcrumbs on various page types, options to change the path used for breadcrumbs for posts and terms, styling and markup settings. Plugin includes font with icons (built into CSS) with separator icons and few additional icons for home page, store and forums main crumbs. Integration into WordPress Breadcrumbs can be added using PHP function or shortcode. Or, you can hook the plugin to any action in WordPress, or alternatively, plugin can automatically integrate with some popular themes (themes that provide actions/filters rich frameworks). This includes currently:

• GeneratePress
• Kadence
• OceanWP
• Astra
• StoreFront
• Blocksy
• Genesis Framework

More themes will be added in the future, but only themes that have actions placed inside templates to expand or changing the theme. Plugin Pro Edition

• Multi breadcrumbs: generate multiple breadcrumbs paths to a post
• Menu breadcrumbs: show a WordPress menu as a breadcrumb
• Tweaks: hide some crumbs if the breadcrumb list is long
• Tweaks: shorten the displayed title for individual crumbs if too long.
• Compare Free vs Pro Editions
• Upgrade to Pro Edition

General Requirements

• PHP: 8.0 or newer
• WordPress: 6.4 or newer

PHP Notice

• The plugin doesn't work with PHP 7.4 or older versions.

WordPress Notice

• The plugin doesn't work with WordPress 6.3 or older versions.

Basic Installation

• Plugin folder in the WordPress plugins folder should be breadcrumbspress.
• Upload breadcrumbspress folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
• Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
• Plugin settings are available under WordPress 'Settings' panel

Version: 4.7 / july 17 2026

• New: tested and compatible with WordPress 7.0
• Edit: updated blocks to API version 3
• Edit: updated blocks packages dependencies to WP 6.4
• Edit: updated some dependencies
• Edit: Dev4Press Library 5.5.2
• Edit: Freemius SDK 2.13.4

Version: 4.6 / november 12 2025

• New: tested and compatible with PHP 8.5
• New: tested and compatible with WordPress 6.8
• Edit: Dev4Press Library 5.3
• Edit: Freemius SDK 2.13

Version: 4.5 / january 29 2025

• New: tested and compatible with PHP 8.4
• New: tested and compatible with WordPress 6.7
• New: use composer to install Dev4Press Library
• New: plugin can work as Lite edition without license code
• New: plugin refactoring and other core changes
• Edit: reorganized and improved all the plugin settings
• Edit: changes to the feature registration and loading
• Edit: updates to the loading of third party libraries
• Edit: Dev4Press Library 5.3 Full changelog: DebugPress Changelog