Breadcrumbs are a type of navigation that shows where the user is within the navigation structure. This type of navigation displays a trail of clickable links, or breadcrumbs, allowing the user to see where they are and navigate back to any point within the navigation structure. This can also help improve your website’s navigation, SEO, UX, and UI. Fortunately, it’s easy to add breadcrumbs to your WordPress website. In this post, we’ll see how to add breadcrumbs in WordPress to get the most out of breadcrumbs navigation.
What are Breadcrumbs?
First, let’s take a closer look at breadcrumbs and see how they work and why you’d want them on your WordPress website. We’ll use a blog post within a specific category as our example. It works the same way for anything that has a category structure, such as products, courses, recipes, or other post types. It’s usually placed above the content under the main navigation menu, but you can place it where it makes the most sense for your content.
The example below is from the Verpex blog. As you can see in this example, breadcrumbs show a set of links including the current post. The link labeled Blog is the first link from the left. It’s blue to show that it’s clickable. This is the main category. Under the Blog category is another category called Website Tips. This is also clickable. Finally, we see the name of the article in this example. This isn’t clickable because that’s the post that’s loaded into my browser. The user can easily see that they’re reading the Blog in the category called Website Tips. They can click on either of these to see more posts.


































