When you visit a website or a blog, you frequently see this kind of navigation menu :
This is what a breadcrumbs navigation looks like. This menu shows us where we are during surfing and exploring a website.
There are many benefits to use such navigation menu. This menu is SEO friendly. The search engine robot would easily recognize our blog’s internal linking. To the human visitors, this menu will help them to surf our blog without being worried of getting lost.
So then how to attach di menu in our WordPress blog? There is a simple way to do it. You don’t even need a plugin like Breadcrumb NavXT or Yoast Breadcrumb. I will show you how to add a breadcrumbs navigation in your WordPress blog without using any plugins. Here is the steps :
1. Click Appearance – Editor, and choose Single.php
2. Find this line : <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
3. Put this php script right above the line, then click Update File. Don’t forget to change ‘yourdomain.com’ with your own website address.
<div id=”breadcrumb”>
<a title=”Go to homepage” href=”http://yourdomain.com/”>Home</a>
» <?php the_category(‘ » ‘); ?>
» <a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”>
<?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
4. Voila!
Good luck.
