<div class="breadcrumb">
<?php
if(function_exists('bcn_display'))
{
	bcn_display();
}
?>
</div>

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460 Responses to “Breadcrumb NavXT”

• gofree

  December 30th, 2009 at 5:52 am

  Great plugin. I installed it successfully. Anyway, how do I show a post in two categories ‘Blog’ and ‘Featured’ subcategory to ‘MISC’?
  How can I achieve this:
  WareZReview > Blog | MISC > Featured > RATE: GameLoo.info

  Thanks in advance.

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  • mtekk

    December 30th, 2009 at 7:43 am

    Gofree,

    You can not and should not do it. Categories are hierarchical and your proposed method does not clearly display the category hierarchy leading up to the post (e.g. is featured a child category of Blog or MISC or both of them?). This is only going cause confusion among your users.

    -John Havlik

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    • gofree

      January 4th, 2010 at 8:43 am

      ‘Featured’ is a child of MISC, so it stands just after its parent – MISC > Featured.

      WP allows us to create sub cat, so why not make one?

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      • mtekk

        January 4th, 2010 at 9:03 am

        Gofree,

        No, I was pointing out that from your example Featured looks to be a child category of Blog and MISC. Breadcrumb NavXT does support hierarchical categories (that’s what I’m using on this site), but it does not support outputting multiple member categories on each breadcrumb level (e.g. ‘WareZReview > MISC > Featured > RATE: GameLoo.info’ is valid ‘WareZReview > Blog > RATE: GameLoo.info’ is also valid, but ‘WareZReview > Blog | MISC > Featured > RATE: GameLoo.info’ is not valid).

        -John Havlik

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• Babaji M P

  January 1st, 2010 at 1:13 pm

  Hi,

  Unable to activate the plugin. I get an error:

  Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/content/html/wp-content/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/breadcrumb_navxt_admin.php on line 45

  Pl let me know how to fix it.

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  • mtekk

    January 1st, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    Babaji,

    See the Breadcrumb NavXT FAQ.

    -John Havlik

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    • Paul

      February 3rd, 2010 at 12:28 pm

      hmmm… I have php5 activated with my hosting company already. Is there another reason I might be getting this error

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      • mtekk

        February 3rd, 2010 at 2:34 pm

        Paul,

        If you had just switched to PHP5, it may take a while for the host to actually switch over to it (24 hours or so). What you should do is add phpinfo(); to your theme’s functions.php file, and see what version it says you are running.

        -John Havlik

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• Lee Hughes

  January 3rd, 2010 at 11:47 am

  Hi,

  I have followed your instructions and placed the required code into my index.php file but I am yet to see the plugin on my website…

  Not sure what am doing wrong..

  Thanks

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  • mtekk

    January 3rd, 2010 at 2:28 pm

    Lee,

    Depending on your theme, index.php may not be loaded on every page (and thus the breadcrumb trail won’t show up everywhere). You also need to ensure that the plugin is activated. If the site was the one listed in your name, I’m not seeing any HTML suggesting that Breadcrumb NavXT is running or it’s calling code is there.

    -John Havlik

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    • Lee Hughes

      January 3rd, 2010 at 4:27 pm

      Hi John..

      Yes, the plugin is activated and is the one listed for my name…

      I built the theme myself.. Would it be better if I put the code in my single.php file for my blog?

      <h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
<?php get_search_form(); ?>

      <?php endif; ?>
<div class="breadcrumb">
<?php
if(function_exists('bcn_display'))
{
bcn_display();
}
?>
</div>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

      This is where I have put the code.. maybe a conflict or something ?

      Thanks

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      • mtekk

        January 3rd, 2010 at 4:59 pm

        Lee,

        Ok I see it now, it’s at the bottom of the blog page, next to the next page link. It’s difficult to see due to styling (black text for part of it, a styling issue but I’m sure you can fix that easily).

        Where do you want the breadcrumb to show up on your site (on what pages, and location on the pages)?

        -John Havlik

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        • Lee Hughes

          January 3rd, 2010 at 5:02 pm

          I would like it on my blog most.. I think that will increase my SEO more

          So I just change the CSS ?

          Thanks John
        • mtekk

          January 3rd, 2010 at 5:18 pm

          Lee,

          If you want it on every blog post along with the “main” blog page, you’ll need to place the code in your single.php and in your index.php.

          -John Havlik
• Scott

  January 6th, 2010 at 1:19 pm

  Hi,
  Thank you for the plugin.
  On the post page it’s not showing the ‘child’ categories, only the top category (then post title).
  Can I do anything about this?

  Thanks!

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  • Nik

    January 6th, 2010 at 5:06 pm

    Hey,

    I believe I am having this problem too. I can’t figure it out. Any ideas?

    Thank you

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  • mtekk

    January 6th, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    Scott,

    Do you have a link to an example page which exhibits this behavior? I’m not seeing the issue on the site you linked to in your name.

    -John Havlik

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• Scott

  January 7th, 2010 at 12:53 am

  Hi John,
  Thanks so much for getting back to me.

  The following link:
  http://www.vibraphoneandmarimba.com/sheet-music/four-vivaldi-seasons-for-flute-and-vibraphone/

  Should look like this in the bread crumbs:

  Home > Sheet Music > Duos > Flute and Vibraphone > Four Vivaldi seasons for flute and vibraphone

  But instead looks like this:

  Home > Sheet Music > Duos > Four Vivaldi seasons for flute and vibraphone

  Thanks!

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  • mtekk

    January 7th, 2010 at 10:05 am

    Scott,

    Is that post a member of the categories “Duos” and “Flute and Vibraphone”? If so, that is the problem. Breadcrumb NavXT will take the first category hierarchy it finds, this may not be the longest one. Thus, it look like it is cutoff, but in reality that’s the category hierarchy it is picking. Unless you have a compelling reason to have the post be an explicit member of every category in that hierarchy, I’d change it so it’s only a member of the deepest, most specific category. WordPress will still handle the archives correctly (it will still show up in the “Duos” category archive as long as “Flute and Vibraphone” is a child category of “Duos”).

    -John Havlik

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    • Scott

      January 7th, 2010 at 10:22 am

      Brilliant!
      Thank you!
      Yes, for some reason I thought that when writing the post I was supposed to ‘check mark’ Parent – child – child. In reality I see now thanks to you I only need to check mark the last category to which it belongs.
      Now I just have to worry if maybe my permalink structure is not optimal for wordpress!
      Been reading this:
      http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/02/04/efficient-wordpress-permalinks

      Thanks again John

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      • mtekk

        January 7th, 2010 at 12:59 pm

        Scott,

        If you use a permalink structure like: “/archives/%category%/%postname%/” you won’t have the performance hit. Dougal’s post is a little outdated and in reality date based permalinks are not that good. They are terrible for usability and, ironically, SEO (From what I’ve seen, Google does not generate breadcrumbs for date based permalinks in their search results).

        -John Havlik

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        • Scott

          January 7th, 2010 at 4:33 pm

          Hi John,

          I know this is off topic. But was wondering your opinion.
          If I use:
          /%category%/%postname%/
          is it really a big deal for performance? (I may have eventually over 1000 posts put only a few pages)
          And would the Super Cache plugin rectify this if it becomes a problem?
          I’d like to avoid changing the permalink structure but don’t want to regret this later on.

          Thanks!

          Scott.
• Shannon

  January 7th, 2010 at 12:12 pm

  I installed this WP plugin on my website and then realized that the site did not have a deep enough menu navigation to warrant it so I disabled it and went to delete it. This error message came up:

  Fatal error: Call to undefined method bcn_admin::uninstall() in /www/__________.com/wp-content/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/breadcrumb_navxt_uninstaller.php on line 148

  I am using WP 2.9.1 and want to know if there is a way to remove the plugin.

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  • mtekk

    January 7th, 2010 at 12:55 pm

    Shannon,

    You’ll have to delete the breadcrumb_navxt_admin.php and “reinstall” the plugin. Then the delete from WordPress will work (we’ve been having issues with the uninstaller hooks not working in WordPress and I removed the uninstaller function from the admin class thinking that it was not needed in the new uninstaller).

    -John Havlik

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    • Shannon

      January 9th, 2010 at 11:31 am

      I deleted the file and tried to reinstall the plugin from within Wordpress and got this error:

      Destination folder already exists. /www/_______.com/wp-content/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/

      Plugin Install Failed.

      What should I do now?

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      • mtekk

        January 9th, 2010 at 8:31 pm

        Shannon,

        Deleting the entire breadcrumb-navxt directory should avoid that error.

        -John Havlik

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        • Shannon

          January 11th, 2010 at 1:17 am

          That worked. Thanks
• Thibaut

  January 13th, 2010 at 11:47 pm

  Thanks for a great plugin!!.

  I have two questions I can’t seem to find answers on, both related to the breadcrum for the search.php template.

  1. I’m trying to work it into a multilingual site using wpml plugin. Any way for me to change the language depending on the language?

  2. Anyway to add a prefix link for the search breadcrumb so that it is :

  home > tools > search > results for…

  The plugin uses .mo or .po (I forget) files and this is what I use to call text:

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  • Thibaut

    January 13th, 2010 at 11:50 pm

    Tried to add tags… I should no better

    Here is what I use to call text:

    _e(’search’, ‘wpml_theme’);

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  • mtekk

    January 14th, 2010 at 11:46 am

    Thibaut,

    1. I assume you are talking about things like prefixes, suffixes, etc. I’m not familliar with wpml, but I’d assume it provides something that would allow you to place in [lang=en]Search[/lang][lang=es]Buscar[/lang]. To be honest, the only plugin that I’ve seen work is qTranslate.
    2. Searches will search both posts and pages, thus they are a direct decedent of the root page, and belong under home > results for. You could manually add in the extra breadcrumbs (use the available bcn_breadcrumb_trail::add() function, note that you’ll have to use the “advanced usage” calling code for this to work).

    -John Havlik

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• Nik

  January 14th, 2010 at 2:44 pm

  Hey John,

  I really like your plug in but I having trouble figuring out what I did to stop it from working correctly.

  When I’m logged into Wordpress, the breadcrumb shows correctly (i.e. Navigation » Vaporizer Reviews > Vaporizer Reviews > Volcano Vaporizer). When I log out, I see: Navigation » Vaporizer Reviews > … I have a link to this example in my signature.

  Any advice?

  Thank you

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  • mtekk

    January 14th, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    Nik,

    I’m not sure what’s going on there. The breadcrumb trail should not be affected by the current user’s state (logged in or not). Previously, you had said you were experiencing the same issues as Scott. Did you try the solution that worked for him? Is this a new problem that arose after fixing the previous issue?

    -John Havlik

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    • Nik

      January 14th, 2010 at 5:02 pm

      Hey,

      Thanks for the quick response. I thought I had the same problem as Scott but I misunderstood his question/problem.

      I am not sure when the problem started. I think it might have stopped working when I updated the plug-in. I am now thinking it could be related to the use of custom code when the website was developed. Is this possible? If so, I’ll try to get in contact with the coder of the website.

      It really is strange that it works correctly when I’m logged into Wordpress and preview the page…

      Also, does this look funny?
      <!-- Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.1 -->
Navigation » <a title="Go to Vaporizer Reviews." href="http://www.vaporizerforums.com/vaporizer-reviews" rel="nofollow">Vaporizer Reviews</a>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;

      Thanks again

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      • Nik

        January 14th, 2010 at 5:05 pm

        Darn, that was supposed to show a small bit of code that I was looking at while viewing the source… it was not supposed to be a link.

        Vaporizer Reviews > 

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      • mtekk

        January 15th, 2010 at 11:10 am

        Nik,

        If you didn’t try to remove the current item form the breadcrumb trail, then, yes, that is odd, it looks like it exited early for some reason. Could you enable the WordPress debug messages to see if any errors/warnings appear? To do this make sure define('WP_DEBUG', true); is uncommented and placed before require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php'); in your wp-config.php file.

        -John Havlik

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• Nik

  January 16th, 2010 at 12:02 am

  John,

  I enabled the debug mode. It shows these messages immediately above the breadcrumb trail when I am logged out:

  Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in …/wp-includes/post-template.php on line 109

  Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in …/wp-includes/post-template.php on line 120

  Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in …/wp-content/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/breadcrumb_navxt_class.php on line 625

  Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in …/wp-includes/category-template.php on line 871

  There were other error messages too but I am not sure if you wanted me to post them all. Most of them were related to the All in one SEO plug in.

  Thanks again

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  • mtekk

    January 16th, 2010 at 9:57 am

    Nik,

    Ok it looks like the $post variable is getting trashed (unset or otherwise modified inappropriately). I’m not sure why it is happening but that’s the problem (something with the theme, or another plugin).

    -John Havlik

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• carbolineum

  January 16th, 2010 at 1:48 pm

  Hi,

  I had the same experience.

  Nik, do you use the “Ajax Edit Comments”-Plugin?

  I disabled it on my blog, and the NavXT-Plugin works again as usual.

  Greetings, Michael

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  • Nik

    January 16th, 2010 at 4:50 pm

    Hey,

    “WP Ajax Edit Comments” was causing the problem.

    Thank you John and Michael for helping me with this issue. I really appreciate it.

    Nik

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  • mtekk

    January 16th, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    Michael,

    Thanks for letting me know that. I’m going to look into the compatibility issues and notify the author of any corrections needed to resolve the issue.

    -John Havlik

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• Mahindra

  January 17th, 2010 at 11:27 am

  Hi John,

  Love your Breadcrumb plugin. So easy to setup and use especially since I know nothing of code etc. Question though. One one of my pages (if you would look here to get an idea of what I’m talking about http://www.experienceserenity.com/serenity-personal-growth), the breadcrumb is taking the entire Title of the page and inserting it into the breadcrumb. This makes the breadcrumb realllllllllly looooong.

  How can I make the breadcrumb take maybe only the URL title (“serenity personal growth”) or something else which is shorter?

  Thanks again for the plugin and your advice in advance.

  Peace

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  • mtekk

    February 6th, 2010 at 11:52 am

    Mahindra,

    Sorry for the delayed reply, somehow your comment fell through the cracks. Anyways, there is the Breadcrumb Max Title Length setting that you can use to limit the title character length of each breadcrumb in the trail (it safely splits at a word, if possible).

    -John Havlik

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• carbolineum

  January 18th, 2010 at 12:28 pm

  Hi,

  The author of WP Ajax Edit Comments uploaded a fixed Version on the Wordpress Plugin Page. Now both plugins work together on my installation

  Greetings,

  Michael

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• Virvo

  January 24th, 2010 at 3:09 pm

  I followed the instructions for basic installation but it doesnt seem to display the breadcrumb – upon searching the plugin – bcn_display() doesnt seem to be function. Is there something I am doing wrong?

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  • mtekk

    January 24th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    Well, if you used the code, verbatim from the code listing, including the div tags then you should be able to see the <div class="breadcrumb"> where Breadcrumb NavXT should be running.

    If you don’t see <div class="breadcrumb"> then you need to look at where you placed the calling code in your theme files (I don’t know how your theme is setup, and frankly don’t want to know for my own sanity).

    If you do see <div class="breadcrumb"> then, you should enable the WordPress debug mode by making sure define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); is uncommented and placed before require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’); in your wp-config.php file. See what error messages you get, they may point to the problem.

    Also, as observed by two users, there is a version of Ajax Edit Comments that behaves incorrectly, and in the process causes Breadcrumb NavXT to not behave as expected. The author of that plugin has released newer versions, however, they are no longer free (or open source IIRC).

    Finally, you may notice that I changed your name in the comment. I don’t run a SEO baiting service here and if I see anyone trying to do SEO bait I will modify or delete their comment at my discretion.

    -John Havlik

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• Bding

  January 25th, 2010 at 4:42 pm

  Hello,

  Love it! But I miss one feature – integration with Nextgen gallery. When we set up some galleries within albums there is something like this on the very end:

  http://xxx/?page_id=8&album=3

  Breadcrumb only shows something like this:

  home>>http://xxx/?page_id=8&album=3

  Would be nice if could show whole path:

  home>>http://xxx/?page_id=8>>http://xxx/?page_id=8&album=3

  or at least recognize current item to reload as:

  home>>http://xxx/?page_id=8

  I guess a lot peoples would find it very useful.

  Thank you in advance for support.

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• Liviu

  January 26th, 2010 at 6:43 am

  Hello, i have installed your plug-in, it works great as long as i’m authenticated as admin. As soon as log-out / end the admin session, the breadcrumb shows only the home link. Any idea why is doing that ?

  Thanks.

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  • Liviu

    January 26th, 2010 at 7:07 am

    Ok, i found the cause: WP Ajax Edit Comments (i am was using the 3.02 version, the free one)

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    • mtekk

      January 26th, 2010 at 9:37 am

      Liviu,

      The 3.1.0 version looks like it may have been fixed for this bug. Though, the plugin author is no longer supporting the version on WordPress.org.

      -John Havlik

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      • Liviu

        January 26th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

        Yes, so it seems

        Thank you for your time. You are doing a great job

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• joe

  January 27th, 2010 at 10:10 am

  hey – we want to include Home in our breadcrumb, but we don’t want it to show up on the homepage itself. Any ideas on this? Thx, Joe

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  • mtekk

    January 27th, 2010 at 6:05 pm

    Joe,

    Try using something like this for calling your breadcrumb trail:
    wrap the call with something like:
    <div class="breadcrumb">
<?php
if(!is_front_page() && function_exists('bcn_display'))
{
bcn_display();
}
?>
</div>

    -John Havlik

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• Brittany

  January 30th, 2010 at 3:06 pm

  Hi! The blog on my site is set as my main page. However, I was wondering where I could change it so that the blog page’s actual name is shown in the breadcrumbs rather than just “Blog”. Thanks!

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  • mtekk

    January 30th, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    Brittany,

    Did you look at the settings page for Breadcrumb NavXT in your administration panel? The option “Home Breadcrumb” is the one you’ll want to change.

    -John Havlik

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    • Brittany

      January 30th, 2010 at 10:57 pm

      Oh! Okay! Thank You!

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