Blog post breadcrumbs

• queendigital

  said

  Hi,

  When navigating to read a Post, the breadcrumbs shows as:

  Home > Blog > Blog > News > My Test post1

  I have not set “Blog” anywhere, why would it appear in the breadcrumbs? “News” is the correct page as this is what was set as the “Blog” page via the Settings >>> Reading section

  Any ideas?

• jeffw

  said

  Hi, queendigital.

  In Settings > Reading you must have the Front page displays option set to Your latest posts. You then control the design and content of your home page via the Razor layout manager. To create a separate blog page you simply create a new page and use the [blog] shortcode on it with appropriate attributes. This is the way Razor works. If you do it the way you are doing (with your front page set to a static page) then you will continue to experience various issues.

  We made a video that shows you how to set up a blog page: http://para.llel.us/video/theme-features-blog

  And also one that teaches you how to use the layout manager: http://para.llel.us/video/theme-features-layout-manager

  When using the [breadcrumbs] shortcode I always use the full set of attributes:

  [breadcrumbs home="Home" blog="The name of my blog" sep=">" blogpageid="1234" prefix="" archiveprefix="" searchprefix="" boldlast="1" catinpostpath="1"]

  I think it’s always a good idea to use the full set of attributes so that you get exactly what you want rather than what the shortcode defaults to, plus it helps to avoid confusion. The above shortcode would produce a breadcrumb like this:

  Home > The name of my blog > [The category name] > [The title of the post]

  The anchor text “The name of my blog” would be linked to the WordPress page whose ID number is 1234. You’ll need to change the blogpageid value so that it links to the blog page you created, the one on which you have used a [blog] shortcode on it with appropriate attributes.

  References:
  http://para.llel.us/themes/razor-wp/shortcodes/miscellaneous/
  http://para.llel.us/themes/razor-wp/shortcodes/blog/

• queendigital

  said

  Thank Jeff.

  This all works fine.
  I have set now the Reading >>> Your latest posts

  Still, when viewing a specific post the breadcrumbs shows:

  Home > Blog > News > my post title

  Where is the word “Blog” feeds from? also, my permalink are set to %postname% so theoretically it should only be:

  Home > my post title

  Thanks,
  Dan.

• jeffw

  said

  HI, Dan.

  The [breadcrumbs] shortcode is not related in any way to the WordPress permalinks, it is a totally separate thing. If you don’t provide a value for the blog attribute then it defaults to the word “Blog”.

  In your breadcrumb example, the “News” text is the category name. You can set the shortcode attributes so that the category name is omitted and then name your blog “News”.

  [breadcrumbs home="Home" blog="News" sep=">" blogpageid="1234" prefix="" archiveprefix="" searchprefix="" boldlast="1" catinpostpath="0"]

  The above shortcode would result in a breadcrumb like this:

  Home > News > my post title

  Don’t forget to set the blogpageid value to the actual ID number of your actual blog page, the one on which you have used a [blog] shortcode on it with appropriate attributes.

• queendigital

  said

  Jeff,

  at present my “Blog” page is named “News” (slug and title), in it i have inserted:

  [blog category="28" style="1" posts_per_page="5" paging="false" image_width="210" image_height="190" excerpt_length="50" read_more="read more" show_category_list="false" orderby="date"]

  That’s it,

  From there it displays my posts, and once i click a post i get the breadcrumbs (i didn’t insert the breadcrumbs shortcode anywhere)

  This is why im a bit confused with your above suggestion.

  Dan.

• jeffw

  said

  Hi, Dan.

  If there is a question in your last post then I can’t spot it.

• jeffw

  said

  Is it that you can’t see where to modify the [breadcrumbs] shortcode? If so, look in Static Content > Static Blocks at the static block entitled “Breadcrumbs”. Several of the layouts (Appearance > Layouts) include a container at the top of the content area that references this static block.

• queendigital

  said

  Thanks Jeff, yes now it was made clear to me that the [breadcrumbs] are controlled from the content blocks.

  I have used your example above:
  [breadcrumbs home="Home" blog="News" sep=">" blogpageid="1234" prefix="" archiveprefix="" searchprefix="" boldlast="1" catinpostpath="0"]

  it works fine only now i lost the “>” signs .

  So it looks like this: Home News my post title
  instead of : Home > News > my post title

  thoughts?

• jeffw

  said

  You can set the separator with the sep attribute.

  I’ve tested the code I posted above …

  http://para.llel.us/support/groups/razor/forum/topic/blog-post-breadcrumbs/#post-45190

  … and it works fine, separator and all.

  Don’t forget to set the blogpageid value to the actual ID number of your actual blog page, the one on which you have used a [blog] shortcode on it with appropriate attributes.

  Make sure that you are not putting smart (curly) quotes around attribute values, and always stick to using the Text editor when your content includes shortcodes.

  N.B. To include code in your posts – such as shortcodes, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP – please follow the instructions on the forum home page. The reason why you should always do this is because otherwise WordPress will turn the quotes in your code into curly quotes and then anyone copying and pasting that code will have issues because you can’t use curly quotes in code.

• queendigital

  said

  Spot on! it was indded the issue with pasting to the visual editor.

  Thank a lot Jeff!

  Dan.

• tobiasweltner

  said

  I had the very same problem with multiple “blog” entries, and yes I changed the landing page to a static page.
  What I *must* do is set the landing page to the Activities page. Is there a way to achieve this without a static page?

• jeffw

  said

  HI, tobiasweltner.

  Your question has nothing at all to do with the subject of this topic. Please start a new topic for this new question you asked. We like to keep each topic in the Help Center focused on a single subject. It really helps other users to find information and it prevents threads from wandering down Tangent Lane. If you don’t mind, please always create a new topic for each separate issue that you have.