Configuring Breadcrumbs

Updated on January 2, 2019

Breadcrumbs are a type of secondary horizontal navigation that display the user’s location on the website in a hierarchical way. It is especially important to use breadcrumb on big websites that contain a large amount of content in order to provide a better user experience.

In this article you can find information about disabling and enabling breadcrumb globally or only for a specific page, as well as configuring the breadcrumb design.


Disabling or Enabling Breadcrumbs

It is possible to enable or disable breadcrumb globally or only for a specific page.

To disable or enable breadcrumb globally:

1From the WordPress left menu, go to Theme Options > Page Title > Breadcrumbs.

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2Enable or disable the Breadcrumbs option according to your needs.

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3Click on Save Settings.

Disabling or Enabling Breadcrumb for a Specific Page

To disable or enable breadcrumb for a specific page:

1Edit a page or create a new page.
2Under the Jupiter Page Options section, enable or disable the Breadcrumb option according to your needs.

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3Click on Update or Publish.


Configuring the Design

There is only one option related to the breadcrumb design in Jupiter.

To configure the breadcrumb design:

1From the WordPress left menu, go to Theme Options > Page Title > Breadcrumbs.

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2On this page, you can configure the breadcrumb design settings.
Setting Description

Text Skin Sets the breadcrumb skin. There are only two skin options: for a light background and for a dark background.
3Click on Save Settings.

Configuring Breadcrumbs with Yoast SEO Plugin

Besides the current options that Jupiter provides, You can use Yoast SEO plugin for further customization of breadcrumbs. Yoast Plugins provides you extra power to configure anchor text, separators between breadcrumb items and prefixes for global or specific pages such as the archive or search pages.

Installing the Yoast SEO Plugin

1Go to Plugins > Add New.

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2Type Yoast SEO in the search field and click on Install Now.

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3Click on Activate.

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Configuring Breadcrumb with the Yoast SEO Plugin

1From the WordPress left menu, go to SEO > Search Appearance.
2Click on the Breadcrumbs tab.

This page has some options for configuring breadcrumb. Configure your breadcrumb settings according to your needs.

Setting Description

Separator between breadcrumbs Sets the breadcrumb separator.
Anchor text for the Homepage Sets the breadcrumb anchor text for the homepage.
Prefix for the breadcrumb path Sets the breadcrumb path prefix.
Prefix for Archive breadcrumbs Sets the breadcrumb prefix for the archive page.
Prefix for Search Page breadcrumbs Sets the breadcrumb prefix for the search page.
Breadcrumb for 404 Page Sets the breadcrumbs for the 404 page.


3Click on Save Changes.

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