I just released a free plugin (for EE v1) that does automatic breadcrumb generation based on the structure of URLs that are being used by the built in Pages module. I think this would come in extremely handy for anyone using the Pages module and it can also be configured pretty quickly.

You can find it at: http://www.matt-toigo.com/crumbum

At this point I’m mostly looking for feedback and bug reports so I can ensure that it works for the widest possible range of EE users. I’m also playing around with adding other features such as exporting a site’s URL structure as XML.

Hopefully this won’t get blasted off as self promotion since I’m not making any money off of this in any way and just want to give something back to the EE Community which has been so great to me.

Hi Matt,

Just tried this out in EE2 and found it works great, thanks!

I’m using the Pages module so it works well.

Even for my dynamic sections, I still have a static /news/ page in the Pages module with intro text in, even though I then use another template (news/index) for loading the dynamic entries.

I’ve found that when loading /news/my-dynamic-entry/, the breadcrumb outputted as Home > News, so that’s fairly nice degrading even when not using an entry from the Pages module, and it certainly acceptable for this sort of use.

Out of interest, I don’t suppose this plugin could ever cater for non-Pages module pages in this way could it?  So load the above page as Home > News > My Dynamic Entry?

Thanks.

Hey,

The easiest way to handle this with dynamic content is to just actualy use the {title} of the post as the last breadcrumb from within an {exp:weblog:entries} tag. Let me know if this works and I’m glad to hear people are using the extension and like it. If you spot any bugs let me know since I’ve been almost too busy to test as EE has been releasing updates.

Matt

Thanks Matt, I’ll give that a go.