Hi everyone, We’ve recently installed the Breadcrumb component ( Breadcrumb Links ) to help navigate our multi-level category hierarchy. However, we’ve run into an issue. As I know, Discourse currently supports a maximum of 3 levels for multi-category creation. When viewing a topic that follows a hi…

By default Discourse supports categories and sub-categories. If you use sub-sub-categories, that’s a custom setup that you enabled on the server console. Right now the component doesn’t check for nested categories beyond the sub-category level. So it’s a limitation of the component. If you want to …

Breadcrumb Component Issue with Multi-Level Category Hierarchy

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Steve_John (Steve John) May 19, 2025, 6:58am 5

Thanks Nolo for the update on the Breadcrumb current theme component limitation.

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Breadcrumb Component Issue with Multi-Level Category Hierarchy

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