# Breadcrumb Component Issue with Multi-Level Category Hierarchy
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/breadcrumb-component-issue-with-multi-level-category-hierarchy/366014
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 14, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/breadcrumb-component-issue-with-multi-level-category-hierarchy/366014 "2025-05-14T00:47:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Steve\_John](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steve_John)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/breadcrumb-component-issue-with-multi-level-category-hierarchy/366014/1 "2025-05-14T00:47:08Z")
Hi everyone,
We’ve recently installed the Breadcrumb component ([Breadcrumb Links](https://meta.discourse.org/t/breadcrumb-links/325372)) 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 hierarchy like Home/A/B/C, where A, B, and C represent multi-level categories, the breadcrumb display shows “Home/B/C” and skips category A altogether.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a workaround to ensure that all levels of the hierarchy show up in the breadcrumb trail, or is this a limitation of the current Discourse setup?
Thanks for any insights!
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### Author:  [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 9:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/breadcrumb-component-issue-with-multi-level-category-hierarchy/366014/4 "2025-05-14T09:14:05Z")
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 add support for further nesting of categories, you could ask the maintainer if that’s an option they’d consider as a PR. However, as this is targeting a non-default Discourse setup you might need to fork the component to include the feature.
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### Author:  [@Steve\_John](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steve_John)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/breadcrumb-component-issue-with-multi-level-category-hierarchy/366014/5 "2025-05-19T06:58:50Z")
Thanks Nolo for the update on the Breadcrumb current theme component limitation.