I’ve searched on this topic but can’t find any working solution. How do I add a simple basic breadcrumb showing categories, sub categories. E.g. Home / Tech Talks / WordPress I want to add it just below Top Navigation.

[image] Isn’t that a kind of breadcrumb? What are you asking, more specifically? Do you have a mockup maybe?

This is probably what @asugar had in mind. [image]

Hi @asugar . :wave: Would you mind elaborating a bit on what you mean? We call the categories and tags navigational aid “breadcrumbs”; @Canapin highlights them in their screenshot. [image] asugar: I want to add it just below Top Navigation. Normally I’d mention showing a screenshot and marki…

I should not guess what @asugar hopes to get, but perhaps similar than all other webpages — and WordPress mostly uses: navigational breadcrump builded using categories. But Discourse has only two level deep construction so it can be only home - category - subcategory (sure, there could be page numb…

Hello All. @Jagster is right in nailing it down. I wanted links to categories and sub categories. Like Home - Category - Sub category - Sub sub category - … I can see the existing navigation in discourse but it is not click and go to category/sub categories. On click it shows drop down. Is it rea…

[image] asugar: Is it really impossible to add simple navigation as I want? It is possible, what everyone was trying to say is that there may be an alternative solution different from what you are asking, and they were wondering if you’d be interested in that. That said, it is possible but no…

That’s navigation/menu and I already have that. Breadcrumb is not navigation/menu. I want breadcrumb.

I understand, that is why I used the word “similar”, they are similar in the sense that implementation or development is similar, not exactly the same or alike or even close to each other, but similar or should I say comparable. I shared that or mentioned they were similar because I felt it could b…

[breadcrumb] That is a typical breadcrumb found on any forum software, above is from vBulletin. This is what I was talking about.

The menu effectively is a breadcrumb (as in it shows category and subcategory, on category and subcategory pages) so I reckon you could change it from using dropdown menus to using plain old hyperlinks to the current category or subcategory. I bet anyone who knows how to write a plugin could do that…

How to add breadcrumb?

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Decorbuz April 3, 2022, 10:12pm 3

This is probably what @asugar had in mind.

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How to add breadcrumb?

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