{"id":21,"date":"2014-06-20T13:56:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diananichols.wpengine.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2016-09-22T06:49:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T10:49:58","slug":"breadcrumbs-without-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpwhatnot.com\/breadcrumbs-without-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Breadcrumbs Without a Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easily create your own breadcrumbs without using a plugin.<\/p>\n<p>Place in functions.php, and call with: the_breadcrumb().<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-syntax-highlighter\">\n<pre><textarea id=\"mshighlighter\" class=\"mshighlighter\" language=\"php\" name=\"mshighlighter\" >function the_breadcrumb() {\r\n    global $post;\r\n    echo '&lt;ul id=\"breadcrumbs\"&gt;';\r\n    if (!is_front_page()) {    \r\n          if (!is_home()) {\r\n        echo '&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"';\r\n        echo get_option('home');\r\n        echo '\"&gt;';\r\n        echo 'Home';\r\n               echo '&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li class=\"separator\"&gt; \/ &lt;\/li&gt;';\r\n               if (is_category() || is_single()) {\r\n                    echo '&lt;li&gt;';\r\n                    the_category(' &lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li class=\"separator\"&gt; \/ &lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; ');\r\n                    if (is_single()) {\r\n                         echo '&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li class=\"separator\"&gt; \/ &lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;';\r\n                         the_title();\r\n                         echo '&lt;\/li&gt;';\r\n                    }\r\n               } elseif (is_page()) {\r\n                    if($post-&gt;post_parent){\r\n                         $anc = get_post_ancestors( $post-&gt;ID );\r\n                         $anc=array_reverse ( $anc );\r\n                         $title = get_the_title();\r\n                         $output='';\r\n                         foreach ( $anc as $ancestor ) {\r\n                              $output .= '&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"'.get_permalink($ancestor).'\" title=\"'.get_the_title($ancestor).'\"&gt;'.get_the_title($ancestor).'&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/li&gt; &lt;li class=\"separator\"&gt;\/&lt;\/li&gt;';\r\n                         }\r\n                         echo $output;\r\n                         echo '&lt;li title=\"'.$title.'\"&gt; '.$title.'&lt;\/li&gt;';\r\n                    } else {\r\n                         echo '&lt;li&gt; '.get_the_title().'&lt;\/li&gt;';\r\n                    }\r\n               }\r\n          }\r\n    }\r\n    elseif (is_tag()) {single_tag_title();}\r\n    elseif (is_day()) {echo\"&lt;li&gt;Archive for \"; the_time('F jS, Y'); echo'&lt;\/li&gt;';}\r\n    elseif (is_month()) {echo\"&lt;li&gt;Archive for \"; the_time('F, Y'); echo'&lt;\/li&gt;';}\r\n    elseif (is_year()) {echo\"&lt;li&gt;Archive for \"; the_time('Y'); echo'&lt;\/li&gt;';}\r\n    elseif (is_author()) {echo\"&lt;li&gt;Author Archive\"; echo'&lt;\/li&gt;';}\r\n    elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) &amp;&amp; !empty($_GET['paged'])) {echo \"&lt;li&gt;Blog Archives\"; echo'&lt;\/li&gt;';}\r\n    elseif (is_search()) {echo\"&lt;li&gt;Search Results\"; echo'&lt;\/li&gt;';}\r\n    echo '&lt;\/ul&gt;';\r\n}<\/textarea><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easily create your own breadcrumbs without using a plugin. 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