Now I would like to use Bricks breadcrumbs. Unfortunately I don’t understand how it works. The path is not as I had hoped (the categories are missing): https://example.com/cpt-something/the-post/
I’m also having this issue - the breadcrumb element completely misses out the taxonomy and CPT structure having just Home > CPT Post rather than Home > CPT Archive > CPT Taxonomy > CPT Post
Any guidance would be appreciated from the Bricks team! Thanks!
here
it works well on singles
test it more on other pages
function custom_breadcrumbs() {
// Start of the breadcrumb list
echo '<ul class="breadcrumbs">';
echo '<li><a href="' . get_home_url() . '">Home</a></li>';
// Check if the current view is a category, single post, taxonomy, or archive page
if (is_category() || is_single() || is_tax() || is_archive()) {
$post_type = get_post_type();
// If the post type is not a standard post, display its type in the breadcrumb
if ($post_type != 'post') {
$post_type_object = get_post_type_object($post_type);
$post_type_archive = get_post_type_archive_link($post_type);
echo '<li><a href="' . $post_type_archive . '">' . $post_type_object->labels->singular_name . '</a></li>';
}
// If viewing a single post, display its categories in the breadcrumb
if (is_single()) {
$categories = get_the_category();
if ($categories) {
foreach ($categories as $category) {
echo '<li><a href="' . get_category_link($category->term_id) . '">' . $category->name . '</a></li>';
}
}
// Display the current post title
echo '<li>' . get_the_title() . '</li>';
} elseif (is_tax()) {
// If viewing a taxonomy, display the current term
$current_term = get_queried_object();
echo '<li><a href="' . get_term_link($current_term) . '">' . $current_term->name . '</a></li>';
} elseif (is_archive()) {
// If viewing an archive, display the archive title
$archive_title = post_type_archive_title('', false);
echo '<li>' . $archive_title . '</li>';
}
} elseif (is_page()) {
// If viewing a page, display the page title
echo '<li>' . get_the_title() . '</li>';
}
// End of the breadcrumb list
echo '</ul>';
}
// Function call to generate the breadcrumbs
custom_breadcrumbs();
I am having the exact issue with Metabox CPT and custom taxonomies. Did you figure it out?
I think it’s a bug. In the editor, it looks correct, but on the front-end, it misses an item.
It works correctly on the Type: Single templates, but when the template is set to Archive, it doesn’t work correctly, no matter what I do…
What is worse is that it works in the Bricks Editor, it even appears to be working fine when you enter Bricks Preview mode, but on the actual FrontEnd - nope!
Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to solve the problem with bricks alone. “Rank Math” is my friend here - it gives me the breadcrumb I want. You can take a look at this page as an example: Platin, das Element - Geschichte, Vorkommen, Verwendung
I found a possible solution for the @nettl-td issue of the missing post type archive link, when viewing taxonomy archive.
Seems like at bricks theme ‘includes/elements/breadcrumbs.php’ line 388 ‘$show_archive’ is done to recieve post archive item, but this part is skipped for ‘is_category()’ at line 475. I am not sure if it’s a bug or an intended feature.
Anyway, digging trough the file I found an undocumented filter
‘bricks/breadcrumbs/items’
Using it I could add additional breadcrumbs item for my default blog post archives/taxonomies:
add_filter( 'bricks/breadcrumbs/items', function( $breadcrumb_items ) {
// Check if we are on a category archive page
if ( is_category() ) {
// Get the post type object for "post" (or replace with your custom post type)
$post_type = get_post_type_object( 'post' );
if ( $post_type ) {
// Generate the post type archive link
$post_type_link = get_post_type_archive_link( $post_type->name );
$post_type_label = $post_type->labels->name ?? $post_type->label;
// Insert the post type archive link at the second position (after "Home")
array_splice( $breadcrumb_items, 1, 0, sprintf(
'<a class="item" href="%s">%s</a>',
esc_url( $post_type_link ),
esc_html( $post_type_label )
));
}
}
return $breadcrumb_items;
});
This should work for CPT and other stuff too, just change the code accordingly. It let’s you to add completelly custom breadcrumbs items too
Dunno if this filter is up to stay for long, but it works at current Bricks version (2.0 alpha).
Hey, yeah, it goes to child theme functions.php file.
Be sure to do this first on your site developement copy, and with backups too, just in case. (It shouldn’t break anything, it’s not really possible in this case, but if you are complete newbie, trying out stuff is best on seperate site + with backups. Less stress )
As for what the whole code block does, ‘add_filter’ is overriding some default Bricks function (breadcrumb items) → where we check if we are on category archive page, then we are getting the post object and if it exists → we ‘array_splice’ (add to the breadcrumbs) to add our custom link.
Claude and ChatGPT is really helpful at explaining what does what, by the way, especially if you want to add some additional your own functionality.
