Blocksy’s Breadcrumbs system helps visitors understand where they are within your website’s hierarchy and provides a convenient way to navigate back through parent sections. Breadcrumbs are supported across posts, pages, archives, WooCommerce content and properly registered Custom Post Types.
To configure the global Breadcrumbs behaviour, navigate to Customiser → General Options → Breadcrumbs.
Quick Look
Granular Controls
The global Breadcrumbs panel controls the structure and information displayed inside Blocksy’s breadcrumb trail.
- Separator Style – choose the symbol displayed between individual breadcrumb items.
- Home Item Display – display the home entry as text or use a home icon.
- Current Page Visibility – choose whether the current page or entry is included at the end of the breadcrumb trail.
- Taxonomy Title Inclusion – include the relevant category, tag or custom taxonomy title where supported.
- Shop & Blog Page Inclusion – include the dedicated Shop or Posts page in breadcrumb trails where those pages would otherwise be omitted from the hierarchy.
Displaying Breadcrumbs
The global Breadcrumbs panel configures how breadcrumb trails behave, while their default visibility is controlled separately for each supported content type.
Open the relevant post type or archive panel in the Customiser, enter its Title section, and use the visibility control next to the Breadcrumbs element to show or hide it.
Placing Breadcrumbs Manually
Breadcrumbs Shortcode
If you need to place the breadcrumb trail somewhere other than its standard title-area location, Blocksy provides a shortcode that can be inserted into supported content areas:
[ blocksy_breadcrumbs ]
Add this shortcode wherever you want Blocksy’s breadcrumb trail to be rendered manually.
This is useful when building custom layouts where the standard Page Title placement does not match the desired design.
Breadcrumbs Block
Blocksy also provides a dedicated Breadcrumbs Block for the WordPress block editor. It can be inserted directly into posts, pages and custom templates wherever a block-based breadcrumb trail is preferred.
Third-Party Breadcrumb Providers
If your website already uses a dedicated SEO or breadcrumb plugin, Blocksy can use its breadcrumb output instead of the built-in provider.
Supported integrations include:
- Rank Math
- Yoast SEO
- SEOPress
- Breadcrumb NavXT
When Blocksy detects a supported plugin, the corresponding provider becomes available under Customiser → General Options → Breadcrumbs. Selecting it lets Blocksy’s breadcrumb placements use the provider generated by that plugin.
Primary Taxonomy
A post can belong to several categories or taxonomy terms, but you may want one particular term to represent the post within its breadcrumb hierarchy.
SEO plugins such as Yoast SEO and Rank Math can provide a primary category or primary taxonomy option for this purpose. When available, open the post in the WordPress editor and select the preferred primary term from the taxonomy controls provided by the plugin.
The exact location and availability of this setting depends on the selected SEO plugin. If the option is not available, refer to that plugin’s documentation for its primary taxonomy configuration.