Carbon Breadcrumbs
A basic WordPress plugin for breadcrumbs with advanced capabilities for extending.
4.8(4 reviews)
·60 active installs·Updated 9 years agoAs of April 2026, Carbon Breadcrumbs is a WordPress admin plugin with 60 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Loginizer.
4.8/54 reviews
60active installs
3.1K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Provides the theme and plugin developers an easy way to build and implement highly customizable breadcrumb functionality, specifically tailored to their needs.
Supports a lot of filters and hooks, and is written in OOP style, giving developers full control over the breadcrumb trail items and appearance.
This plugin can also be embedded in themes, instead of installing it as a WordPress plugin.
Configuration
The most basic way to insert Carbon Breadcrumbs in your theme code is:
<?php Carbon_Breadcrumb_Trail::output(); ?>
If you want to specify various breadcrumb rendering options, you can specify them in an array, like this:
<?php
Carbon_Breadcrumb_Trail::output(array(
'glue' => ' > ', // glue between breadcrumb items
'link_before' => '',
'link_after' =&g…Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.8+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.0.2
Tested with WordPress 4.5.
Contributors
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