Simple microdata-enabled breadcrumbs generator
As of April 2026, Hansel & Gretel: Fine-Tuned Breadcrumb Generator is a WordPress crumb plugin with 200 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: BreadcrumbsPress.
Let’s face it: breadcrumbs are an integral part of websites these days. They give an immediate sense of hierarchy to your visitors and allow users to backtrack through your site to (hopefully) find more content. WordPress simplifies structuring sites how ever it seems reasonable, but it takes a bit more effort to generate breadcrumbs for all the different types of posts, and pages, and taxonomies, and archives, and … you get the idea.
Sure! And a lot of them work really well for simple sites with simple hierarchies, but many of them fall short in one way or the other:
Want to use the new semantic
<nav>element?
Nope sorry…
| WordPress | 3.1.0+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Checkout the GitHub Repository for the full changelog!
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