A simple shortcode to include Yoast's breadcrumb function everywhere on your WordPress website.
As of April 2026, Surbma is a WordPress Yoast plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 36K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 18% this week. Top alternative: ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO.
A simple shortcode to include Yoast SEO’s breadcrumb function everywhere on your WordPress website. You have to install and activate the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin and enable breadcrumb option to use this shortcode.
With this shortcode you can put Yoast’s fantastic breadcrumb feature manually into every post and page or even into custom post types. If your theme supports it, you can use this shortcode in your widget areas with the Text widget.
The shortcode:
[yoast-breadcrumb]
There are two parameters for this shortcode:
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Works like described
Thanks for this plugin, works well !
Pascal
I like the idea of this plugin. It picks up where the Yoast plugin leaves off by adding breadcrumbs to the rest of your pages which Google is looking for. I just can’t get it running on WordPress 4.3.1.
Although adding the Yoast code to our theme wasn’t an issue however I didn’t like where the breadcrumbs appeard. A search found this handy little plugin.
Perfect!
Super simple to install and add to any page or post.
However, adding it manually instead of a sitewide setting can be bit of a problem. It would be nice to see some basic settings of customizing it, such as no background or background transparency, change text color etc.
Can you please provide the CSS code to modify it?
See an example of what we did:
http://www.stressebook.com/blog/
This one was in the blog settings feature area, where you can add HTML, shortcodes or anything else to show up just below the header.
<div class="breadcrumb">
<pre><code>[yoast-breadcrumb]</code></pre>
</div>
We can also add it within each blog post at the top of the post in the editor. We used the HTML tab instead of the View tab in the editor.
Here is another example:
http://www.stressebook.com/good-stress-engineer-qualities-part-4/
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Release date: 2026-03-27
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