[Resolved] Breadcrumbs not working on pages

[Leon Rowan]

Hello,

GP Premium with Elements enabled.

I’ve been reading:

Adding Breadcrumbs – Documentation
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-breadcrumbs/

…and:

Implement Yoast SEO breadcrumbs – Yoast Knowledge Base
https://kb.yoast.com/kb/implement-wordpress-seo-breadcrumbs/

…yet the breadcrumbs don’t display on pages. They do on blog posts.

I have entered the shortcode correctly: “Add the shortcode provided by Yoast in this article:”

I have [ wpseo_breadcrumb ] on line 1 and that is it. (Note: in shortcode, there are NO spaces between brackets and letters – I had to do that here to get the shortcode to display.)

I added a location rule and set it to Pages/All Pages

All other settings are as described in the GP article. I have Yoast Breadcrumbs enabled in the Yoast plugin settings too.

I have used Yoast in the past but never had to do this before because previous themes had a simple breadcrumb setting which was easy for the technically challenged like me.

I cleared my cache, checked in Brave incognito.

Thanks for your help.

[Leo]

Hi there,

Which hook are you currently using?

I checked the single post Website Dedevelopment and don’t see breadcrumbs there either?

[Leon Rowan]

Hello Leo,

Thanks for your response.

I am using the before_entry_title hook as suggested in the GP article.

Apologies that the blog breadcrumbs weren’t visible – I had been experimenting with possible solutions and at one stage had to restore my site.

Among other things, I tried making a separate hook for pages.

[Leon Rowan]

I have finished my research and have a resolution, – though it is not what I originally planned – some observations, and a question.

After disabling the original hook, I created another one except that this time I inserted:

<?php
if ( function_exists(‘yoast_breadcrumb’) ) {
yoast_breadcrumb(‘
<p id=”breadcrumbs”>’,'</p>
‘);
}
?>

and then selected ‘before_main_content”, ticked “Execute PHP”, selected Posts/All Posts and Pages/All Pages and excluded the front page.

The breadcrumbs now appear on both posts AND pages, and as it happens, in a better location (in my view).

I might add that when I tested “before_entry_title” the breadcrumbs appeared on posts, but NOT on pages – the same issue as before.

Do you have any idea why this is please? Is it a bug in GP perhaps?

Thank you.

[David]

Hi there,

the before_entry_title hook doesn’t exist on Pages. You can see all the main hooks here:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/hooks-visual-guide/

[Leon Rowan]

Thanks for letting me know David. That explains it.

[David]

You’re welcome

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