[Support request] Issue with Yoast breadcrumb

[Malcolm]

I’m having trouble showing the complete hierarchy of pages in my location breadcrumb. See https://malagaeast.com/nerja-caves-of-nerja/ (I’m using Yoast’s breadcrumb plugin).

I think it should show: Home > The Villages > Coastal > Nerja >Where to visit>Nerja caves

I’ve read that breadcrumbs don’t work with all themes. However, as part of my breadcrumb seems to be displayed, I don’t think that’s wholly the case with GeneratePress.

Any ideas, what might be going wrong (or what I might be doing wrong!)?

Regards
Malcolm

[David]

Hi Malcom,

go to the Yoast > Search Appearance > Bread crumbs tab and then look for: Taxonomy to show in breadcrumbs for content types. Here you can add Categories to your Posts.

[Malcolm]

Hi David

Thanks for that, but I had already put that one in… I wonder whether it’s one of the other fields that I’ve left blank (i.e. under both ‘Taxonomy to show in breadcrumbs for content types’ or ‘Content type archive to show in breadcrumbs for taxonomies’)? At the moment they’re just reading ‘None’.

[David]

Hi Malcom, can you check you have the latest version of Yoast?

[Malcolm]

Hi David, Yes, I’ve just updated to version 7.5.1

[David]

Hi Malcom, sorry for the delay, i wanted to check to see if there were any update issues, for me i cant replicate the problem, can you try #1 here:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/debugging-tips/

If the issue still persists you may need to raise a support ticket with Yoast

[Malcolm]

Hi David

I turned off all the plugins as suggested, but doing that meant that Yoast’s breadcrumb didn’t show up because I put it on the page via a widget in Elementor, the page builder I use! When I turned Elementor back on, the breadcrumb was as before, so I guess that might indicate that Elementor is the problem.

I’d be surprised if Elementor’s clashing with one of the major plugins on the market – Yoast – though. I’ve been quite happy with Elementor so far, it seems to have played nice with all the other plugins – in fact the reasons I got GeneratePress was on the recommendation of Elementor!

I’m not sure how to test if Elementor’s the problem though… (I tried turning on SiteOrigin Page Builder and turning off Elementor, but everything on the page just disappeared!). Ahh!

[David]

You can try adding the breadcrumb code to the GP Hooks – use the after header hook

[Malcolm]

That sounds way beyond my pay grade, I’m going to have to research that one!

[David]

OK, so make sure you have hooks activated, under Appearance > GenearatePress. This will give you the Appearance > GP Hooks menu.

Look for the After Header Hook. And add this code:

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

Check the Execute PHP and Save. Then let us know the result.

[Malcolm]

OK, thanks, will get back to you with the results in the morning!

[Malcolm]

Sorry for the delay David, the weekend got in the way!

I’ve put the code in that you suggested. While I’m happy that I don’t now have to keep putting in the Yoast widget into every page to enable its breadcrumb, it’s still not showing the full hierarchy…

I really don’t understand why it doesn’t work in the same way as the top menu which clearly follows the hierarchy of pages? Or am I missing something?

[David]

Hi Malcom, i set up a new test site, using the following settings:

Settings > Permalinks:
Common Settings: Post Name
Optional: Category and Tags bases both left blank.

SEO > Search Appearance:
Categories left as default
Breadcrumbs, Show Blog Page Enabled, Taxonomy to show in breadcrumbs for content types, only Post (post) is set to Category. Rest as default.

Can you text or confirm these settings?

[Malcolm]

Hi, I can confirm that these are now my settings. No change to appearance of the breadcrumbs on my site though…

[David]

Hi Malcolm, apologies but i have exhausted all my ideas on this, I would recommend you raise a support ticket with Yoast.

Let us know

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