Adding Breadcrumbs to WordPress

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I came across a very useful bit of code for adding breadcrumbs to WordPress without a plugin at http://dimox.net/wordpress-breadcrumbs-without-a-plugin/

There was a small bug in the code where is search returnd anything but a standard post (e.g. a page or custom post type) the search breadcrumb didn’t work.  The code below is the modification to correct that issue.   For installation instructions (basically put it in your themes functions.php)  and any other issues with the code please refer back to the original blog  here http://dimox.net/wordpress-breadcrumbs-without-a-plugin/

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/* breadcrumbs from http://dimox.net/wordpress-breadcrumbs-without-a-plugin/ */
/* is_search position modified */
function dimox_breadcrumbs() {

$showOnHome = 0; // 1 – show breadcrumbs on the homepage, 0 – don’t show
$delimiter = ‘»’; // delimiter between crumbs
$home = ‘Home’; // text for the ‘Home’ link
$showCurrent = 1; // 1 – show current post/page title in breadcrumbs, 0 – don’t show
$before = ‘<span class="current">’; // tag before the current crumb
$after = ‘</span>’; // tag after the current crumb

global $post;
$homeLink = get_bloginfo(‘url’);

if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {

if ($showOnHome == 1) echo ‘</pre>
<div id="crumbs"><a href="’ . $homeLink . ‘">’ . $home . ‘</a></div>
<pre>’;

} else {

echo ‘</pre>
<div id="crumbs"><a href="’ . $homeLink . ‘">’ . $home . ‘</a> ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘;

if ( is_category() ) {
global $wp_query;
$cat_obj = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
$thisCat = $cat_obj->term_id;
$thisCat = get_category($thisCat);
$parentCat = get_category($thisCat->parent);
if ($thisCat->parent != 0) echo(get_category_parents($parentCat, TRUE, ‘ ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘));
echo $before . ‘Archive by category "’ . single_cat_title(”, false) . ‘"’ . $after;

} elseif ( is_search() ) {
echo $before . ‘Search results for "’ . get_search_query() . ‘"’ . $after;

} elseif ( is_day() ) {
echo ‘<a href="’ . get_year_link(get_the_time(‘Y’)) . ‘">’ . get_the_time(‘Y’) . ‘</a> ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘;
echo ‘<a href="’ . get_month_link(get_the_time(‘Y’),get_the_time(‘m’)) . ‘">’ . get_the_time(‘F’) . ‘</a> ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘;
echo $before . get_the_time(‘d’) . $after;

} elseif ( is_month() ) {
echo ‘<a href="’ . get_year_link(get_the_time(‘Y’)) . ‘">’ . get_the_time(‘Y’) . ‘</a> ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘;
echo $before . get_the_time(‘F’) . $after;

} elseif ( is_year() ) {
echo $before . get_the_time(‘Y’) . $after;

} elseif ( is_single() && !is_attachment() ) {
if ( get_post_type() != ‘post’ ) {
$post_type = get_post_type_object(get_post_type());
$slug = $post_type->rewrite;
echo ‘<a href="’ . $homeLink . ‘/’ . $slug[‘slug’] . ‘/">’ . $post_type->labels->singular_name . ‘</a> ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘;
if ($showCurrent == 1) echo $before . get_the_title() . $after;
} else {
$cat = get_the_category(); $cat = $cat[0];
echo get_category_parents($cat, TRUE, ‘ ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘);
if ($showCurrent == 1) echo $before . get_the_title() . $after;
}

} elseif ( !is_single() && !is_page() && get_post_type() != ‘post’ && !is_404() ) {
$post_type = get_post_type_object(get_post_type());
echo $before . $post_type->labels->singular_name . $after;

} elseif ( is_attachment() ) {
$parent = get_post($post->post_parent);
$cat = get_the_category($parent->ID); $cat = $cat[0];
echo get_category_parents($cat, TRUE, ‘ ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘);
echo ‘<a href="’ . get_permalink($parent) . ‘">’ . $parent->post_title . ‘</a> ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘;
if ($showCurrent == 1) echo $before . get_the_title() . $after;

} elseif ( is_page() && !$post->post_parent ) {
if ($showCurrent == 1) echo $before . get_the_title() . $after;

} elseif ( is_page() && $post->post_parent ) {
$parent_id = $post->post_parent;
$breadcrumbs = array();
while ($parent_id) {
$page = get_page($parent_id);
$breadcrumbs[] = ‘<a href="’ . get_permalink($page->ID) . ‘">’ . get_the_title($page->ID) . ‘</a>’;
$parent_id = $page->post_parent;
}
$breadcrumbs = array_reverse($breadcrumbs);
foreach ($breadcrumbs as $crumb) echo $crumb . ‘ ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘;
if ($showCurrent == 1) echo $before . get_the_title() . $after;

} elseif ( is_tag() ) {
echo $before . ‘Posts tagged "’ . single_tag_title(”, false) . ‘"’ . $after;

} elseif ( is_author() ) {
global $author;
$userdata = get_userdata($author);
echo $before . ‘Articles posted by ‘ . $userdata->display_name . $after;

} elseif ( is_404() ) {
echo $before . ‘Error 404’ . $after;
}

if ( get_query_var(‘paged’) ) {
if ( is_category() || is_day() || is_month() || is_year() || is_search() || is_tag() || is_author() ) echo ‘ (‘;
echo __(‘Page’) . ‘ ‘ . get_query_var(‘paged’);
if ( is_category() || is_day() || is_month() || is_year() || is_search() || is_tag() || is_author() ) echo ‘)’;
}

echo ‘</div>
<pre>’;

}
} // end dimox_breadcrumbs()
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