Multiple parents for a page

  • Maybe I’m not fully understanding the purpose of breadcrumbs but I thought that it would show a history of how a user got to a page rather than a page position in a hierarchy. The latter will be fine but I have a structure where I would like a page to be in two hierarchies at the same time i.e.

    Page1 << Page 2 << Page 3 and
    Page4 << Page 5 << Page 3

    I am setting the parent of Page 3 to be Page 2, so if I descend to Page 3 via Page 5, the breadcrumb shows Page1 << Page 2 << Page 3.

    Is there an easy (or any) way around this please so that the breadcrumb shows the parents through which the user clicked in order to get to the page ?

    Thanks
    Ron

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • Plugin Author John Havlik

    (@mtekk)

    Breadcrumb NavXT generates locational breadcrumb trails, which assume resources have only one true location. Breadcrumbs that are actual histories of the user’s traversal are called path breadcrumb trails, and they aren’t really useful (they duplicate the browser history).

    If you are talking about actual pages (as in instances of the Page post type), WordPress only allows a page to have one direct parent. Unfortunately, if you are talking about instances of the Page post type, then what you are talking about isn’t actually possible.

    If you are talking about multiple term hierarchies (of the same taxonomy, e.g. multiple categories) that a single post (of any type) belongs to, then that is supported through the Breadcrumb NavXT Paths extension plugin.

    If you are talking about a single post belonging to multiple terms from multiple taxonomies, then Breadcrumb NavXT 5.5.0 introduced a feature to implement taxonomy switching/picking based on the visitor’s path to the post.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by John Havlik.

    Where can I find this “Breadcrumb NavXT Paths extension plugin”? I’m looking for a way to control which category (in the parent-structure) should be shown to the user.

    Plugin Author John Havlik

    (@mtekk)

    As with all of the extension plugins for Breadcrumb NavXT, you can find them on the author’s site. For reference, see the release announcement for Breadcrumb NavXT Paths.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • The topic ‘Multiple parents for a page’ is closed to new replies.