Question About Breadcrumb Selection “ID” and “Name”

  • Resolved bward

    (@bward)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    Ran a test with breadcrumbs enabled and I noticed the “name” output (output below). I assume the breadcrumb would appear on the SERP as: Site Name > Article > Corvette.

    For our site, this would not be optimal. Ideally, it would follow our URL structure (example url: https://domain.com/cars/corvette/), so the breadcrumb would be: Site Name > Cars > Corvette. We setup our URLs to be as focused as possible.

    Is there a way to modify what “ID” is selected?

    If not, I can modify our taxonomies to get the desired output. However, since our URL structure is already ideal for our purpose, would breadcrumbs even provide any advantage?

    Thanks!

    <script type=”application/ld+json”>{“@context”:”https://schema.org&#8221;,”@type”:”BreadcrumbList”,”itemListElement”:[{“@type”:”ListItem”,”position”:1,”item”:{“@id”:”https://domain.com/&#8221;,“name”:”Site Name”}},{“@type”:”ListItem”,”position”:2,”item”:{“@id”:”https://domain.com/resource/article/&#8221;,“name”:”Article”}},{“@type”:”ListItem”,”position”:3,”item”:{“@id”:”https://domain.com/cars/corvette/“,“name”:”Corvette”}}]}</script>

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by bward.
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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    My apologies for getting back this late to you ??

    Just a heads-up: “Term” is WordPress-slang for any Category, Product Category, etc.

    The breadcrumb order is determined by the “primary term” selection, which you can find next or under the term selection of the post:

    1. When using the classic editor, you should see a radio-button appear to the right.
    2. When using the new block editor (Gutenberg), you should notice a selection-dropdown appear underneath when more than one term is selected.

    For example, see https://imgur.com/a/N7FtAn6.

    This option should modify the URL structure when using a %category% tag at wp-admin/options-permalink.php. It also affects the breadcrumb output.

    The breadcrumb’s advantage is that the URL output is more user-friendly. Non-web-savvy users tend not to read or even understand URLs. For more information, see Google’s documentation on breadcrumbs.

    Thread Starter bward

    (@bward)

    No worries. Thanks for the followup.

    It does not sound like there is a way to modify the behavior, and in any case, as you said, it is for the user to have an understandable URL, which we already do.

    So we are pre-breadcrumb enabled!

    Thanks and have a great one.

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