Yoast Breadcrumb Trail not linking to my pages

Hello Danellesmit,

Thanks for reaching out regarding your breadcrumb trail.

Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty.

Please test this on your development or staging site if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts

If you feel uncomfortable doing this yourself or if this does not solve your issue, our Yoast SEO Premium plugin comes with one year of (technical) support.

Thank you for your quick response, but there seem to be no conflict with my current Theme or Plugins. No errors were detected.

@danellesmit Thanks for your reply and confirming that you’ve performed a conflict check.

Can you please confirm that both breadcrumbs are enabled in the plugin? You can enable Breadcrumbs by performing the following steps:

? Go to Yoast SEO>Search Appearance>Breadcrumbs
? Toggle the setting for ‘Enable Breadcrumbs in your theme’ to ‘Enabled’
? Click ‘Save Changes’

After confirming that breadcrumbs are enabled on the site, can you next confirm that you have added the necessary code to where you want the breadcrumbs to appear in your theme’s respective PHP file? The code for the breadcrumbs is as follows:

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

Depending on your theme you may or may not need to add in the beginning <?php and ending ?> php tags. If you are not sure, we would recommend contacting your theme’s developer for additional assistance.

Common places where you could place your breadcrumbs are inside your single.php and/or page.php file just above the page’s title. Another option that makes it really easy in some themes is by just pasting the code in header.php at the very end.

Also, we have directions for implementing the Yoast breadcrumbs at the following link: How to implement Yoast SEO breadcrumbs.

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