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How To Add Stylish Breadcrumbs Navigation In Blogger

By Ammar Ali 9 Comments

Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb is a navigation used in user interface, typically it appear horizontally across the top of a web page , after navigation, usually below title bars or headers in blog area. You can also find example of breadcrumbs in my blog after navigation. See a screenshot to know what actually are a breadcrumbs.

How To Add Stylish Breadcrumbs Navigation In Blogger

I suggest every Bloggers who are using Blogspot Platform to add breadcrumbs. This help people to easily know about your post and also it helps you in SEO purpose.

Typical breadcrumbs look like this:

Home page > Section page > Subsection page or Home page >> Section page >> Subsection page.

Backup You Template Before we add Breadcrumbs in Blogger

After backing up blogger template Follow below given simple steps on How To Add Stylish Breadcrumbs Navigation In Blogger

Table of Contents
  • Steps to Add Breadcrumbs in Blogger
  • Making It Cool with CSS

Steps to Add Breadcrumbs in Blogger

  • Login to Blogger Dashboard > Design > Edit Html
  • Find Below code

<b:include data='top' name='status-message'/>

and replace it wit this code:

<b:include data=’top’ name=’status-message’/>

<b:include data='posts' name='breadcrumb'/>

#Step 3. Now Find this code:

<b:includable id='main' var='top'>e

 

  • and replace it with below code
<b:includable id='breadcrumb' var='posts'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.homepageUrl == data:blog.url'>
<!-- No breadcrumb on home page -->
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<!-- breadcrumb for the post page -->
<p class='breadcrumbs'>
<span class='post-labels'>
<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl' rel='tag'>Home</a>
<b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'>
<b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<b:if cond='data:label.isLast == "true"'> »
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a>
</b:if>
</b:loop>
<b:else/>
» Unlabelled
</b:if>
» <span><data:post.title/></span>
</b:loop>
</span>
</p>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'>
<!-- breadcrumb for the label archive page and search pages.. -->
<p class='breadcrumbs'>
<span class='post-labels'>
<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » Archives for <data:blog.pageName/>
</span>
</p>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<p class='breadcrumbs'>
<span class='post-labels'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageName == ""'>
<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » All posts
<b:else/>
<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » Posts filed under <data:blog.pageName/>
</b:if>
</span>
</p>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
<b:includable id='main' var='top'>

Making It Cool with CSS

To add cool effect to Breadcrumbs follow below steps.

  • Find this code
]]></b:skin>

and replace it with

/* Breadcrumbs Css info @ https://allbloggingtips.com */
.breadcrumbs {
padding:5px 5px 5px 0px;
margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
font-size:95%;
line-height: 1.4em;
border-bottom:2px solid #e6e4e3;}
]]></b:skin>
To add Hover Effect
  • Insert below code after adding code in above step
.breadcrumbs :hover{
border-bottom:2px dashed #e6e4e3;
background:#f1f1f1;
}
If you are using multiple labels for one post then this breadcrumbs will show only the last label you have added, so put label at end in Labels for this post: section for which you want to show in your breadcrumb.

That’s All. If you are using WordPress Theme than i will publish a article on How to Add Breadcrumbs in WordPress themes. Till keep visiting. Got any problem feel free to comment!

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About Ammar Ali

A blogger, web designer, front-end developer and WordPress specialist since 2011. I started this blog during high school. Here I share what I've learned so far and what I continue to learn through blogging so that I can be of assistance in some way to improve your blog. Read more here.

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Comments

  1. Jimmie Luthra says

    February 14, 2013 at 7:47 pm

    Not Working for me :( I’m getting this error

    “Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure that all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “data”.
    Error 500″

    Reply
    • Ammar Ali says

      February 14, 2013 at 9:27 pm

      Looks like the code is outdated. You can visit my friend blog to see new code. Hope it will work. http://www.stylifyyourblog.com/2012/08/breadcrumbs-for-blogger.html

      Reply
      • Jimmie Luthra says

        February 15, 2013 at 12:22 pm

        Thanks Ammar, Will Try it :)

        Reply
  2. Franklin says

    April 18, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    IN my blo when i add the older posts part is coming up,and making it such a mess.Please help me Ammar
    my blog -http://tune2tech101.blogspot.com/

    Reply
    • Ammar Ali says

      April 18, 2012 at 3:49 pm

      we are not able to understand your problem. can you send us screenshot?

      Reply
  3. Zeeshan waheed says

    January 2, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    Nice article i will definitely try this on my blog. Ammar please also write an article on how to customize or create 3 widgets footer in blogger.

    Reply
    • Ammar Ali says

      January 2, 2012 at 12:59 pm

      I had already write article on Create Cool 3 column footer in Blogger. Check it out here

      Reply
  4. BLOG404 says

    December 22, 2011 at 6:40 am

    I had this on Blogger and i must say its damn good for SEO . I am looking for WP now

    Reply
    • Ammar Ali says

      December 22, 2011 at 2:04 pm

      Ya. I Mention at end of the post that I will write article on adding breadcrumbs in blogger but you need to wait a little and keep visiting.

      Reply

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