Drupal’s Custom Breadcrumbs 2 Module Maximizes Your Online Path
Google recently rolled out a new feature that displays site hierarchies at the bottom of each search result. In case you missed it, check out our blog post from last week, Google Eats Drupal Breadcrumbs, Passes on Pie Normally, you would see a green URL below the link and link text that shows you where you are headed, but the green URL has now been replaced with a hierarchy that shows the precise location of the page on the website.
This was great news for the Drupal community because Drupal generates these site hierarchies, or breadcrumbs, right out of the box. Google is now using these breadcrumbs in their SERPs to help searchers, and anyone using the breadcrumbs feature in Drupal’s core is benefiting from it.
Drupal also offers a sweet module called Custom Breadcrumbs 2 that allows you to further customize your breadcrumbs, maximizing their relevancy and cleanliness.
Custom Breadcrumbs 2
This module “allows its administrators to set up parametrized breadcrumb trails for any node type.” For example, this blog post can have breadcrumbs set up as “Home > Blog > 2009 > December” for CCK-style node types.
New features have been added to the Custom Breadcrumbs 2 release that includes support for views, panels, taxonomy vocabularies and terms, paths, and a simple API. That way you can enable breadcrumbs for contributed modules on module pages and theme templates, increasing overall visibility. Custom Breadcrumbs 2 also allows admin to use php code snippets in forming breadcrumb titles and paths.
There is a beta version of Custom Breadcrumbs 2 now available for testing at http://drupal.org/project/custom_breadcrumbs. All versions support multiple languages. There will also be a full Drupal 7 release of Custom Breadcrumbs 2. If you haven’t already, download and configure it in with your Drupal-powered site. It is easy and helps maximize your online path in Google results.
We are curious to know what other people feel about Drupal’s breadcrumbs. Are you using breadcrumbs for your Drupal site? Let us know about your experience with Drupal’s core breadcrumbs feature, or the Custom Breadcrumbs module below in a comment. Have you not jumped on the breadcrumbs bandwagon? Let us know below if you aren’t sold on the idea, or just want to know a little bit more.
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Drupal is not common here in our country but I think it will be known soon.
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I usually use the primary
I usually use the primary links menu as the top level of my site, and end up hiding the default breadcrumbs and creating custom breadcrumbs in template.php.
It looks like Drupal is one
It looks like Drupal is one step ahead on this one, it's a great advantage at the moment and it will last until other web content management systems will adapt to Google's new feature. It doesn't surprise me now why Drupal so popular.
Drupal's default breadcrumbs
Drupal's default breadcrumbs rely on the navigation menu, and often produce strange heirarchies. I usually use the primary links menu as the top level of my site, and end up hiding the default breadcrumbs and creating custom breadcrumbs in template.php
The Custom Breadcrumbs module sounds like a much better alternative to hacking together my own breadcrumbs function. Thanks for the reccomendation!