Improved WordPress Breadcrumbs

I love how open source works. I released an early version of my breadcrumbs plugin, and I got some great feedback from all of you here on the blog and in the blogosphere!

For instance, Damon Gudaitis of Life With Beer asked if I could build in support for category parents. I didn't think about that since I don't nest categories on this blog, but it's actually a must have I think. So I built it in.

Then I came across this post on Hack WordPress, which urged theme designers to include the breadcrumbs in to their themes. Now I'm good friends with the very good premium theme designers at Woothemes, and they'd probably love to include it, but they'd either have to pay me, or I'd have to release the plugin under another license, so they can easily ship it. So, this new version is released under a BSD license instead of a GPL one.

Another issue for theme designers was that though you could include the breadcrumb conditionally, doing this:

<?php if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) {
	yoast_breadcrumb();
} ?>

You'd still have to put something around it like <p id="breadcrumbs"> breadcrumb </p>, so you cannot add the code and leave it up to the user to activate the plugin or not. So I've modified it, and you can now do this:

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

That way, you can easily include it in your themes, and leave it up to the user to enable the plugin or not. I've updated the documentation on the plugin page to reflect that.

So, if you're using it, download the latest version and upgrade: Yoast WordPress Breadcrumbs!