New 'Breadcrumb' plugin available.
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I’ve written an EE plugin that will let you show all ancestor categories of a given category. I call it the ‘Breadcrumb’ plugin. It’s attached to this post as ‘pi.breadcrumb.txt’. To use the attachment (save it into your plugin folder and) rename it to pi.breadcrumb.php.
Please try it out and give me your feedback about bugs etc. I plan to add the final version to the pMachines list of plugins for EE if you like. Thanks.
Note:
This plugin and the “Subcategories” Plugin are a pair.
The “breadcumb” Plugin will show the ancestor categories of a category and the “Subcategories” plugin will show the children categories of a category.
OK..
Now more importantly, how do you use the two together?
Do you have an example on your site using the plugin?
Well it’s rather easy. Both plugins use a current category, which can come from the url, or the “root_node” plugin parameter.
Assuming you have a category group with the following categories, and that your current category is 1.1.1:
1 –1.1 —-1.1.1 ——1.1.1.1 ——1.1.1.2 ——–1.1.1.2.1 ——–1.1.1.2.2 ——–1.1.1.2.3 ——1.1.1.3 —-1.1.2 —-1.1.3 etc.
a) The breadcrumb plugin will show you all ancestor categories of category 1.1.1. In this example:
1 1.1
b) The Subcategories plugin will show you all children categories of category 1.1.1. In this example:
1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 1.1.1.3
See attached illustration:
Oh, and I would like to mention that, to show the current category (from the url) itself, I use the {exp:weblog:category_heading /} tag. 😊
Can we see it in action somewhere? A site you built using these plugins?
The site I’m working on is not ready yet. But I will make an example template for the public soon.
Can I ask what exactly is not clear about how to use the plugins?
I have a new version with a fixed bug. It
Hello, please tell me how to install in EE latest version…
Download the plugin from the above post. copy it to your plugins folder in your ee system folder and then follow the instructions at the bottom of the plugin file for how to implement it.
I’m do it… I’m download, copy this plugin and paste code:
{exp:breadcrumb root_node="365" sort_direction="desc"} <li>{category_name}</li> {/exp:breadcrumb}
in index template, but don’t work.
Hi xmaker
Did you rename the file from: “pi.breadcrumb.txt” to “pi.breadcrumb.php”?
Yes, i’m rename this file, but don’t work.
And did you replace the root_node number (365) with the category ID from one of your category groups?
{exp:breadcrumb root_node="enter your category ID here" sort_direction="desc"}
Where i’m see my category ID?