Hide 'Home' link only on a breadcrumb

look into the advanced_menu.module which allows you to extend the breadcrumbs to be this way Home > About Us

to remove home from the breadcrumb trail may take some theme override.

Hi there-

Though I can't help you get rid of home on all the pages, I can at least take it off the main page for you.

Go to your page.tpl.php file, and find the line:

<?php if ($breadcrumb): print $breadcrumb ?><?php endif; ?>

Edit this line to instead be:

<?php if ($breadcrumb && $title != "What you called your home page"): print $breadcrumb ?><?php endif; ?>

Hope that helps.

Edit: You can check out my article at: http://sensiblysecular.com/drupal/hiding_home_link_in_breadcrumb/

If your using PHPTemplate, here is some stuff you can try...

A crack at the breadcrumbs, in-template statement

Inside: page.tpl.php in your theme folder

Find (if exists):

 	if (isset($breadcrumb)) {
			// delete this whole if structure, including its inner statements.
		}	

or Find:
print $breadcrumb

Replace with:

 if ($breadcrumb && (strstr($breadcrumb," » ") || strstr($breadcrumb," » "))): 
	print $breadcrumb; endif; 

If $breadcrumb on a page returns one of these examples:

home

anything

The $breadcrumb will not print.

If $breadcrumb on a page returns one of these examples:

home »

home » hahaha

anything » moo

»

The $breadcrumb will show. The first and last are likely to occur with phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb) is overridden or a module interfering with breadcrumbs. Back in real life, drupal setup's often include many modules which may trigger this extraneous result. So we look for a fix.

A cooler way

Inside: template.php in your theme folder
I have made a function override for phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb). This override grants some flexibility, and best of all you can stick keep your old print $breadcrumb function call in page.tpl.php. Inside your theme's directory find template.php (if it isn't there, create it.) Paste this function in:

/*
	phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb) override
	File: template.php
	Use: Hide breadcrumb trails with only 1 crumb, regardless of crumb name ("home" is)
		a popular single-crumb that people like to have removed in some templates.
	Through: PHPTemplate function override
	Benefits: Does not involve extra code in separate view. 
*/
function phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb) {
	$home = variable_get('site_name', 'drupal');
	$sep = ' » ';
	// Check if breadcrumb has more than 1 element.
	// Options: Change to the number of elements/crumbs a breadcrumb needs to be visible.
	if (count($breadcrumb) > 1) {
		$breadcrumb[0] = l(t($home), '');
		/*
			Optional: Include page title in breadcrumb.
		
			drupal_get_title() !== ''
				Check if title blank, if that is the case, we cannot include trailing page name.
			strstr(end($breadcrumb),drupal_get_title()) == FALSE
				Some modules will make it so path or breadcrumb will involve duplication of 
				title and node name (such as in the Events module) to remove this, simply 
				take out  && strstr(end($breadcrumb),drupal_get_title()) == FALSE 
			
			Use: Simply uncomment the if structure below (3 lines).
			Special Use: If you wish to use this regardless of elements/crumbs in a breadcrumb
				simply cut/paste the statements inside the "if (count($breadcrumb) > 1)" outside
				of the structure, and delete the extranneous structure. 
	
			if ( (drupal_get_title() !== '') && (strstr(end($breadcrumb),drupal_get_title()) ) == FALSE) {
				$breadcrumb[] = t(drupal_get_title(), '');
			}
		*/	
		return implode($sep, $breadcrumb);
	} else {
		// Would only show a single element/crumb (or none), so return nothing.
		// You can remove this statement.
	}
}

Remember, this function override is not meant to be coupled with the first example in page.tpl.php
print $breadcrumb
to call your breadcrumbs.

function phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb) {
  if (!empty($breadcrumb) && count($breadcrumb)>1) {
    return '<div class="breadcrumb">'. implode(' &#187; ', $breadcrumb) .'</div>';
  }
}

I used this in the template.php file to remove whatever the "first" item in the breadcrumb is. Hope it helps

/**
 * Return a themed breadcrumb trail.
 *
 * @param $breadcrumb
 *   An array containing the breadcrumb links.
 * @return a string containing the breadcrumb output.
*/ 
function phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb) {
	unset($breadcrumb[0]);
	array_unshift($breadcrumb, array_shift($breadcrumb) );

	return '<div class="breadcrumb">'. implode(' &raquo; ', $breadcrumb) .'</div>';
}

For those finding this by searching, as I did - Note that http://drupal.org/project/menu_breadcrumb does this now with no (extra) code.

Hi jriddiough - your solution (removing only the "home" link in the breadcrumb) is just what I was looking for and works like a charm - thanks!

Hye jriddiough,

I'm newbie to the drupal and I have been playing with the drupal for few couple of week. Before that I worked with Zend-Framework,Oscommerce,Moodle-online course management system.

Today, I created some nodes of type 'page' to taste the drupal CMS and I found that when browser renders those page, it also presents the 'Home'-root of the drupal breadcrumb.And it looks awkward as it appears top of the each page.

So all of sudden, I deleted the $breadcrumb from the page.tpl.page but then I got a question what if some page needs to have breadcrumb.So this is not the good practice ever.

So finally, I reached here and grabbed this place and now everything goes well.

Thanks for leading to the end of the tunnel and to lighten the lamp to eliminate the darkness

I have tried everything i can find on these breadcrumbs.. nothing works to remove the single 'home' link. Is this some kind of bug that needs to be filed someplace? Maybe there is a way to tell custom breadcrumbs to NOT display by content type? I have tried the php visible false thing , and that don't work either... maybe we are just suppose to not use any breadcrumbs at all..........In fact, none of the php code in this tread seems to work either. I don't get it...drupal is suppose to be ahead of it's time, maybe the breadcrumbs are from the past...don't know

I have switched to the dev version of custom breadcrumbs and it's really great. All my issues with breadcrumbs seem to be solved now, life is good..

There is one more way of doing this. I suppose u want to hide the Home link from your web-page.
This can be done via CSS. where u can set the display property as None. (display:none).

This is Drupal 6, but similar issue. Views was insistently tacking on its own breadcrumb to my Custom Breadcrumbs trail (may be because CB is still dev version?), so I added this function to template.php to remove any specific string:

function phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb) {
  if (!empty($breadcrumb)) {
	  $badString = '<a href="/products/taxonomy/term/all">Our Products</a>'; // Delete the breadcrumb from Views 
	  $badKey = array_search($badString, $breadcrumb);
	  if ($badKey) { unset($breadcrumb[$badKey]); } 
		return '<div class="breadcrumb">'. implode(' › ', $breadcrumb) .'</div>';
  }
}

function phptemplate_breadcrumb($variables) {
  $breadcrumb = $variables['breadcrumb'];
  if (!empty($breadcrumb)) {
    array_shift($breadcrumb);
    return '<div class="breadcrumb">' . implode(' » ', $breadcrumb) . '</div>';
  }
}

Custom breadcrumbs 2.x is very powerful, a series ofsub-modules help to to custom any styles and also remove the 'Home' link.

Where do you put the code in D7?

I tried to put it in template.php but i get a syntax error. That's why I assume that I should put it somewhere else :)

/Anna

function blue_menu_breadcrumb_alter(&$active_trail, $item) {
	// If there are no more than 1 items displaying in the breadcrumb trail, hide breadcrumbs altogether.
	if (!isset($active_trail['2'])) {
		drupal_add_css('#breadcrumbs {display:none;}', $option['type'] = 'inline');
	}
}

See http://drupal.org/node/103174#comment-6260120