Last updated April 2, 2013. Created by joachim on July 28, 2009.
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Modules that influence the generation of a breadcrumb trail
Comparison of modules that customize the breadcrumb and make nodes and other content appear to be under a chosen menu item:
- Hansel
- Hansel provides custom breadcrumbs which are build by user defined rules. These rules are independent from the menu system. Rules can have logic switches and can add links to the breadcrumbs.
- Node Breadcrumb
- Allows you to create rules which indicate menu location of nodes (and the breadcrumb), either with the admin UI, or with PHP code.
- Taxonomy Breadcrumb
- Automatically add term links (taxonomy/term/tid) to breadcrumb of nodes
- Custom Breadcrumbs
- Customization only for entire content types, manual enter of breadcrumb links
- Menu Breadcrumb
- fix for Drupal 6: add breadcrumb for all menu items from all menus
- Menu Trails
- Customization by content types and taxonomy terms. This module's main function is to implement primary/secondary links which keep the current menu trail "active" or highlighted.
- Crumbs
- Automatic breadcrumbs based on menu hierarchy, taxonomy, system path, alias, pathauto rules, nodereference fields, and additional rules that can be defined in custom modules. Rules can be moved up and down to set priorities.
- Menu position
- Allows for the creation of rules that will dynamically add the current page into the menu system (and thus breadcrumbs) at the requested spots. Currently, the Menu position module provides "content type", "pages", "taxonomy", "vocabulary" and "language" plug-ins that allows conditions to be added to rules.
- Easy Breadcrumb
- Easy Breadcrumb uses the current URL (path alias) and the current page's title to automatically extract the breadcrumb's segments and its respective links
- Path breadcrumbs
- Path breadcrumbs module helps you to create breadcrumbs for any page with any selection rules and load any entity from the URL.
Modules that add functionality to an existing breadcrumb
- Crumbdown
- Adds dropdown submenus to some breadcrumb items. Depends on Crumbs. Currently not actively developed. D6 only.
| Feature | Custom Breadcrumbs | Menu Breadcrumb | Menu Trails | Taxonomy Breadcrumb | Node Hierarchy | Node breadcrumb | Popup | Clickpath | Hansel | TrailScout | Crumbs | Breadcrumb | Menu position | |
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| Usage | >13k | >16k | >9k | >5k | >2k | >1k | <1k | <1k | <100 | <100 | > 5k | >4k | ||
| Last update | August 23, 2010 | March 11, 2010 | March 16, 2010 | April 16, 2010 | August 27, 2010 | October 22, 2009 | June 30, 2010 | April 4, 2010 | August 24, 2010 | January 7, 2009 | March 2013 | October 11, 2003 | February 22, 2012 | |
| Documentation / README | Readme | Readme | Page | Page | Desc | Doc | ||||||||
| Demo / screenshot | - | settings screen | screenshots | - | - | screenshots | - | - | screenshots | demo | - | screenshot | ||
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| API, Hooks, classes available | Yes | Plugins |
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| Taxonomy | ? | - | - |
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| Path alias | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
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| Node reference / entity reference | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
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| Click history | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
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| Prioritization of rules | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | fine-grained hierarchical prioritization with wildcards via admin weights UI | ? | ? | |
| Notes | See: #481564 | Makes you breadcrumbs and menus consistent. Due to the usage of the menu system it’s less flexible than other modules. | ||||||||||||
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Comments
Alternative Breadcrumb solution
An alternative solution is the Taxonomy Module. This module creates a menu item for each taxonomy term in the system. This automatically gives you both downward navigation through menu items and upward navigation through breadcrumbs.
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maybe some of the modules
maybe some of the modules should join or the developers should cooperate - for beginners it's confusing ...
Breadcrumb modules
See: http://groups.drupal.org/node/79839 (13 modules)
This list should be updated.
Probably converted to some table with functionality comparison.
I can't edit this page
Sorry, but I can't edit this page anymore.
Because of images, which are not allowed to edit.
See: #916818: Re-enable the images on http://drupal.org/node/533448
If somebody interested with recent version of this table, send me an e-mail.
yeah, this is unfortunate..
yeah, this is unfortunate..
OK
Ok, now is fine. I can edit. Thanks.
The table overlaps with the
The table overlaps with the right sidebar.
Would it make sense to split the table? If you put Module names on the left, and categories on top, then you could easily break it up.
EDIT:
Of course it would be psychologically wrong to have one module on top of the others.
A bunch of new table rows
I added a bunch of new table rows, which all happen to make my own module (Crumbs) look good. Still it does make sense to have these, I believe.
I put a lot of question marks for the other modules, because honestly I have no idea. Feel free to replace these with something meaningful.
Missing Panels Breadcrumbs in this Comparison
This seems to be a useful breadcrumps module that should be added
http://drupal.org/project/panels_breadcrumbs