Comparison of Breadcrumb Customizing modules

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
Drupal-related
Drupal 8.x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Planned	-
Drupal 7.x
Drupal 6.x											"unstable"
Drupal 5.x
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
Functionality
API, Hooks, classes available									Yes		Plugins
User defined rules			?	?	?		?	?	?	?		?
Admin UI
Token support				No
Additional database tables
Breadcrumbs based on ...
Menu hierarchy	?		-	-	-	?	?	-	?	?		?	?
Taxonomy	?	-	-		?	?	?	-	?	?		?	?
Path alias	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?		?	?
Node reference / entity reference	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?		?	?
Organic groups	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?		?	?
Click history	?	?	?	?	?	?	?		?	?		?	?
Admin defined rules	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?		?		?
Code-defined rules	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?		?	?
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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