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Comparison of Breadcrumb Customizing modules

Last updated September 22, 2010. Created by joachim on July 28, 2009.
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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.
Crumbdown / crumbtweaks
Adds dropdown submenus to some breadcrumb items. Depends on Crumbs.






 

 

Comparison table of Breadcrumb Modules
Feature Custom Breadcrumbs Menu Breadcrumb Menu Trails Taxonomy Breadcrumb Node Hierarchy

Node breadcrumb

Popup

Clickpath

Hansel

TrailScout

Crumbs

Crumbdown

Breadcrumb 

 
Drupal-related
Drupal 8.x - - - - - - - - - - - - Planned  
Drupal 7.x    
Drupal 6.x    
Drupal 5.x    
Usage >13k >16k >9k >5k >2k >1k <1k <1k <100 <100 <100 <10    
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 August 30, 2010 July 18, 2010 October 11, 2003  
Documentation / README
Page

  Readme

  Page

  Page

    Desc

       
Demo / screenshot - settings screen screenshots

- - screenshots

- - screenshots

demo

- -    
Functionality
API, Hooks, classes available                 Yes   class-based      
User defined rules ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
 Admin UI                        
Token support   No     -    
                             
Additional database tables                            
Comments                      

It's a Crumbs extension!

- Depends on Crumbs

- Contains Crumbtweaks module

See: #481564  
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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.

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.

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