Comparison of Breadcrumb customizing modules

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 (7.x)

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 (7.x)

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 (7.x, 8.x)

Automatically add term links (taxonomy/term/tid) to breadcrumb of nodes

Custom Breadcrumbs (7.x, 8.x, 9.x)

Customization only for entire content types, manual enter of breadcrumb links

Menu Breadcrumb (7.x, 8.x, 9.x)

Use your site's menu(s) to generate breadcrumbs.

Menu Trails (not maintained)

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 (7.x)

Builds a breadcrumb trail by finding the parent of the current page, then the parent of the parent, etc, until it arrives at the home page. Each step is based on a series of user-prioritized plugins representing menu hierarchy, taxonomy, system path, alias, pathauto rules, nodereference fields, custom token paths per entity bundle, and additional rules that can be defined in custom modules.

Menu position (7.x, 8.x)

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.

Breadcrumbs by path (7.x)

Breadcrumbs by path uses the current URL (path alias) and the current page's title to automatically extract the breadcrumb's segments and its respective links

Easy Breadcrumb (7.x, 8.x)

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 (7.x)

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.

 

 

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Comparison table for Drupal 7.x and above.

 

*Note: The most recent update to any of these modules' "Last update" dates was December 16, 2014.

 

Comparison table for Drupal 6.x and below.

Feature	Menu Trails	Taxonomy Breadcrumb	Node Hierarchy	Node breadcrumb	TrailScout
Drupal-related
Drupal 8.x	-		-	-	-
Drupal 7.x
Drupal 6.x
Drupal 5.x
Usage	>8k	>7k	>4k	<1k	<100
*Last update	March 16, 2010	April 16, 2010	June 13, 2013	December 10, 2014	September 26, 2014
Documentation / README	Readme		Page		Desc
Demo / screenshot	screenshots	-	-	screenshots	demo
Functionality
API, Hooks, classes available
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	?	?	?	?	?
Notes

*Note: The most recent update to any of these modules' "Last update" dates was December 16, 2014.

Suggested web-browser add-ons to easier edit above tables: Xinha, Write Area.

See also: Comparison of Breadcrumb Modules in the Similar Module Review Drupal group.