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:
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Hansel (7.x)
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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.
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Node Breadcrumb (7.x)
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Allows you to create rules which indicate menu location of nodes (and the breadcrumb), either with the admin UI, or with PHP code.
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Taxonomy Breadcrumb (7.x, 8.x)
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Automatically add term links (taxonomy/term/tid) to breadcrumb of nodes
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Custom Breadcrumbs (7.x, 8.x, 9.x)
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Customization only for entire content types, manual enter of breadcrumb links
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Menu Breadcrumb (7.x, 8.x, 9.x)
- Use your site's menu(s) to generate breadcrumbs.
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Menu Trails (not maintained)
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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.
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Crumbs (7.x)
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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.
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Menu position (7.x, 8.x)
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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.
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Breadcrumbs by path (7.x)
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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
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Easy Breadcrumb (7.x, 8.x)
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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
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Path Breadcrumbs (7.x)
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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
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Crumbdown
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Adds dropdown submenus to some breadcrumb items. Depends on Crumbs. Currently not actively developed. D6 only.
Check the comparison tables below (moved, so sidebar doesn't clobber).
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Comparison table for Drupal 7.x and above.
Feature | Custom Breadcrumbs | Menu Breadcrumb | Path Breadcrumbs | Popup | Clickpath | Hansel | Crumbs | Breadcrumb | Menu position | |
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Drupal-related | ||||||||||
Drupal 8.x | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Planned | ||
Drupal 7.x | ||||||||||
Drupal 6.x | - | "unstable" | ||||||||
Drupal 5.x | - | |||||||||
Usage | >49k | >40k | >13k | >7k | <300 | >1k | >15k | <600 | >23k | |
*Last update |
September 9, |
October 8, 2013 |
June 24, 2014 |
July 6, 2014 | April 4, 2010 | October 30, 2014 | October 2, 2014 |
February 24, 2011 | February 22, 2012 |
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Documentation / README | Readme | FAQ, Video |
Page | Doc | ||||||
Demo / screenshot | - | settings screen | Video, screenshots |
- | - | screenshots | - | screenshot | ||
Functionality | ||||||||||
API, Hooks, classes available | API, CTools Plugins |
Yes | Plugins | |||||||
User defined rules | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||||
Admin UI | ||||||||||
Token support | ||||||||||
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 | Page Manager friendly UI. Ctools based. Cacheable. | |
See: #481564 |
Makes you breadcrumbs and menus consistent. Due to the usage of the menu system it’s less flexible than other modules. |
*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 | |
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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.
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.
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
Path breadcrumb
Path breadcrumb is more useful to customize breadcrumb. It's a powerful module which I used in many Drupal projects. There is a blog post for Persians to learn more.
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Drupalika | دروپال فارسی
2 tables
Probably we need to convert this big table into two. First one with the one which supports 7.x (8), the other one with no support for 7.x (6)Did it.
I think that Path breadcrumb
I think that Path breadcrumb is better than customize breadcrumb.
Updated dates and installs
I updated the dates on the modules based on the last release, except for "Breadcrumb". The 2003 date was way off so I took the date of the last commit.
I took the current number of "Reported installs".