WordPress is one of the most popular blog software packages in use today yet despite all the work that has gone into writing the software, there are still some basic flaws in the package.
One of those flaws is the lack navigation breadcrumbs. These breadcrumbs have several benefits to your blog including user navigation, search engine navigation (which helps your SEO) and a general professional look.
Breadcrumbs are the navigation text you often see on some blogs. A good breadcrumb addition will show a complete navigation structure from your categories. For example, the top of the post could show Home > SEO > WordPress SEO indicating the post is in the category for SEO and subcategory WordPress SEO.
If the breadcrumb utility is well written, each component will be ‘clickable’, in other words, a link through to the previous section. There are several plugins available that place breadcrumbs on your single pages (don’t use them on your front page). One plugin that works quite well comes from Yoast and is well worth checking out. A search of WordPress’s plugins will uncover more.
A breadcrumb plugin makes life a little easier on your visitors and may even help keep your visitor a little longer as they click on category link to check other posts. This is one plugin which will not hurt your blog at all, it may actually help.
