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title: "How to Add Breadcrumbs to Elementor Category Page?"
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# How to Add Breadcrumbs to Elementor Category Page?

## 

- Integrates Breadcrumbs Bar widget from The Plus Addons for Elementor to enhance navigation on category pages.
- Utilizes Nexter Builder or Elementor Pro to create a category archive template for displaying breadcrumbs.
- Requires installation and activation of The Plus Addons for Elementor to access the Breadcrumbs Bar widget features.

A category archive is often where a visitor lands from search, so it needs a clear way back to the rest of the site.

The **Breadcrumbs Bar** widget from The Plus Addons for Elementor adds a trail to category pages that reflects how your categories are nested.

*To check the complete feature overview documentation of The Plus Addons for Elementor Breadcrumbs Bar widget, [click here](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/breadcrumbs-bar-widget-settings-overview/).*

***Requirement - This widget is a part of The Plus Addons for Elementor, make sure it's installed & activated to enjoy all its powers.***

[LIVE WIDGET LINK](https://theplusaddons.com/elementor-widget/breadcrumbs-bar/?utm_source=tpae&utm_medium=docs&utm_campaign=text)

## Before You Start

- **Edition:** **Free** — the Breadcrumbs Bar widget is in the free plugin as well as Pro, and the trail it builds is the same in both.- **Widget to enable:** Breadcrumbs Bar, switched on under **The Plus Addons > Widgets**.- **Where to add it:** the template for the pages you want it on — a header template shows it site-wide, a single or archive template shows it on those pages only.

## How to Add Breadcrumbs to a Category Page

- Open the category archive template, or your header template if you want the breadcrumb on every page.- Add the **Breadcrumbs Bar** widget where the trail should appear.- Set the **Separator Icon** and **Extra Option** settings as you like.- Publish, then open a category archive.

The trail appears above the list of posts in that category:

![Breadcrumb on a category archive page above the grid of posts in that category](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/category-archive-breadcrumb-demo.png)

## What the Trail Shows

| Category | Trail |
| -------- | ----- |
| A top-level category | Home, then *Archive by "Category name"* |
| A child category | Home, then the parent category by name, then the child category by name |
| Page 2 of an archive | The same trail, then *(Page 2)* |

The two are worded differently on purpose in the widget: a top-level category reads *Archive by "Name"*, while a nested one lists the plain category names.

## Hiding Parts of the Trail

The three switches in **Extra Option** control which parts appear.

![Extra Option section of the Breadcrumbs Bar widget with the Home, Parent and Current switches](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/breadcrumbs-extra-option.webp)

- **Home** set to Hide removes the home link, leaving just the category path.- **Current** set to Hide takes the current category out of view, leaving its parent.- **Parent** has no effect on category archives — see Limitations.

## How It Behaves

- The widget reads the category being viewed, so one widget covers every category archive.- Parent categories are links; the current category is plain text.- The wording of the top-level archive step is fixed in the widget. There is no setting for it.- Paged archives add *(Page 2)*, *(Page 3)* and so on to the end of the trail.- The trail is the same in the free plugin and in Pro.

## Limitations

- **Parent** set to Hide is ignored on category archives. The parent category is still shown. The switch does work on pages, posts and products.- A top-level category and a nested one are worded differently, which can look inconsistent across a site.- **Letter Limit** in **Special Option** does not shorten category names.- **Current** set to Hide hides the current category with CSS. The text is still in the page source.- The breadcrumb is plain navigation markup and adds no breadcrumb structured data for search engines.- The widget does not load Font Awesome, so the home and separator icons come out blank on an archive where nothing else loads it.

## Troubleshooting

### Nothing shows on the category page

The category archive uses its own template. Add the widget to that template, or to the header template.

### The parent category will not go away

**Parent** is ignored on category archives. There is no setting that removes it there.

### The trail says Archive by "..." on some categories only

That wording is used for top-level categories. Nested categories show the plain names instead.

## Related Docs

- [Breadcrumbs Bar widget settings overview](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/breadcrumbs-bar-widget-settings-overview/)- [Add breadcrumbs to a tag page](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/add-breadcrumbs-to-elementor-tag-page/)- [Add breadcrumbs on a blog post single page](https://theplusaddons.com/docs/add-breadcrumbs-on-blog-post-single-page/)