Tag archives collect posts from all over a site, so a visitor who lands on one needs an obvious route back to the home page.
The Breadcrumbs Bar widget from The Plus Addons for Elementor adds that trail to tag pages automatically.
To check the complete feature overview documentation of The Plus Addons for Elementor Breadcrumbs Bar widget, click here.
Requirement – This widget is a part of The Plus Addons for Elementor, make sure it’s installed & activated to enjoy all its powers.
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 Tag Page
- Open the tag archive template, or your header template if you want the breadcrumb on every page.
- Add the Breadcrumbs Bar widget where the trail should appear.
- Adjust Separator Icon and Extra Option as you like.
- Publish, then open a tag archive.
The trail shows the home link and the tag being viewed:
What the Trail Shows
| Part | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Home | The Home Title setting, linked to your home page |
| Tag step | The tag name, shown as Posts Tagged “Tag name” |
| Page 2 and later | (Page 2) added to the end of the trail |
Renaming the Home Step
Open Content and type your own text in Home Title. Select Icon in the same section switches the home icon on or off.
The first step then uses your wording:
How It Behaves
- Tags are not hierarchical, so the trail is always the home step and the tag, with no parent steps.
- The wording Posts Tagged “…” is fixed in the widget. There is no setting for it.
- Home set to Hide in Extra Option leaves only the tag step.
- Current set to Hide takes the tag step out of view.
- The trail is the same in the free plugin and in Pro.
Limitations
- You cannot change the Posts Tagged wording from the widget.
- Letter Limit in Special Option does not shorten the tag step.
- Current set to Hide hides the tag step 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 tag page
Tag archives use their own template. Add the widget to that template, or to the header template so it covers every page.
The home step shows the wrong text
Change Home Title in the Content section.
There is no separator between the two steps
Set Select Icon in Separator Icon to Icon. It is None to begin with.
