Zinn® SEO how-to: Change the breadcrumb trail's wording
Step by step in Zinn® SEO: Name the home page, choose the separator and word each kind of page in the breadcrumb trail visitors see and search engines read.
Change the breadcrumb trail's wording
Name the home page, choose the separator and word each kind of page in the breadcrumb trail visitors see and search engines read.
Open the Breadcrumbs tab — Go to SEO, Links, Breadcrumbs. The top of the tab shows how to add the trail to your theme: the Breadcrumbs block, a template function or a shortcode.
Word the trail — Under Trail wording, set the name of the home page, the separator and words before the trail, such as "You are here:". %s in a box stands for the name, the search words or the page number. Leave a box empty for the plain wording.
Choose how lists and dates appear — Choose whether a date archive shows its title or year › month › day, whether an item's trail shows its content type's archive (Home › Books › The River Book), and which taxonomies run through their content type's archive.
Keep your theme's old breadcrumb call working — With Zinn® SEO Pro, tick the SEO plugin your theme used under "Answer the breadcrumb functions of". Its breadcrumb function, shortcode and block then show Zinn® SEO's trail once that plugin is switched off. A move from another plugin ticks this for you.
Save — Press Save changes. The trail visitors see and the BreadcrumbList that search engines read change together.
With a screenshot of every step: https://zinnseo.com/kb/change-the-breadcrumb-trail-wording
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