Best breadcrumbs plugins for WordPress
The most popular breadcrumbs plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Breadcrumb NavXT leads with 800K+ active installs, ahead of Flexy Breadcrumb (10K+) and Breadcrumb (10K+). All 60 plugins tagged “breadcrumbs” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 breadcrumbs plugins
- 1.Breadcrumb NavXT
The most installed breadcrumbs plugin, with 800K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 132 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Flexy Breadcrumb10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 20 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 3.
Breadcrumb10K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 34 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
Breadcrumb Trail10K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 30 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 5.
Breadcrumbs Divi Module10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 14 reviews, updated 4 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 6.
Breadcrumbs for WooCommerce6K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 13 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 7.Catch Breadcrumb
2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 8.RDFa Breadcrumb
600+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 7 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 9.
Menu Breadcrumb300+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 10.
WPSSO Schema Breadcrumbs Markup300+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 19 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
All 60 plugins tagged “breadcrumbs”
Breadcrumb NavXT
Down in the last 7 days:1#81by John Havlik2 months ago
Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor's path to their current location.
- Installs
- 800K+
- Rating
- 4.6(132)
- Downloads
- 2.9K/day

Flexy Breadcrumb
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,430by PressTigers4 days ago
Flexy Breadcrumb is a lightweight, responsive, and SEO-optimized breadcrumb plugin that makes navigating page hierarchies effortless.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(20)
- Downloads
- 150/day

Breadcrumb
Down in the last 7 days:3#1,699by PickPlugins10 months ago
Super light weight & easy breadcrumb navigation for wordpress site.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(34)
- Downloads
- 70/day

Breadcrumb Trail
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,745by Justin Tadlock9 years ago
A powerful script for adding breadcrumbs to your site that supports Schema.org HTML5-valid microdata.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(30)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Breadcrumbs Divi Module
Down in the last 7 days:3#1,754by learnhowwp4 months ago
A simple lightweight plugin that adds a breadcrumbs module in the Divi theme.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(14)
- Downloads
- 48/day

Breadcrumbs for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:1#2,890by Anthony Hortin5 months ago
A simple plugin to style the WooCommerce Breadcrumbs or disable them altogether
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Catch Breadcrumb
Down in the last 7 days:3#4,817by Catch Themes5 months ago
Catch Breadcrumb lets you display Breadcrumb Navigation anywhere on your website elegantly.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 22/day
RDFa Breadcrumb
Down in the last 7 days:45#8,432by Nitin Yawalkar10 years ago
An easy template tag for showing a breadcrumb menu on your site and on google search results with built in RDFa Markup.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.1(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Menu Breadcrumb
Up in the last 7 days:77#10,272by Jon Christopher10 months ago
Generate a breadcrumb trail from a WordPress Menu
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

WPSSO Schema Breadcrumbs Markup
Down in the last 7 days:140#10,509by JS Morisset11 days ago
Schema BreadcrumbList markup in JSON-LD format for Google Rich Results.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.9(19)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Genesis Simple Breadcrumbs
Down in the last 7 days:157#10,762by Nick the Geek15 years ago
Genesis Menu options with custom menu, categories, pages, and primary/secondary nav extras.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Instant Breadcrumbs
Down in the last 7 days:1#11,041by loseyourmarbles12 years ago
Instant Breadcrumbs adds a breadcrumb trail to your WordPress blog's primary navigation menu. No theme editing required!
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day

X3P0
Up in the last 7 days:37#12,089by Justin Tadlock8 months ago
Add breadcrumb navigation to any site. Works with block and classic themes. Auto-detects site structure and custom post types. Improves SEO.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Breadcrumb NavXT Multidimension Extensions
Down in the last 7 days:37#12,180by John Havlik1 year ago
Automates the generation of multidimensional list breadcrumb trails with Breadcrumb NavXT.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 10/day
Smart Breadcrumbs for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:35#12,809by Themepoints9 months ago
A powerful and customizable breadcrumb widget for Elementor. Enhance navigation and SEO with clean, structured breadcrumbs.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

WPshore Breadcrumbs
Down in the last 7 days:47#12,861by nablasol1 year ago
An easy-to-use template tag for showing a breadcrumb menu on your site.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day

DP RDFa Breadcrumb Generator
Down in the last 7 days:99#14,372by mylo2h2s12 years ago
A RDFa breadcrumbs generator, specifically made for SEO purposes, that works in every scenario and displays the correct rich snippets in Google.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Breadcrumbs Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:5#15,006by Puvox Software18 days ago
[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] Show breadcrumbs for posts, pages and categories
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
BreadcrumbsPress
#17,432by Milan Petrovic16 days ago
Breadcrumbs based navigation, fully responsive and customizable, supporting post types, all types of archives, 404 pages, search results, and more.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
SEO Schema
Up in the last 7 days:149#17,868by eGrove Systems1 year ago
A WordPress plugin to add structured data for Organization Schema and Breadcrumb Schema using JSON-LD.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Add a Yoast Breadcrumb
Up in the last 7 days:116#19,031by Allon Sacks10 years ago
Add/prepend a breacrumb to the current page for Yoast SEO breadcrumbs
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ostheimer SEO
Down in the last 7 days:573#19,712by Andreas Ostheimer5 days ago
Lightweight technical SEO: titles, descriptions, schema, sitemaps, social previews and Yoast import. No account or cloud dependency.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day
Carbon Breadcrumbs
Down in the last 7 days:157#20,316by Marin Atanasov10 years ago
A basic WordPress plugin for breadcrumbs with advanced capabilities for extending.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Theme Blvd Post-to-Page Link
Down in the last 7 days:114#20,326by Jason12 years ago
Link a post to a page to effect its breadcrumb trail when using a Theme Blvd theme.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Breadcrux
Up in the last 7 days:369#22,151by Muhammad Awais4 months ago
A lightweight, SEO-friendly breadcrumb trail for posts, pages, and custom post types. Works with Elementor and the block editor.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Breadcrumbs
Down in the last 7 days:5#23,557by Menkii14 years ago
Outputting breadcrumbs when using the function wp_breadcrumbs()
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Edit My Breadcrumb
Up in the last 7 days:140#26,614by AdkVolks12 years ago
Edit My Breadcrumb is a plugin for WordPress that allows for breadcrumbs to be added to your page.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Breadcrumbs
#27,033by slikNET9 years ago
Breadcrumbs plugin.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Der Donat Easy SEO
Up in the last 7 days:338#30,121by martindonat1 month ago
Simple SEO plugin for WordPress: SEO titles, meta descriptions, Open Graph previews, noindex, canonical URLs, XML sitemap and breadcrumbs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
KUMITATE Site Tools
Up in the last 7 days:353#30,651by MOTOKI1 month ago
Optional blocks and site tools for block themes. Turn each feature on or off; saved content stays as core blocks.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fix Forum Breadcrumbs
Up in the last 7 days:3,755#34,584by Fidgety Lizard5 months ago
Removes duplicate root breadcrumb in bbPress forum breadcrumbs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Trailblaze
Up in the last 7 days:7,329#35,025by Erik Ford10 years ago
Add breadcrumb navigation to your posts, pages and custom post types with a template tag.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Elementor Breadcrumbs
Up in the last 7 days:33,368#38,063by heavymask2 months ago
Build polished, accessible Elementor breadcrumbs with custom trails, smart WordPress context, schema markup, and sitewide styling.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Last Seen Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:7,110#38,937by curlybracket11 years ago
Show title and links to the last 5 posts a user has consulted.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simply SEO
#41,390by jordymeo1019 months ago
A lightweight SEO plugin with just the essentials: meta tags, schema markup, breadcrumbs, and redirects.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SlkZ Breadcrumbs
Up in the last 7 days:2,971#45,063by SolykZ12 years ago
Adds a breadcrumb trail to your WordPress installation to allow your users to keep track of their location within your pages structure.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Group Forum Crumbs
#45,566by Ruuttu13 years ago
Breadcrumbs for BuddyPress group forums.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Breadcrumb
#46,999by Sygnoos9 years ago
Breadcrumb Builder will allow you to add Breadcrumbs navigation section to your site and your visitors will know current path.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Breadcrumb Navigation for SEO with Microdata
Down in the last 7 days:1,027#47,677by tobias_.MerZ11 years ago
With this Plugin you can generate a breadcrumb navigation with Microdata format from schema.org. The breadcrumbs will be shown in Google snippets.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
History Tracker
Down in the last 7 days:11,936#47,851by ctltwp15 years ago
Tracks the history the users visit and displays it to them, like the browser history but only for your website
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Flexy SEO
Up in the last 7 days:6,778#54,743by sh1zen19 days ago
WordPress SEO plugin with meta tags, schema markup, XML sitemap, redirects, 404 monitor, SEO audit and breadcrumbs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sempai Custom Breadcrumbs
#55,134by Sempai2 years ago
A WordPress plugin that allows you to add custom breadcrumbs to your website with the ability to customize the styling.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Primary Cat
Down in the last 7 days:5,898#55,324by Web Guy5 months ago
Set a primary category for your posts... and then do stuff with it. [primary-cat]
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
azurecurve Breadcrumbs
Up in the last 7 days:14,838#56,247by azurecurve8 years ago
Allows breadcrumbs to be placed before and after the content on a page; the azc_b_getbreadcrumbs() function can be added to a theme template to positi …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

EGS Organization Schema & Breadcrumbs
#57,551by eGrove Systems2 months ago
Add configurable Organization JSON-LD and automatic or manual BreadcrumbList structured data with output controls and a schema preview.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Essential Theme Helpers
Up in the last 7 days:14,528#58,189by Devmont Digital1 month ago
A set of handy shortcodes and utilities to speed up WordPress theme development and enhance front-end capabilities.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Atela SEO
Up in the last 7 days:7,777#61,365by atelapl24 days ago
Professional SEO plugin with Elementor support, live previews, XML sitemaps, redirects, Schema.org, and automatic social media image letterboxing.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SEO Ready
Down in the last 7 days:5,070#62,129by Mahdi Yazdani5 months ago
Lightweight WordPress SEO plugin for meta titles, descriptions, schema, social sharing, breadcrumbs, and FAQ content.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Assist SEO
Up in the last 7 days:6,457#65,295by AssistPress1 month ago
Lightweight, no-nonsense SEO for WordPress: titles, meta descriptions, canonical URLs, robots directives, social cards and sitemap control.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Breadcrumbs Made Easy
Down in the last 7 days:13,207#65,996by ConicPlex2 months ago
Are you looking for a simple, ultra-lightweight, and super fast wordpress breadcrumbs plugin? "Breadcrumbs Made Easy" is created just for yo …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day