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Breadcrumbs in Movable Type

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5 May 2004

P. Obels asked

How do you get the links on top of your site in movabletype which point out where you are?

like:

Home » Our Thinking » Measure Twice » Archive » Tools and Utilities

Since he’s not the first person who’s asked, and I’m getting tired of re-writing the answer, I’m blogging it so I can simply point people here.

The short answer is: manually.

Each MT template has the breadcrumbs manually defined. The only variable part of the breadcrumb is (in most templates) the last item in the list. So my archive template that creates both category and monthly archives has this in it:

<p class="breadcrumb"><a href="/">Home</a> » <a href="/thinking/">Our Thinking</a> » <a href="/blog/">Measure Twice</a> » <a href="/blog/archives/">Archive</a> » <MTArchiveTitle></p>

And the individual archive template contains

<p class="breadcrumb"><a href="/">Home</a> » <a href="/thinking/">Our Thinking</a> » <a href="/blog/">Measure Twice</a> » <MTEntryTitle></p>

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