Breadcrumbs are the short trail above a title that shows where a page sits, like Home, then a category, then the post. Verba draws them in the free theme. The site-wide settings are at AppearanceCustomizeVerba ThemeGeneralBreadcrumbs.

A post page with the trail Home, Blog, Technology and the post title above the heading — A breadcrumb trail above a post title.

#Turn them on or off

Enable Breadcrumbs is the master switch, and it's on by default. Turn it off and the trail disappears from every template at once, whatever the other settings say.

Show on phones keeps the trail on narrow screens. Turn it off when the header area feels crowded on a phone; desktop keeps its trail.

#Choose where they appear

Each place with a title has its own switch, so you can keep the trail on archives and drop it on posts:

Pages: Show Breadcrumbs on the Page Header tab of AppearanceCustomizeVerba ThemePages.
Archives: the same switch on the Page Header tab of AppearanceCustomizeVerba ThemeArchive.
The posts page: the same switch on the Page Header tab of AppearanceCustomizeVerba ThemePosts Page.
Single posts: Show breadcrumbs on the Header tab of AppearanceCustomizeVerba ThemeSingle Post.

#Style the trail

The Breadcrumbs tab with the home link, home link style, back button, separator, Limit by and Maximum per item settings — The breadcrumb style settings.

Starts the trail with a link to the front page.

An icon, text, or icon and text.

The word used when the style includes text.

Adds a back button before the trail.

A chevron, slash, dot, dash, an icon you pick (Separator icon), or your own characters (Custom separator, default »).

Whether the maximum below counts characters or words.

How long one step can get before it's shortened. A post title of 90 characters is the usual reason a trail wraps onto two lines.

#Where the trail comes from

The free theme builds the trail itself, from the page's position in WordPress: its category, its parent page, or the archive it belongs to. It also emits the matching structured data, with no plugin needed.

With Pro, you can take the trail from an SEO plugin instead, so the page shows the same trail your SEO plugin builds. That choice is covered in General: optimization, and how it affects structured data in SEO, analytics and accessibility.

I turned on Show Breadcrumbs for archives and still see nothing

Check Enable Breadcrumbs first. With the master switch off, no per-page setting can bring the trail back.

The trail shows on desktop but not on my phone

Show on phones is off. Turn it on at AppearanceCustomizeVerba ThemeGeneralBreadcrumbs. With Pro, the Pro layouts follow their own Show on phones switch in Theme Options.

Last updated 1 Oct 2026

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