## Breadcrumbs

Product: Verba - Modern Blog & Magazine WordPress Theme
URL: https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/docs/verba/theme-settings/breadcrumbs
Updated: 2026-09-24
Summary: Turn the breadcrumb trail on or off site-wide, choose where it appears, set the home link and separator, and keep long titles from breaking the line.

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 [[Appearance > Customize > General > Breadcrumbs]].

## 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 [[Appearance > Customize > Pages]].
- Archives: the same switch on the **Page Header** tab of [[Appearance > Customize > Archive]].
- The posts page: the same switch on the **Page Header** tab of [[Appearance > Customize > Posts Page]].
- Single posts: **Show breadcrumbs** on the **Header** tab of [[Appearance > Customize > Single Post]].

## Style the trail

:::options

- **Show Home Link** (boolean, default: on): Starts the trail with a link to the front page.

- **Home Link Style** (default: icon): An icon, a word, or both.

- **Home Link Text** (default: Home): The word used when the style includes text.

- **Show "Back" button** (boolean, default: on): Adds a back button before the trail.

- **Separator** (default: chevron): A chevron, slash, dot, dash, an icon you pick, or your own text.

- **Limit by** (default: characters): Whether the maximum below counts characters or words.

- **Maximum per item** (default: 40): 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.

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](https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/docs/verba/theme-settings/to-optimization).

<details><summary>I turned on Show Breadcrumbs for archives and still see nothing</summary>

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

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<details><summary>The trail shows on desktop but not on my phone</summary>

**Show on phones** is off. Turn it on at [[Appearance > Customize > General > Breadcrumbs]].

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