Breadcrumbs according to session

Hi,

If you do not select a breadcrumb parent page a php session variable will be used to determine which page could be a parent page. The results may vary depending on which page the website visitor views first. If you want a constant breadcrumb (which does not use sessions to “guess” the right parent page based on previously visited pages) you need to select the breadcrumb parent manually.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

The easiest solution (and also the most flexible one) would be to use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-field-bulk-editor/ to set the breadcrumb parent page for your portfolio entries.

Install and activate the plugin, then go to the wordpress admin panel > Portfolio Items > “Bulk Edit Fields”. If you want to select the same parent page for all portfolio items select all items from the list, otherwise select them by category or tag, etc.

Then scroll down to the “Set Custom Field Values For Checked Portfolio Items” section and enter into the “Custom Field Name:” option field on the left side the value “breadcrumb_parent” (without the quotes). Then add the page id of your breadcrumb parent page into the “Value” field on the right side (screenshot: blob:https://imgur.com/c8eab0e8-b438-4811-8bd9-5bf41703592d ). If you don’t know the id of the page this article: https://www.ostraining.com/blog/wordpress/how-to-find-the-page-id-in-wordpress/ will show you how to get it.

At least hit the blue “Save custom fields” button and you’re done. If you want to set different parent pages for different portfolio categories you need to repeat this procedure for each parent page, just select a different category, add the “breadcrumb_parent” value to the left field and insert a different page id on the right side, etc.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

Please create me an admin account and I’ll look into it.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

No because portfolio entries are like posts and do not support “parent pages”. You can only assign categories and tags to them. The breadcrumb parent page option is a theme feature and not a standard wordpress feature which is supported by the bulk edit panel.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

Yes, tbh I don’t know why it’s not working for you. It seems to be a plugin issue because it should not duplicate the field but overwrite the content.

In this case I’d recommend to set it manually or to use the code I posted here: https://kriesi.at/support/topic/breadcrumbs-according-to-session/#post-1014871

Another solution (if you don’t want to set the breadcrumb page for each post manually) would be to use a plugin like: https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-duplicator/ to duplicate the portfolio items. Then you just need to set up one item, click the “Duplicate post” button and it will copy the post content, including all custom fields (also the breadcrumb parent field) to a new entry. You then just need to alter the headline, images and content and you don’t need to care about the other option fields.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

You could add this function to the child theme functions.php:

function avia_delete_all_breadcrumb_parent()
{
	$args = array('posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_status' => 'any',  'post_type' => array('portfolio')); 
	$articles= get_posts( $args );

	foreach($articles as $article)
	{
		delete_post_meta($article->ID, 'breadcrumb_parent');
	}
}
add_action('init','avia_delete_all_breadcrumb_parent');

to delete all post meta fields with the value breadcrumb_parent. Then reload your website and remove the function. Afterwards you can either try to use the plugin to set the post meta values again or you can use this code:

function avia_add_all_breadcrumb_parent()
{
	$args = array('posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_status' => 'any',  'post_type' => array('portfolio')); 
	$articles= get_posts( $args );

	foreach($articles as $article)
	{
		update_post_meta($article->ID, 'breadcrumb_parent', 1980);
	}
}
add_action('init','avia_add_all_breadcrumb_parent');

to bulk update the breadcrumb page for all portfolio items. You just need to replace 1980 with your parent page id and reload the website. Afterwards I’d recommend to remove the function because of performance reasons (unnecessary code).

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

You need to add it when the post type is registered (see https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type – “supports” parameter). If you want to add custom fields support to portfolio items you can add this code to your child theme functions.php:

add_filter('avf_portfolio_cpt_args', 'avf_portfolio_cpt_args_mod');
function avf_portfolio_cpt_args_mod($args) {
	$args['supports'][] = 'custom-fields';
	return $args;
}

Best regards,
Peter