The Question

Recently, a user asked why events were not showing up correctly in his breadcrumbs.

The Answer

Unless your breadcrumb code is checking for custom taxonomies, it’s not going to know what to do with events and venues. Most breadcrumb plugins use a mix of conditionals to determine what to show, and often custom taxonomies don’t make it into the mix. So, let’s fix that!

The Code

Here’s a code snippet you can drop in your functions.php file that uses the built-in conditionals to handle events and venues.

• You can use it verbatim just add tribe_breadcrumbs(); to your page template.
• Or if you use a theme framework, just add an action hook wherever you want the breadcrumbs to appear: add_action(‘hook_name’,'tribe_breadcrumbs’);

// Check if page is direct child
function is_child($page_id) {
    global $post;
    if( is_page() && ($post->post_parent != '') ) {
       return true;
    } else {
       return false;
    }
}

function tribe_breadcrumbs() {

	global $post;

	$seperator = " » ";
	echo '<a href="';
	echo get_option('home');
	echo '">';
	bloginfo('name');
	echo "</a>";

    if( tribe_is_month() && !is_tax() ) { // The Main Calendar Page

    	echo $seperator;
    	echo 'The Events Calendar';

    } elseif( tribe_is_month() && is_tax() ) { // Calendar Category Pages

			global $wp_query;
			$term_slug = $wp_query->query_vars['tribe_events_cat'];
			$term = get_term_by('slug', $term_slug, 'tribe_events_cat');
			get_term( $term_id, 'tribe_events_cat' );
			$name = $term->name;
			echo $seperator;
      echo '<a href="'.tribe_get_events_link().'">Events</a>';
      echo $seperator;
      echo $name;

		} elseif( tribe_is_event() && !tribe_is_day() && !is_single() ) { // The Main Events List

			echo $seperator;
      echo 'Events List';

		} elseif( tribe_is_event() && is_single() ) { // Single Events

			echo $seperator;
			echo '<a href="'.tribe_get_events_link().'">Events</a>';
			echo $seperator;
      the_title();

		} elseif( tribe_is_day() ) { // Single Event Days

			global $wp_query;
			echo $seperator;
			echo '<a href="'.tribe_get_events_link().'">Events</a>';
			echo $seperator;
			echo 'Events on: ' . date('F j, Y', strtotime($wp_query->query_vars['eventDate']));

		} elseif( tribe_is_venue() ) { // Single Venues

			echo $seperator;
      echo '<a href="'.tribe_get_events_link().'">Events</a>';
      echo $seperator;
      the_title();

		} elseif (is_category() || is_single()) {

			echo $seperator;
			the_category(' &bull; ');
			if (is_single()) {
				echo ' '.$seperator.' ';
				the_title();
			}

    } elseif (is_page()) {

    	if(is_child(get_the_ID())) {
    		echo $seperator;
    		echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($post->post_parent) . '">' . get_the_title($post->post_parent) . '</a>';
    		echo $seperator;
      	echo the_title();
    	} else {
    		echo $seperator;
      	echo the_title();
    	}

		} elseif (is_search()) {

      echo $seperator.'Search Results for... ';
			echo '"<em>';
			echo the_search_query();
			echo '</em>"';

    }

}

This code is based on the Thesis Breadcrumbs Without Plugins code.