The Breadcrumb is a really great feature for helping to indicate where you are
in the navigation on various parts of a particularly a large Web site.
The Breadcrumb is located right here on the home page and you can see it
just says Home here for the moment.
If I go further into the site let's say I go to the About>Company Structure page,
that breadcrumb is now down here at the bottom and it indicates that
I am from the home page,
I went to the About page and into the Company Structure page.
And it allows me to go jump up a level.
I can click on the words About and that will send me back to the top level
About page where I can then navigate to another page on the Web site.
However, I think this breadcrumb is placed relatively badly, all the way
down here at the bottom of the page.
I would much rather see this breadcrumb up at the top of the page.
Maybe just above where the article is starting.
The other thing I'd like to do is, I really don't want this breadcrumb showing on the home page.
It's kind of a waste here. I know I'm on the home page.
The breadcrumb doesn't do anything for me. It just says Home.
There's nothing here I can click. There's nothing here I can do.
So what I would like to do is move this up to a module position that's
a little bit further up on the page and I'd like to remove the breadcrumb
from the homepage entirely. This module already exists.
So we will edit the existing module. So if I hop into the back end of Joomla!
and I go to Extensions>Module Manager and I go to my Breadcrumbs.
Right now my Breadcrumbs are in position 2 which is called the Breadcrumb position,
but as you saw it was down at the bottom of the page.
I would really like to go someplace else and Top center is at the top
of the content area of the Web page.
I think the breadcrumb will be better placed there.
So I'm going to choose Top center for the breadcrumb instead.
I'd really like this breadcrumb not to show on the home page.
So under Menu Assignment I'm going to choose on all pages except those selected,
select none of these, and then select just the home page.
So I will put the breadcrumb on every page of the Web site, but don't show it on the home page.
Now I am going to Save & Close and when I refresh the homepage of the Web site,
I don't see the breadcrumb anywhere now, which is great.
That's exactly what I wanted.
Now when I go to the About page the breadcrumb is showing up here at the top of the page.
It also happens to be showing the title of that particular module.
That's what that word Breadcrumbs is.
By the way, showing the word Breadcrumbs is not terribly helpful,
because Web designers and developers tend to know the term Breadcrumb, but your average
Web surfer certainly doesn't know the word Breadcrumb.
So let's go back and make sure that that is turned off.
So back into the back end of Joomla!
we will go to Breadcrumbs one more time and here where it says Show Title,
we will set that Hide and we will say Save & Close.
You might be wondering why the vbreadcrumb title didn't show when it was down
at the module position down at the bottom of the page, but it is showing here at the top.
That has to do with the type of module chrome is being used with a particular module.
And by module chrome this happens to be the HTML that's wrapped around a module
before it's displayed on a Web page.
This is configurable through the template and I'll cover how you can configure
module chrome in my Joomla! Responsive Templates course.
But for right now you can simply turn on and off the title and that will take
care of any issues that you might have with the title showing when you don't
want to have it showing rather than coding that into the template itself.