Breadcrumbs

Introduction

Breadcrumbs in Joomla 4 has developed an unworkable situation for which there is a very simple solution - an extension.

Update at 17th Ocober 2025. UWiX version 3.4.0 is dated 1st March 2019 [no longer available], whereas the Jommla version is 3.0.0 is dated 1st July 2006.

The Problems

Google has messaged to say there are two problems with the Joomla Breadcrumbs. The message is as follows:

Breadcrumbs issues detected on https://www.wp.tdocplus.co.uk/
Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 1 Breadcrumbs issues:
The following errors were found on your site:
Missing field 'itemListElement'

The code Google high lights is:

<ol itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/BreadcrumbList" class="mod-breadcrumbs breadcrumb px-3 py-2">
<li class="mod-breadcrumbs__here float-start">
You are here: &#160;
</li>

The second is as follows:

Unparsable structured data issues detected on https://www.wp.tdocplus.co.uk/
Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 1 Unparsable structured data issues:
The following errors were found on your site:
Incorrect value type '@id'>

This problem was detected in J3, and brought to everyones attention.

• https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=974526
• https://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/26268
• https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=983766

The solution for J3 was to alter the settings in Breadcrumbs to set "Last" to Hide in the Breadcrumbs module. However in J4 this has a stange effect - illustrated by the two images below:

The Solution

In summary - you have three options as follows:

• Use the default and have Google make comments
• Use the J3 solution and have an erroneous Breadcrumb
• Dump Joomla's Breadcrumbs in favour of that from www.uwix.nl

The procedure is as follows:

1. Install BreadCrumbs Advanced Module - https://uwix.nl/downloads-edoc-mnu/bca-edoc-mnu/breadcrumbs-adv-edoc-340/download.html
2. Set module breadcrumbs position to none, and unpublish. [save overhead]
3. Set module breadcrumbs advanced position to breadcrumbs, and publish. Do NOT forget to enable menu on all pages !
4. Disable breadcrumbs. [save overhead] - NOTE: The extension "mod_breadcrumbs" (ID 204) is locked and cannot be uninstalled.