Redirect breadcrumb link to specific page

Question

On each page of my website I have breadcrumb links above the page content. What I want to do is change the link so that when it is 'Home>Events>Example', the 'Events' link will redirect users to an events page instead of a category page.

So in summary, at the minute, clicking the Events breadcrumb link brings you to a category page of Event posts. I want it to instead bring users to a specific Event listings page.

What's the best way of doing this? My initial thought was to edit 'category-3.php' to replicate the Events page, but is there a better way? I want to do this for every scenario across the site where 'Events' is in the breadcrumb links.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff Wooden Jeff Wooden · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-13T01:35:48

Without seeing the code for the breadcrumb I'm going to have to make some assumptions. I imagine it iterates through a script somewhere that builds the breadcrumb based on the page structure. If you find that loop you can do an str_replace on it, also assuming that events pertains to a specific category with a URL that always remains the same.

So if you find the loop and find the variable that holds the link for event you can follow this example:

//crumb would be the variable that helps to build the entire bread crumb in the loop through .=
//e.g. $mainBreadCrumb.=$crumb each time the loop makes a pass

$crumb = '<a href="index.php/category-3.php/">Events</a>';

$crumb = str_replace("<a href="index.php/category-3.php/">Events</a>", "<a href="eventspage.php">Events</a>", $crumb);

That should get the job done, again, assuming that the original Events breadcrumb link does not change. If you need further help post the breadcrumb code.

Redirect breadcrumb link to specific page

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