Blog Posts Navigation
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Hi,
The blog post page is nice. However, when you press a blog post and the post page opens, there is no “return” or “back” button to navigate back to the list of blogs posts. (apart from at the end of the blog post there is a “Previous” button with an arrow, but there really needs be some navigation at the top too.
Something similar to this I think would make sense:
HOME >> BLOG >> POST NAME
The default blog post list has “Home / Blog” at the top left above “In Blog”, but they don’t do anything, and when reading a post, there is no “Home / Blog” at the top.
When selecting for example the “demo” blog post “How to Stay Productive When Working From Home” you enter the post ok, but above the post title, there is only the word “Hacks”, which I assume is called a breadcrumb or something, but there’s no “Home” or “Back” or “Return” there.
I don’t know if this is something that we are best to implement manually using some plugin like Yoast (if it adds this functionality), but it would be great if you either implemented this, OR explained the best way to do it ourselves. Or make it a theme settings “option” that you can turn on or off.
I am happy to use a plugin to add the blog navigation if that is possible, but I don’t know which and I want it to work and look seamlessly with your Lemmony theme / Agency child theme, so best to follow any guidelines you have, or if you simply add it to a future theme update, so that instead of only saying “Hacks” it says something like this (formatting is just an example, ideally prettier than this example), perhaps wit the keywords like “Hacks” above it?
HOME >> BLOG >> POST NAME
That’s the format I have on another website, so that you can easily go back to the list of blog posts.
At the moment, I have to press the browsers “back” arrow, or scrool all the way down to the bottom of post, or click “Blog” at top menu, both those options are not great for visitors.
If it can be added with Yoast, then you don’t need to do anything, but perhaps explain how to enable it?
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Hi there,
Ok I manually added a new Block in the Site Editor -> Templates > Single page template, as Yoast Breadcrumbs was a block available to insert, so I inserted in at the top above for example “Hacks”.
That did add breadcrumbs, however, only like this:
Home » Talking to Inanimate Objects Made Me a Better Designer
As you can see, it does not show “Blog” after “Home”.
Me, and probably most websites need a Category to be “Blog” for posts. So that it would look like this when viewing a single post:
Home » Blog » Talking to Inanimate Objects Made Me a Better Designer
But in Yoast Breadcrumbs settings, the theme’s default page “Blog” is not selectable in Categories or elsewhere for breadcrumbs.
In the tutorial video for Breadcrumbs for Yoast, they create a Static page “Blog” and then they go to Homepage settings, and change “Posts page” to “Blog”. But with your theme, if we touch the Homepage settings, the homepage landing page becomes the “In Blog” page, which is not what we want. Actually, even if we Select “Homepage” to ” — Select–” and Post page to “– Select–” our landing page still becomes “In Blog” for your theme.
So, please advice how we can get “Blog” to show as mentioned above in the breadcrumbs in your theme.
This video by Yoast shows how it is supposed to be setup if you have a static “In Blog” or “Blog” page, for your reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkI7UmGaM_UUpdate:
Problem almost solved. The trick was to create an “Empty” Home page, like you suggested in another support thread “How set “Your homepage displays”“
When creating an empty (home) page, then it is possible to select Home Page settings for the WordPress in “Appearance -> Customize” and select the empty page as “Homepage”, I named it “Empty Page”. Then you can select “Blog” below in “Posts Page”.
Now, when you insert a new block “Yoast Breadcrumbs” in your Site Editor > Templates > Single , you magically get this format, as an example:
“Home » Blog » Is Getting a Dog The First Step To Parenthood?”
The only issue is that this works for all blog posts apart from the 1st blog post, it does not display breadcrumbs, but 2nd and 3rd blog post does.
Please advise why this is for the theme.
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