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Breadcrumbs

The small trail of links above a page's heading — which pages get one, how to change the wording, and how to add or remove it.

A breadcrumb trail is the small line of links that sits above a page's heading and shows where the page lives on your website:

Home / Services / Roof repair

It gives a visitor a one-click way back up to the section they came from, and search engines print it in place of the raw web address underneath your page's title.

Which pages get one

Use breadcrumbs in your website's settings decides whether Max adds trails. It is on for every new website.

  • When it is on, every page except the homepage gets a trail — a service under Services, a blog post under your blog, and on a small website even the About and Contact pages.
  • Your homepage never does. It is the top of the trail, so it has nothing to point back to.
  • When it is off, Max adds none, and any trail already in your pages is hidden.
  • If you rebuilt an existing website, Max copies what that website did. If your old site showed breadcrumbs, the rebuild shows them the same way; if it did not, the rebuild has none.

You can always overrule this. Ask Max for breadcrumbs on a page — or ask for them to go — and it does exactly that.

Changing the wording

Every trail on your site is drawn by one shared section, so a change to how it looks reaches every page at once and no two pages can drift apart.

To change the words on a single page, open the page in Edit mode, click the trail, and edit its fields in the panel:

  • Home label — what the first link is called. "Home" by default.
  • Parent page and Parent link — the section this page belongs to, and the page that link opens.
  • This page — the last item, the one that is not a link.

Removing the section from a page removes that page's trail; the rest of the site keeps theirs.

Things worth knowing

  • The last item is the page you are on, so it is text rather than a link.
  • Every link in a trail points at a real page on your site. If a section has no page of its own, Max leaves that step out rather than linking somewhere that does not exist.
  • The labels match the names your menu uses, so the trail reads the way your site does.
  • Rename or move a page and Max updates the trails that mention it, the same way it updates your menu.

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