What are some good ways to implement breadcrumbs on a Jekyll site?

Question

I\'m aware that there are single-level breadcrumbs in http://raphinou.github.com/jekyll-base/ but I\'m looking for some good ways to have breadcrumbs on a Jekyll sit

Answer 1

I found an alternative technique that is not entirely automatic but that works on GitHub pages.

It consists of creating a data file with the list of possible paths. For example, here is _data/breadcrumbs.csv for my site:

url,title
/,Home
/api/,API
/api/jsonarray/,JsonArray
/api/jsonbuffer/,JsonBuffer
/api/jsonobject/,JsonObject
/api/jsonvariant/,JsonVariant
/doc/,Manual
/example/,Examples
/news/,News
/faq/,FAQ

Then, a simple loop creates the breadcrumb:

  {% for crumb in site.data.breadcrumbs %}
    {% assign url_prefix = page.url | slice: 0, crumb.url.size %}
    {% if (url_prefix == crumb.url) and (page.url != crumb.url) %}
    

      
        {{ crumb.title }}
      
    
    {% endif %}
  {% endfor %}
  

    
      {{ page.title }}
    
  

See this article for details and links to the implementation.