 readme  id summary as the name suggests custom breadcrumbs allows you to create and modify your own breadcrumbs based on node type after enabling the module click on administer site building custom breadcrumbs on this page you ll see the option to add a new custom breadcrumb clicking on that link you have the option to select the node type the breadcrumb will apply to there are two text fields below titles and paths when creating a breadcrumb you re simply creating a link in the custom breadcrumbs interface titles describes the text of the breadcrumb while paths describes the drupal path the breadcrumb links to each title must have a corresponding path to give a very simple example of how to use this module let s say i have a blog on my web site called deep thoughts to create this i use the views module to create a page at blog that displays all the node types blog post whenever a user views a blog post i want the breadcrumb to show home deep thoughts instead of simply home to do this i would simply type deep thoughts in the titles field and and blog in the paths field and save my breadcrumb using the tokens module the custom breadcrumbs module becomes much more flexible because breadcrumbs can become dynamic you can create a breadcrumb like home deep thoughts month of blog post year of blog post where deep thoughts links to my main blog page and month of blog post year of blog post links to a view that shows only blog posts from the month and year the blog post was created eg june 2007 for this you would do the following node type blog post titles deep thoughts month yyyy paths blog blog mm yyyy where of course blog mm yyyy is the path to the view of blog posts from that month and year so if you created a blog pos on june 13 2007 your breadcrumb would show home deep thoughts june 2007 and june 2007 links to blog 062007 which is a view of all blog posts from june 2007 also note that custom breadcrumbs doesn t actually check to be sure that a particular path exists so you ll have to check yourself to avoid 404 errors only users with administer custom breadcrumbs permission will be allowed to create or modify custom breadcrumbs breadcrumb visibility users given use php in custom breadcrumbs permission can include php code snippet that returns true or false to control whether or not the breadcrumb is displayed note that this code has access to the node variable and can check its type or any other property special identifiers the following identifiers can be used to achieve a special behavior will clean any path using the current pathauto module settings if that module is installed can be used as a path to have a breadcrumb element that is not hyperlinked identifiers should be added to the paths area in the following format identifier path to be recognized the idenfier must be enclosed in angular brackets and proceed any part of the path for example ognameraw authors bennybobw dbabbage mgn  