Also here the update broke the breadcrumbs.
Sub categories aren’t displayed no more, only the first… unless you don’t manually edit the child category in > primary.
But it makes no sense, besides the fact that we would have to fix all the posts one by one.
I’m noticing the same thing. However, I’ve got an extra sub-level (four levels in total), and the problem is occurring on the last one only. Looks like if there is more than one sub-level, the last sub-level isn’t being picked up. The problem isn’t occurring if there is only one sub-level.
For those who are using Category Permalink, there’s no problem if a primary category was already selected — Yoast automatically picks it up and makes it primary for its breadcrumbs, too. But if a primary category wasn’t already selected (in all likelihood because the WordPress default was correct and so there was no need), then the problem does exist. If possible, set the category permalink before updating the Yoast plugin to avoid the issue.
To me looks like a classic case of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
I have only one sub-category per category, and I don’t have /category/ permalink. It’s a simple case:
Parent category > sub-category. Stop. (I have no post title because I don’t want it repeated – already removed via wp_seo_get_bc_title filter).
Why don’t display my only sub-category?
Now is not a breacrumb, it’s only “hey, your are in this big category”.
I don’t understand if this is really a bug or it’s intentional, so if it won’t be fixed, I’ll deactivate Yoast breadcrumb and integrate the function manually via template (as I had in the pre-Yoast era).
For my Custom Post Type & Custom Taxonomy (2-level hierarchy) based setup I used to have all of them in the breadcrumb when one goes to the Single custom post type entry:
Home > Taxonomy Level 1 > Taxonomy Level 2 > Single Custom Post Type
Now I am missing the 2nd child level taxonomy & get this:
Home > Taxonomy Level 1 > Single Custom Post Type
Hoping for a fix soon.
@tizz: It was “broke” for people who do use breadcrumbs and multiple categories, so something had to be done. Why would you think it won’t be fixed? Sounds to me like a classic case of “jumping to conclusions.”
For those who are using Category Permalink, there’s no problem if a primary category was already selected — Yoast automatically picks it up and makes it primary for its breadcrumbs, too. But if a primary category wasn’t already selected (in all likelihood because the WordPress default was correct and so there was no need), then the problem does exist. If possible, set the category permalink before updating the Yoast plugin to avoid the issue.
Bad news — as it turns out, this isn’t true for categories that have more than one sub-level after all. Making sure that all categories have a category permalink set in WP Category Permalink before updating the Yoast plugin doesn’t work. Yoast still displays the penultimate category as primary.
@julie @Niackery
so something had to be done
Something had to be done… where it has to be done… or randomly? Causing problems to those who didn’t have them before?
Beyond this breadcrumb issue – that’s not so important – the problem is that Yoast updates are often invasive, redundant, time-wasting, hasty and little tested, in other words: a nightmare.
Take a look at this forum and at the Github support: dozens of problems since the last update, and it’s not the first time.
Why they don’t do more testing before releasing the new version? It seems always done in a hurry.
In fact, usually after an upgrade other two or three follow right after in a few hours (not this time because now they have too much fixes to do). Not to mention the sitemap and permalinks, they are anyway always to check after an update.
Sometimes I think all of this is more harmful than instrumental, for the time lost due to change of configurations, things that disappear then return then disappear again, issues, and for nonsensical “improvement” as the recent, unstable snippet editor (really a nightmare), or like the old “pulls and drops” on the presence or not of “category” in the URL: I followed always Yoast advice and I gained only 404s (very little SEO).
I’m really tired of all of this complexity.
Yoast should keep it simple, and it would be more effective.
The future and the aim of the web should be simplicity and neatness.
And sometimes I think that users of the free version of the plugin are his unaware testers, and that it’s popular only because there are no viable alternatives.
@tizz: I don’t see the point of replying to the same old tired complaints…
For anyone else who’s interested in actually resolving this problem, I’ve opened an issue on Github.
@julie @Niackery – I didn’t ask you anything.
Let everyone have his own opinions, and leave me alone.
