How To Change The “Home” Text & Destination Link On StudioPress Themes

Do you currently have an official StudioPress Sites theme and have breadcrumbs showing or are using another plugin to show them? I got a better solution to the breadcrumbs and it involves installing the Yoast SEO plugin. Just enable the breadcrumb feature in the SEO guide provided. This is an amazing plugin to have in general. Take a look at the breadcrumb structure being shown in these search results.

The Yoast SEO plugin really is what makes the breadcrumb structure appear like that in the search results. Keep Google happy and install this plugin. Now if you want to modify the breadcrumb text, you can do this easily through the SEO plugin.

• Yoast Tutorial: How To Set Up The Yoast Premium SEO Plugin

Keep reading for these coding tweaks.

Modify The Home Link

Let’s say you don’t want the visitor to go back to the homepage when they click on the word “home”. Add the following code at the bottom of your functions.php file.

//* Do NOT include the opening php tag shown above. Copy the code shown below.

//* Modify Home breadcrumb link.
add_filter ( 'genesis_home_crumb', 'sp_breadcrumb_home_link' ); // Genesis >= 1.5
add_filter ( 'genesis_breadcrumb_homelink', 'sp_breadcrumb_home_link' ); // Genesis =< 1.4.1
function sp_breadcrumb_home_link( $crumb ) {
	return preg_replace('/href="[^"]*"/', 'href="http://example.com/home"', $crumb);
}

Edit the URL:

http://example.com/home

The reason for the /home in the URL is because that is what makes people go back to the homepage if they click on the “home” link in the breadcrumb bar. Change that slug to any page you want to on your blog. Now go back to your Yoast SEO plugin and change the home to the page title you just used in the new link:

I actually made this change on my test blog to make the “Home” text link to WP Plugins and linked it to our plugin’s page: https://www.wpoutcast.com/plugins/

For a few SEO tips, take a look at the following blog post: 3 Website Fundamentals You Need for Better Search Engine Optimization.

Want those review stars next to certain blog posts? Follow our guide on How To Display Ratings In Google Search Results for instructions. Breadcrumbs are important but there are far more other things that are important when it comes to SEO. If this blog post has been helpful in any way, consider sharing it online with your followers.

The littles theme tweaks may go unnoticed by most of your visitors but it’s important to have breadcrumbs active on your blog.