Changelog

This is the full changelog for all releases of Breadcrumb NavXT. It is here for reference purposes and it was getting too long to present in full on the main Breadcrumb NavXT page.

• 4.0.1 [1-3-2012]:
  New feature: Norwegian translations added props to Jan Rosvoldsve.
  Bug fix: Fixed line 591 and line 646 errors in multisite installs.
  Bug fix: Attachments will now obey the root page setting for their parent, regardless of the parent’s post type.
• 4.0.0 [12-14-2011]:
  Behavior change: Prefix, suffix, and anchor settings have been replaced with templates for all breadcrumb types.
  Behavior change: bcn_display_nested function was removed from the main plugin. Will appear in a supplementary plugin.
  Behavior change: Import/Export/Reset tab moved under the admin bar Help menu.
  Behavior change: Paged breadcrumbs are enabled in the default settings, among other subtle changes.
  New feature: More useful Help menu, utilizing the new WordPress 3.3 Help menu.
  New feature: True URLs are now generated for current items when link current item is enabled.
  New feature: The display of the custom post type archive breadcrumb for custom post types may now be disabled.
  New feature: Added in fallback functions for PHP’s multibyte character string functions for environments that do not have multibyte character support.
  Bug fix: Custom post type archives now respect the root page setting.
  Bug fix: Custom post types without WordPress post archives enabled will no longer cause a double root page breadcrumb to be generated.
  Bug fix: Tabs on the settings page are now rounded for all “modern” browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, and IE9.
  Bug fix: Tabs on the settings page are now remembered between setting saves (including multiple saves from within the same tab).
  Bug fix: Fixed another cause of the “The following settings were not saved” error message.
• 3.9.0 [5-31-2011]:
  Behavior change: Settings can not be saved, imported, or exported until any necessary settings updates and/or installs are completed.
  New feature: Support for WordPress 3.1 custom post type archives.
  Bug fix: Displays a warning message in the WordPress dashboard if PHP version is too old rather than trying to deactivate and dieing on all pages.
  Bug fix: Fixed a potential cause for the “options not saved” error.
  Bug fix: Fixed bug where the “Blog Breadcrumb” was not obeyed on archives.
• 3.8.1 [2-25-2011]:
  Bug fix: Root pages for custom post types should work again.
  Bug fix: The post_post_root and post_page_root not being saved warning when saving settings should be fixed.
• 3.8.0 [2-21-2011]:
  New feature: Error reporting added for some errors that may occur during a settings save.
  New feature: Custom post types may use dates as their taxonomy type.
  New feature: New display_nested function to facilitate support for Google’s Breadcrumbs RDFa and Microformat.
  New feature: Paged display works for all post types now (was previously restricted to archives).
  Bug fix: Fixed a few cases where Breadcrumb NavXT may cause PHP warnings.
  Bug fix: Automatically deactivates if PHP version is tool old rather than just displaying warning message.
  Bug fix: Custom post types that are not associated with any taxonomies no longer cause PHP Notices.
  Bug fix: Various PHP Notices introduced in 3.7.0 were fixed.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where multiple runs caused the current_item_prefix and current_item_suffix to be applied multiple times.
  Bug fix: The included display functions will behave more appropriately when database settings don’t exist.
  Bug fix: Fixed multibyte UTF-8 character support for custom taxonomies.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where the widget (Appearance > Widgets) would not load the appropriate translations.
• 3.7.0 [12-3-2010]:
  New feature: Support for “global”/network wide breadcrumb trails in networked setups of WordPress 3.0.
  New feature: Can use any hierarchical post type as a hierarchy for flat post types.
  New feature: Users are now warned if settings are out of date, allowed to do a one click settings migration.
  New feature: Users can now control if a post type uses the “posts page” in it’s hierarchy or not.
  Bug fix: Breadcrumb trails for attachments work properly now for custom post types.
  Bug fix: Users can now set custom post types to have a page hierarchy through the settings page.
  Bug fix: Fixed issues where the PHP version check did not work correctly.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where all settings would get reset on “clean” 3.6.0 installs on plugin activation.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue when a static front page is specified but the post page is not.
• 3.6.0 [8-23-2010]:
  New feature: Vastly improved support for WordPress custom post types.
  New feature: Can now restrict breadcrumb trail output for the front page in the included Widget.
  New feature: Can now undo setting saves, resets, and imports.
  New feature: Translations for Japanese now included thanks to Kazuhiro Terada.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where the class element were not closed in a li opening tag.
  Bug fix: Safer handling of blank anchor templates.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where the %title% tag in the current item anchor template would be trimmed.
• 3.5.1 [6-3-2010]:
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where a deactivation/activation cycle would reset all of the user specified settings.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where the archive by date suffix field did not save.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where custom taxonomy settings did not save.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where xml settings files would not import.
  Bug fix: French and German translations updated for 3.5.x.
• 3.5.0 [5-25-2010]:
  New feature: Added actions bcn_before_fill and bcn_after_fill, see documentation for more information.
  New feature: Widget rewritten to use the WordPress 2.8 Widget API, now multi-widget capable.
  New feature: Widget output can be in list form, can be in reversed order, and can be unlinked.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where the current tab was forgotten after a save in the settings page.
  Bug fix: Fixed various WP API issues with WordPress 3.0.
  Bug fix: Fixed title trimming so that it works properly with multi-byte characters.
• 3.4.1 [12-23-2009]:
  Bug fix: Fixed issue with PHP unexpected $end on line 1567 in breadcrumb_navxt_admin.php.
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where the %link% anchor tag would not be replaced with a URI for flat taxonomies (e.g. tags).
  Bug fix: Fixed issue where paged breadcrumbs would cause WP_Error objects to be thrown.
• 3.4.0 [12-17-2009]:
  New feature: Proper support of custom taxonomies. category_parents and post_tags replaced with term_parents and post_terms.
  New feature: Ability to use date as post “taxonomy”.
  New feature: Translations for Italian now included thanks to Luca Camellini.
  Bug fix: Fixed permalink for day breadcrumbs.
  Bug fix: Flat taxonomy archive breadcrumbs now are surrounded by both the standard and archive prefix/suffix combination.
• 3.3.0 [8-3-2009]:
  Behavior change: The core plugin was removed, and administrative plugin renamed, direct class access still possible.
  New feature: Ability to trim the title length for all breadcrumbs in the trail.
  New feature: Ability to selectively include the “Blog” in addition to the “Home” breadcrumb in the trail (for static front page setups).
  New feature: Translations for Russian now included thanks to Yuri Gribov.
  New feature: Translations for Swedish now included thanks to Patrik Spathon.
  Bug fix: Minor tweaks to the settings link in the plugins listing page so that it fits better in WordPress 2.8.
  Bug fix: Now selects the first category hierarchy of a post instead of the last.
• 3.2.1 [5-29-2009]:
  New feature: Translations for Belorussian now included thanks to “Fat Cow”.
  Bug fix: The bcn_display() and bcn_display_list() wrapper functions obey the
  $return parameter.
  Bug fix: Anchors now will be valid html even when a page/category/post title has html tags in it.
  Bug fix: Revised bcn_breadcrumb_trail::category_parents to work around a bug in get_category that causes a WP_Error to be thrown.
  Bug fix: Importing settings XML files should no longer corrupt html entities.
  Bug fix: Can no longer import and reset options at the same time.
  Bug fix: WordPress 2.6 should be supported again.
• 3.2.0 [5-4-2009]:
  New feature: Now can output breadcrumbs in trail as list elements.
  New feature: Translations for Dutch now included thanks to Stan Lenssen.
  New feature: Now breadcrumb trails can be output in reverse order.
  New feature: Ability to reset to default option values in administrative interface.
  New feature: Ability to export settings to a XML file.
  New feature: Ability to import settings from a XML file.
  Bug fix: Anchor templates now protected against complete clearing.
  Bug fix: Administrative interface related styling and JavaScript no longer leaks to other admin pages.
  Bug fix: Calling bcn_display() works with the same inputs as bcn_breadcrumb_trail::display().
  Bug fix: Calling bcn_display() multiple times will not place duplicate breadcrumbs into the trail.
• 3.1.0 [1-26-2009]:
  New feature: Tabular plugin integrated into the administrative interface/settings page plugin.
  New feature: Default options now are localized.
  New feature: Plugin uninstaller following the WordPress plugin uninstaller API.
  Bug fix: Administrative interface tweaked, hopefully more usable.
  Bug fix: Tabs work with WordPress 2.8-bleeding-edge.
  Bug fix: Translations for German, French, and Spanish are all updated.
  Bug fix: Paged archives, searches, and frontpage fixed.
• 3.0.2 [11-26-2008]:
  Bug fix: Default options are installed correctly now for most users.
  Bug fix: Now bcn_breadcrumb_trail::fill() is safe to call within the loop.
  Bug fix: In WPMU options now are properly separate/independent for each blog.
  Bug fix: WPMU settings page loads correctly after saving settings.
  Bug fix: Blog_anchor setting not lost on non-static frontpage blogs.
  Bug fix: Tabular add on no longer causes issues with WordPress 2.7.
  New feature: Spanish and French localization files are now included thanks to Karin Sequen and Laurent Grabielle.
• 3.0.1 [10-22-2008]:
  Bug fix: UTF-8 characters in the administrative interface now save/display correctly.
  Bug fix: Breadcrumb trails for attachments of pages no longer generate PHP errors.
  Bug fix: Administrative interface tweaks for installing default options.
  Bug fix: Changed handling of situation when Posts Page is not set and Front Page is set.
• 3.0.0 [9-22-2008]:
  New feature: Completely rewritten core and administrative interface.
  New feature: WordPress sidebar widget built in.
  New feature: Breadcrumb trail can output without links.
  New feature: Customizable anchor templates, allows things such as rel=”nofollow”.
  New feature: The home breadcrumb may now be excluded from the breadcrumb trail.
  Bug fix: 404 page breadcrumbs show up in static frontpage situations where the posts page is a child of the home page.
  Bug fix: Static frontpage situations involving the posts page being more than one level off of the home behave as expected.
  Bug fix: Compatible with all polyglot like plugins.
  Bug fix: Compatible with Viper007bond’s Breadcrumb Titles for Pages plugin (but 3.0.0 can replace it as well)
  Bug fix: Author page support should be fixed on some setups where it did not work before.
• 2.1.4 [7-15-2008]:
  Bug fix: Post title max length option regression fixed.
  Bug fix: Double Home breadcrumb in static front page setups fixed.
  Bug fix: Home Breadcrumb in static front pages can be removed globally as it should have been able to before.
• 2.1.3 [7-1-2008]:
  New feature: Support for the qTranslate plugin.
  Bug fix: Removed some options that already have WordPress equivalents, general Administrative interface cleanup.
  Bug fix: I18n support improved, added some strings that should have been there before.
  Bug fix: Improved security for the administrative form, using the standard WP nonce tools.
  Bug fix: Single posts under the category taxonomy now properly finds the first hiearchy all the time, the “Double Dipping the Hierarchy” problem is fixed.
• 2.1.2 [5-21-2008]:
  Bug fix: Problems with /blog/ and // showing up in current item links should be resolved.
  Bug fix: Static front page options should work as expected now.
  Bug fix: Paged items now work as they did in 2.0.x.
  Bug fix: Auto detection of static front pages has been fixed to be consistent across the board.
• 2.1.1 [4-25-2008]:
  Bug fix: Removed the array qualifier from the function header of bcn_select_options() this should fix compatibility issues with PHP4.
  Bug fix: Problems with linking the current item setting causing invalid XHTML output resolved.
  Bug fix: Behavior of linking current item works better in general.
• 2.1.0 [4-2-2008]:
  New feature: Administrative interface has been reworked to match the WordPress 2.5 administration panel.
  New feature: Breadcrumbs leading to posts can now be delimited by categories or tags (See new options: singleblogpost_taxonomy, singleblogpost_taxonomy_display).
  New feature: Attachments to pages will now show the full path to the attachment.
  New feature: When using the posttitle_maxlen option, the title will be trimmed to the nearest word, not exceeding the maximum length.
  Bug fix: Static front page support is back, supports the official WordPress static frontpage method.
• 2.0.4 [3-24-2008]:
  Bug fix: The warning generated by PHP on the use of strpos has been resolved.
• 2.0.3 [3-6-2008]:
  Bug fix: Administrative interface no longer interferes with WordPress global CSS styles.
  Bug fix: Usermeta errors will now also generate a usermeta variable dump (will aide in permanently solving the problem).
  Bug fix: The warning generated by some versions of PHP on the use of strpos has been resolved.
• 2.0.2 [2-15-2008]:
  Bug fix: Administrative interface default settings are now loaded when installing.
  Bug fix: Localization should work correctly now.
  Bug fix: Administrative interface now should handle html payloads in the form fields correctly.
  New feature: German localization files are now included thanks to Tom Klingenberg.
• 2.0.1 [1-25-2008]:
  Bug fix: Administrative interface errors now have more obvious meaning.
• 2.0.0 [1-19-2008]:
  New feature: Support for the standard WordPress localization methods.
  New feature: Support for the Polyglot plugin.
• 2.0.0 Beta 2 [11-30-2007]:
  Bug fix: Page hierarchy should work correctly now in hierarchies deeper than 3 pages.
  New feature: SVN repository at wp-plugins.org.
  New feature: Integration with the WordPress method of notification of new versions of the plugin.
• 2.0.0 Beta 1 [11-22-2007]:
  Initial Beta Release.
  New feature: Completely rewritten substructure
  New feature: Hierarchical categories.
  New feature: 100% WordPress API support, no more custom queries.

The following versions were released as Breadcrumb Navigation XT, before it was renamed Breadcrumb NavXT.

• 1.10.1 [10-05-2007]:
  Bug fix: “static front page” setting should now properly reflect the current value of the setting rather than the default/null value.
• 1.10.0 [9-22-2007]:
  New feature: Added support for WordPress 2.3′s tagging system (See new options ‘archive_tag_prefix’ and ‘archive_tag_suffix’).
  Bug fix: All combo box settings now properly reflect the current value of the setting rather than the default value.
• 1.9.3 [8-25-2007]:
  Bug fix: The new administration interface system now supports HTML entities more appropriately.
• 1.9.2 [8-16-2007]:
  Bug fix: The new administration interface system now will output a breadcrumb on PHP4 systems.
• 1.9.1 [8-12-2007]:
  Bug fix: Defaults now are loaded for the administrative interface.
• 1.9.0 [8-06-2007]:
  New feature: New administrative interface allowing easier implementation and customization of breadcrumb navigation menus.
  New feature: Output for date archives now has three different possibilities for ordering month, day, and year. (See new option ‘archive_date_format’)
  New feature: Output for searches now displays the searched text along with a prefix and suffix. (See new options ‘search_prefix’ and ‘search_suffix’)
  Bug fix: Now attachment posts are no longer seen as normal posts. (See new options ‘attachment_prefix’ and ‘attachment_suffix’)
• 1.8.0 [7-01-2007]:
  Initial release by John Havlik
  New feature: Option to limit the number of categories displayed in the breadcrumb when enabled. (See new option ‘singleblogpost_category_maxdisp’)
  Bug fix: Now author pages are no longer “broken”. (See new options ‘author_prefix’, ‘author_suffix’, and ‘author_display’)