Due to some very drastic changes in the API and administrative interface, the next Breadcrumb NavXT version will be tagged 3.0 rather than 2.2. The newly rewritten administrative interface takes advantage of modern WordPress plugin methods. In this version the number of database queries have been reduced significantly. This significantly increases the speed of Breadcrumb NavXT for users of the administrative interface. A sidebar widget is built in to the plugin making it possible to add in a breadcrumb trail without modifying a single PHP file. When using the Tabular NavXT plugin, on the Breadcrumb NavXT admin page, as well as others, after clicking “Save Changes” to submit the form the user is returned to the tab they were on (rather than reload on the general tab).

Breadcrumb NavXT 3.0 is in a feature lock beginning immediately. All features that are not in Beta 2 will be pushed back to 3.1 for introduction. With the new heavily object based plug-in introduction of most features is much simpler than before. Additionally, when directly accessing the class, object oriented programming techniques can be used to easily extend it in a very clean manner. Two weeks will be allowed for translators to make new, up-to-date translations and for bugs to be reported and fixed. That means the release date will be around the 12th of September.

Download Breadcrumb NavXT 3.0 Beta 2.

-John Havlik

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