Yearly Archives: 2012

WP Lynx 0.5.0

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What’s this, a new version of WP Lynx? Memorial day counts as “early summer” correct? Anyways, this version of WP Lynx includes the promised Open Graph support. By default it will take the og:image and og:description as the default thumbnail and print body. In addition, some tweaks were made to the core so that sites with newlines occurring in the middle of a tag are parsed correctly. Finally, a few bugs in the Lynx Print adding interface (Show/Hide link) were fixed.

-John Havlik

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Breadcrumb NavXT and WP Lynx Previews

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Breadcrumb NavXT has hit a feature freeze for 4.1.0. The only things left to do for the next release is some documentation updates, regression testing, and updating translations. Tomorrow the translation team will be notified of the two week window to get their translations updated (only 4 new strings) before 4.1.0 is released.

Try the latest Breadcrumb NavXT testing release from the Breadcrumb NavXT SVN Trunk.

WP Lynx has also hit a feature freeze for 0.5.0. Open Graph support has been added and all that is left to do is figure out the cause of a few ugly bugs that seem to only appear on my testbed. Additionally, one extra warning message needs to be added to the lynx print adding screen when thumbnails are disabled. See the WP-Lynx 0.5.0 milestone issue list.

Try the latest WP Lynx testing release from the WP Lynx SVN Trunk.

Expect the release of Breadcrumb NavXT 4.1.0 during the last week of May. As for WP Lynx 0.5.0, expect that some time in the first week of June.

-John Havlik

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Road to Breadcrumb NavXT 4.1.0

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After a brief hiatus, development of Breadcrumb NavXT has resumed. The next version, 4.1.0 will be released before the end of May. A major change from previous development cycles is that I am now developing primarily with Git as my version control system, synchronizing with SVN trunk only periodically (when things are quasi stable). I am also using GitHub’s milestone and issue tracking system for development. This move was prompted by my very positive experience using Aptana’s built in Git support on another project.

Development of features will be complete by the 23rd, and the tentative release date is the 31st. Translators will get a little over a week to update their translations (currently there are about 10 translation sets that are 90% or more complete).

Check in on 4.1.0 development progress on GitHub: Breacrumb NavXT 4.1.0 Milestone Issues

-John Havlik

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I’m Speaking at WordCamp NYC

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My presentation titled “The Power of Custom Post Types” was accepted into the DIY track for WordCamp NYC. Yes, it is on Custom Post Types. Inspiring members of the audience to use CPTs in their next project is the aim of the presentation. In the presentation I will be covering the basics of CPTs, showing a few cool tips and tricks, and showcasing some cool plugins that use CPTs (including one I have been working on for the past five months). There will be plenty of time for Q&A so bring your questions.

BTW, for those of you in the Twin Cities, you can get a preview of both my presentation, and Josh Leuze‘s presentation titled “jQuery the WordPress Way”at the next MSP WordPress meeting. Free pizza and beverages are provided by the Nerdery.

-John Havlik

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Worldwide WordPress 5k 2012

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Err, make that a 21.7k. Since I did not see a post about the World Wide WordPress 5k earlier this month, I had assumed it was going to be one of of those “one shot” initiatives. However, today I saw they just moved it to the end of April (to today). Due to this, the MSP WordPress user group did not get together for the WWP5k as we did last year. None-the-less I put in double digits worth of miles weekly again, so I’m going to count Saturday’s 13.4 mile run as my WWP5k run.

Saturday we had some sleet as we left for the run. Luckily, less than 5 minuets into the run we had run out of the rain/sleet and had about 11 very nice miles. During the last 2 miles the wind picked up and the sleet started again.

My goal for next year, other than not forgetting and organizing an run with the MSPWUG, is to get WP Trainer to a more usable state.

-John Havlik

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