Author Archives: John Havlik

Next Breadcrumb NavXT

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A week and a day a go Breadcrumb NavXT 2.1 was released. So far only one new bug has appeared. This happens for users of PHP4, and an upcoming bug fix release, 2.1.1 will contain a fix for that. What’s in store for Breadcrumb NavXT 2.2? Officially, there is one big thing that should be implemented in it. That is support for paged pages/posts/archives/searches/etc. Currently, basic framework exists for supporting these pages, and even an option to enable rudimentary support which was added in 2.0. Full support for these page types needs to be implemented, which is the last “unconquered” frontier. A widget plug-in will also make it to 2.2. I’m setting the intended release of 2.2 to be sometime this summer, think around July. In 2.2 there will be some additional changes to the core plug-in as things are better organized and modularized within it.

The reason for placing the release of 2.2 in July is so that it allows some time for additional bugs to be caught and fixed along with allowing time to complete the documentation. If everything goes as planned, the documentation for Breadcrumb NavXT will be fully written some time in June (possibly sooner). Until then, there is always Berry to work on, which will be released at the end of this month. Additionally, WP Trainer may actually rear it’s head if time permits.

-John Havlik

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CSS Naked Day 2008

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Ok, this is a little premature, but what ever. Tomorrow is CSS naked day, so in honor of this, this blog’s CSS will be removed for the entirety of that day. This is to promote web standards, which Microsoft seems incapable of following.

Also, it was reported to me that the download links are not working, this is due to a bug in the plug-in that I use for downloads, I’m going to install a SVN version of it that is compatible with WordPress 2.5

-John Havlik

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Breadcrumb NavXT 2.1

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Holy taxonomy options Batman! With Breadcrumb NavXT you can now have breadcrumbs delimit posts by either hierarchical categories or linear tags. Improvements were also made in the max title trimming for posts. The administrative interface was heavily tweaked, as was the bcn_security function, it should no longer produce errors. On API malfunctions, instructions are now provided on a known method of fixing the problem. Lastly, attachments to pages will now show the full page hierarchy leading up to them, in contrast to attachments to posts which only show the parent post name. Also, WordPress 2.5 is required for this version, it fixed some things and made other things easier to implement.

Just a note to users that directly access the bcn_breadcrumb class, the method of displaying things has changed from 2.0. The class was heavily reorganized, again, to allow it to be more modular. You must call the member function assemble() before calling display().

Find out more about the changes on the project page for Breadcrumb NavXT.

-John Havlik

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WordPress 2.5

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Somewhat of an unexpected release, 2.5 is now available. Released sometime this morning, WordPress 2.5 brings fixes to over 700 bugs. This includes a fix to the permalink bug for attachments that I mentioned previously in Permalink Problems. Attachments in general received some needed attention in 2.5 as well did the administrative interface. Most plug-ins that worked in 2.3 should work in 2.5, so don’t hesitate to upgrade to 2.5.

Breadcrumb NavXT 2.1 will be released by Wednesday April 2nd, 2008. I’m just doing some testing and tweaking. It seems that the install function is working again for it in 2.5. A widget version of the plug-in won’t make it until 2.2, but it is definitely on the road map.

As you may or may not have noticed, depending on browser caching, Cran-Berry is running on this blog now. There are still several things that need to be fixed, and as time progresses things will become cleaner and more feature filled. Some CSS tweaking will occur as well as some other changes to give the user some consistency between the Dashboard and it. Additionally the search form needs some lovin’.

-John Havlik

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Internet Explorer 6 Users

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Please note that I no longer support IE6. IE7 has been out for way over a year now and IE8 is on its way. I do know that the method that I use for centering the main content does not work in the IE8 beta, even though it works on every other modern browser in existence. That really does not matter as Cran-Berry will be here soon enough and it’s a wider theme that will have that problem resolved.

-John Havlik

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