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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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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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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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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Want your breadcrumbs to show the tags your post is in, the latest development build of Breadcrumb NavXT will do that. To accommodate this new feature the settings API has been modified a bit to rename one option and three new ones were added. Naturally, hierarchical categories are the default setting, but if you’d rather use a flat scheme that can be done through tags. This is the only method to achieve displaying “multiple categories” that will be supported by Breadcrumb NavXT.
An additional note on the new breadcrumb class for 2.1. It will be possible to support breadcrumbs for pages that are dynamically generated by other plug-ins on existing WordPress pages. An example of such a page is the product pages created by e-commerce. This is due to a change in the class that has the breadcrumb generated separate of output. However, this does not mean I will be supporting these other plug-ins. The responsibility ultimately rests on the shoulders of the plug-in developers to support this. Note that the administrative interface will not work with this usage as the overriding plug-in will need to call and manipulate the class itself.
-John Havlik
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