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Breadcrumb NavXT 3.6.0

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Holy custom post types batman! With Breadcrumb NavXT 3.6.0 you can now have breadcrumb trails for all of those custom post hierarchies and custom post-custom taxonomy combinations. Additionally, if you use the built in widget for Breadcrumb NavXT, you can restrict the display of the breadcrumb trail on the front page. On the settings page side, Breadcrumb NavXT settings page no longer warns, it allows you to undo. You can undo save, reset, import, and undo actions. Finally, a Japanese translation is now shipped thanks to Kazuhiro.

There are a few minor bug fixes in this release. These mainly cover issues that have been around for a while but were never reported.

Please note that this release requires at least WordPress 3.0. It was developed in a WordPress 3.0 environment, and was not tested in WordPress 2.9. If it works for you in WordPress 2.9 (why are you still on anything older than WordPress 3.0?), let me know in the comments to this post.

You can grab the latest version of Breadcrumb NavXT from the Breadcrumb NavXT page.

-John Havlik

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Road to Breadcrumb NavXT 3.6.0

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As of tonight, the Breadcrumb NavXT SVN Trunk is in a feature freeze. All of the features I wanted to include in 3.6.0 have been implemented and it is now time to debug and perform regression testing. By Friday, Breadcrumb NavXT 3.6.0 will be released to the translators. This places the release around the 23rd of August. Features that need extensive testing are:

  • Custom post type support (hierarchical post types in particular)
  • Custom taxonomy type support in conjunction with custom post types
  • The new “Undo” function

The first two have been implemented for a while now, the last one is new as of the last two nights. Rather than prompt to confirm the user really wants to reset the options or import options from a file, Breadcrumb NavXT now allows the user to undo their last settings changes. This uses another entry in the wp_options table, which is not set to autoload (the version entry is now set to not autoload as well) so it does not impact site performance in any significant way. Since much of the undo functionality is in the mtekk_admin class, these changes will make their way into the next WP Lynx as well.

Things that did make 3.6.0 are:

  • Full support of multi-blog WordPress setups
  • Auto integration with popular theme frameworks
  • Slight tweaks to the options export/import format

These are planned for 3.7.0, which will be the first Breadcrumb NavXT version to require WordPress 3.0. Look for 3.7.0 in the mid to late November time frame. This is pushed back a little from the previous road map, but it allows me to pursue other cool projects (more on these later).

-John Havlik

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Breadcrumb NavXT Line 53 Error

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If you are receiving an error similar to the following while activating Breadcrumb NavXT, please continue reading.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /wp-content/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/breadcrumb_navxt_admin.php on line 53

This should be only caused by PHP4. The line of code PHP is failing on is protected $version = '3.5.1';. Specifically, it is the protected part that PHP4 does not know about, and subsequently chokes on. Some users have claimed to receive this in a PHP5 environment. If you receive this error, please insert

<?php
if (current_user_can('administrator')){
    phpinfo();
}
?>

somewhere in your footer. Then, open up a page on your site and look in the output from phpinfo for your PHP version. If the version is not PHP5.2 or newer, please inquire with your webhost on how to migrate to a modern PHP installation. If the output states you have a version of PHP that is 5.2 or newer, please copy the output and e-mail it to me (full output). Feel free to provide an abridged output in the comments section of this page.

-John Havlik

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WP Lynx 0.1.3

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This is a minor improvement to the previous release of WP Lynx. It fixes a few issues reported by users. These include fixing an issue involving non UTF-8 encoded sites, and a fix for users on hosts with php safemode enabled. Finally, error reporting is improved slightly. As always, if you thing you found a bug please report it.

The next planned release, 0.2.0, will have some cool new features. Additionally, the settings page will be reorganized a little to make it easier to use. More on this as development progresses.

-John Havlik

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Breadcrumb NavXT is in a Book

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So today I received an email stating that a plugin of mine is featured in a book about WordPress—I wonder which one it was. After doing a little research I confirmed that the book does, indeed cover Breadcrumb NavXT—the email wasn’t very specific as to which plugin they were talking about, and I almost passed it off as spam.

The book is “WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook” by Peter Spannagle and Sarah Soward. As the title suggests it covers WordPress and integrating flash elements into it (Yes, I find it odd that Breadcrumb NavXT is in it, but whatever). The section covering Breadcrumb NavXT is in chapter 2, and does a decent job representing it. Though, personally I would have elaborated a little more on it. In particular, I would have been a little more specific in the installation instructions—the provided instructions could lead to a different plugin being installed.

Unfortunately, with the fast pace of software development, the book is sort of out of date (not as bad as a WordPress 2.8 Themes book released this month by the same publisher). Luckily, Breadcrumb NavXT has not changed enough for the instructions in the book to be invalid or misleading. If you are looking for a book on WordPress and Flash you may want to check it out. You can pick up a copy from the usual place (Amazon).

-John Havlik

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