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Breadcrumb NavXT 2010 Roadmap

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With the first beta of WordPress 3.0 being available, it’s time to think about Breadcrumb NavXT once again. Currently, the SVN version of Breadcrumb NavXT works in WP 3.0. All versions of Breadcrumb NavXT prior to 3.5 (not released yet), have known bugs in WP 3.0.

As Breadcrumb NavXT 3.5 is already upping the minimum WordPress version to 2.8, support for custom post types won’t make this release. Some modifications to the core will be done to enhance extensibility for those who don’t want to use OOP techniques (e.g. filter/action hooks will be added). The first “beta” of this will be available, without updated translations, in the next two weeks. After a month of beta status, translations should be updated and a release in early May (will be moved up to be within a few days of the WordPress 3.0 release, if not before).

Breadcrumb NavXT 3.6 will require WordPress 2.9 as custom post type support will be added. Depending on the time available this release may have enhanced multi blog support. Currently, it looks like this will show up sometime in July.

Breadcrumb NavXT 3.7 will wrap up any multi blog support not covered in 3.6. Depending on how WordPress 3.0 and 3.1 turn out, this version may require WordPress 3.0. This will be a fall release, probably sometime in October.

-John Havlik

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Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.1

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This is the first bug fix release for the 3.4 branch of Breadcrumb NavXT. Those with PHP short tags disabled should no longer get the unexpected $end on line 1567 in breadcrumb_navxt_admin.php error. Using the paged option will no longer cause a WP_Error to string conversion error. Finally, flat taxonomies leading up to a post will become linked again. Hopefully this covers all of the bugs in Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0, if you are still experiencing problems with 3.4.1, leave a comment below in the comments section.

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

-John Havlik

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An Unexpect End Error

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Ok, so a few of you have reported a PHP error involving an unexpected $end in breadcrumb_navxt_admin.php on line 1567. After some searching and thinking, the cause was found. Line 1248 of breadcrumb_navxt_admin.php has an improper opening tag (<? instead of <?php). For some reason only Windows based PHP installations were catching this. None-the-less, this has been fixed in the SVN trunk and a bug fix release, 3.4.1, will be made next week.

As one has not been able to reproduce this error on either of one’s testbeds, feedback from those who had this error is essential to ensuring that it is fixed. If you experience the error with Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0, please try the SVN trunk and see if it is resolved and report back in the comments section of this post.

-John Havlik

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Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0

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Holy custom taxonomies batman! With Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0 support for taxonomies was rewritten for support of WordPress’ custom taxonomies for taxonomy archives and posts. Additionally, dates may be used as the taxonomy in the breadcrumb trail for posts now. Finally, translations in Italian are now available thanks to Luca Camellini.

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

-John Havlik

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Road to Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0

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After numerous delays, development on Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0 has resumed. Currently, the status of hierarchical custom taxonomy support is being evaluated. Single level custom taxonomies appear to work correctly, minus a few things pertaining to Breadcrumb NavXT settings (e.g. it will still say “Archive by Tag:” on custom taxonomy archive pages). After that, for the 3.4.0 release, all that remains will be to do some reworking of the administrative interface to handle the new taxonomy structure. Do note that while hierarchical custom taxonomies are some what broken (in WordPress) at the moment, since the API is already there, when they do get fixed Breadcrumb NavXT will be ready to take full advantage of them.

Also, due to the change in how taxonomies are handled internally by Breadcrumb NavXT in version 3.4.0, versions of WordPress prior to 2.8 may generate errors. One is not checking for WordPress compatibility prior to 2.8.x.

By Monday, November 16th, the translation team will be notified that the SVN trunk version of Breadcrumb NavXT will be ready for translation updates. This places the release date for 3.4.0 on November 20th at the earliest, and November 23rd being the likely release date. The forecast for 3.5.0 places the release near the end of January, 2010.

-John Havlik

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