September 23rd, 2007

Breadcrumb Navigation XT 1.10.0

Posted by John Havlik in WordPress > Plugins

Now with 100% more tags. That’s right, WordPres 2.3 is right around the metaphorical corner, and in preparation Breadcrumb Navigation XT 1.10.0 is now safe for general consumption. Support for the Simple Tagging Plugin was dropped in favor of the WordPress 2.3 taxonomy scheme. Additional changes include some bug fixes with those combobox setting selectors in the administration interface and some code fix ups to use the WordPress API in a more consistent manner when dealing with taxonomy. Remember that this may cause PHP indigestion problems for WordPress 2.2 or earlier. The old version (1.9.x) will remain available for one month. However, version 1.9.x will no longer be supported one week after WordPress 2.3 is released.

-John Havlik

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September 22nd, 2007

Make Your List,

Posted by John Havlik in WordPress

Check it twice, find out whether your plug-ins are Naughty or Nice. Only days remain until WordPress 2.3 graces us with its presence. Due to some quite major changes in the database regarding categories and links, many plug-ins that directly accessed the database in the past will break. Some misbehave to the extent of crashing Apache on your web server. A big-time offender here is Extended Live Archives. While writing Breadcrumb Navigation XT 1.10.0, I spent some time testing various components of my blog in WP2.3. I also managed to update Berry to support tags (partially, as will be visible once WP 2.3 is out).

-John Havlik

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September 16th, 2007

Breadcrumb NavXT and WordPress 2.3

Posted by John Havlik in WordPress

This week WordPress 2.3-RC1 will be released. As it is a release candidate, it will more-or-less be what will be released next week. That being said, I will be testing the current plug-in for compatibility (minus tags). Should everything work fine there will be no need to migrate to a newer version to remain compatible with WordPress 2.3. Some schedule conflicts will force me to push off the re-writing of Breadcrumb Navigation XT for 2.0. Instead for 2.0, I will add support for archives by tags (really the only new thing to add for tag compatibility), and do a little code cleanup in preparation for a major overhaul in a future version (maybe 2.1 or 2.2). At that time an additional navigation related plug-in will be released, and Breadcrumb Navigation XT will be renamed Breadcrumb NavXT, and become part of the “NavXT” plug-in suite.

-John Havlik

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September 3rd, 2007

WordPress 2.3 Beta 1

Posted by John Havlik in WordPress

Guess what, WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 came out last week and after doing some initial testing, Breadcrumb Navigation XT will work as it currently does except for archives by tags. Since the default theme still has some work to be done to support tags properly, I will defer programming in support for tags until Beta 2 or 3. Feel free to do some playing around with WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 and Breadcrumb Navigation XT 1.9.3. And, by chance, if you find a bug report it please.

Oh, yeah, by the way, WordPress 2.3 as of Beta 1 does not support tags in syndication feeds, only categories.

-John Havlik

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August 16th, 2007

Breadcrumb Navigation XT Bug Fix

Posted by John Havlik in WordPress > Plugins

Some users, while trying to use the new administration system for Breadcrumb Navigation XT, had problems with the breadcrumb displaying. These users happen to be running PHP4. Since both my development environment and my web server run versions of PHP5, it is not a simple task of maintaining full PHP4 compatibility. In order to regain PHP4 compatibility version 1.9.2 was released today with a fix which is both in bad style and potentially dangerous. I am seeking a more elegant solution but until then this will have to do. Beginning with Breadcrumb Navigation XT 2.0.0, the way the Administration interface is handled will change and will eliminate the current problem.

-John Havlik

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