Announcing the immediate availability of Breadcrumb NavXT Multidimension Extensions 2.5.2. One bug was fixed in this version. This version fixes issues with the display functions when the $return parameter was set to false and using Breadcrumb NavXT 6.1 and newer.
You can grab Breadcrumb NavXT Multidimension Extensions from the WordPress.org plugin repository.
-John Havlik
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Holy REST API Batman! New in this release is the addition of REST API endpoints for posts (of any post type), terms (of any taxonomy), and author archives. Support for root pages for author archives was also added. Additionally, support for microdata format Schema.org BreadcrumbList was added to the included widget.
On the bug fix front, two bugs were fixed in this version. One bug involved a PHP warning being thrown due to get_term() not returning an instance of WP_Term. The other involved fixing the incorrect label for the Schema.org BreadcrumbList RDFa format option.
The Breadcrumb NavXT REST API introduces endpoints for retrieving Schema.org BreadcrumbList compliant JSON-LD formatted breadcrumb trails for posts, terms, and author archives. For applications that do not need the REST API, it may be disabled by defining BCN_DISABLE_REST_API to be false in wp-config.php. See the Breadcrumb NavXT Rest API Reference for more information.
Previously, support for Breadcrumb NavXT was provided on this site and the WordPress.org sub-forum for Breadcrumb NavXT. Breadcrumb NavXT even included a link to the release announcement for reporting bugs. However, starting with 6.1.0, official support is moving completely over to the WordPress.org sub-forum for Breadcrumb NavXT. Most support queries already come through the forums, this just codifies it. Users of the premium extensions with valid support license keys still receive email support initiated via the support ticket form.
As always, you can grab the latest version of Breadcrumb NavXT from the Breadcrumb NavXT page. If you experience any issues with this version of Breadcrumb NavXT, please leave a comment on this post detailing the issue.
-John Havlik
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Announcing the immediate availability of Breadcrumb NavXT Multidimension Extensions 2.5.1. Two bugs were fixed in this version. One issue relating to the erroneous inclusion of a root breadcrumb for the page post type when calling bcn_display_list_multidim_children(). Additionally, a bug that caused the $force parameter to not work for both bcn_display_list_multidim_* functions (and throw a PHP error), has been fixed. Note that this also affected the widget’s “Ignore breadcrumb cache” option.
You can grab Breadcrumb NavXT Multidimension Extensions from the WordPress.org plugin repository.
-John Havlik
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This is the fourth bug fix release of the 6.0 branch of Breadcrumb NavXT. Two bugs were fixed in this release: both issues that resulted in PHP Notices being generated. One on the page for posts when the display blog breadcrumb option was disabled was fixed. The other, on the archive pages when attachments are set to display in said archive. Additionally, the settings change that required migration in 6.0.0 is now automatically applied to the settings used by bcn_display().
The first issue was due to the massive reworking of the bcn_breadcrumb_trail class. In the process of making the fill() function pass in the state into the do_* functions, the code handling the inclusion/exclusion of the blog breadcrumb was erroneously partially removed. While this was mostly fixed in 6.0.1, when on the blog page, and when the blog breadcrumb was set to be excluded, PHP Notices were thrown due to improper handling of this situation.
The second issue, as with the first, was due to the reworking of the bcn_breadcrumb_trail class. The call to do_root() in the block that handles archives ends up with a PHP notice due to the root page not being defined for attachments. This only happens when explicitly modifying WordPress’ behavior so that it includes attachments to the results of a wp_query for archives.
In 6.0, the internal name for the hierarchy type and hierarchy display settings was changed to match their actual function (previously they were taxonomy type and taxonomy display). Without migrating the user settings to the new names, the default values will be used by Breadcrumb NavXT. For many users, this is not a problem. However, if either of these settings had been adjusted, the behavior would not match expectations until the user ran the migration routine in the settings page.
As always, you can grab the latest version of Breadcrumb NavXT from the Breadcrumb NavXT page. If you experience any issues with this version of Breadcrumb NavXT, please leave a comment on this post detailing the issue.
-John Havlik
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This is the third bug fix release of the 6.0 branch of Breadcrumb NavXT. Two bugs were fixed in this release: an issue that allowed an improper breadcrumb to be added to the trail for pages, and an issue where the roots for posts and pages were not tracking updates made under Settings > Reading.
Both issues stem from a common cause. Previously, posts of the post and page post types were treated specially within bcn_breadcrumb_trail. In both cases, this special code was largely redundant provided a few changes were made. While these changes were made, a few things were lost along the way.
The first caused do_root to try to inject a breadcrumb for a root page for pages (doesn’t currently make sense for it to do as that’s the home breadcrumb). In some cases this breadcrumb was missing a title, so it looked like there was a double separator. In other cases, a title was used, but it did not make sense for the breadcrumb trail.
The second was the result of removing the hard-coded ties for root pages of posts and pages. Since the root pages were no longer hard-coded they could fall out of synchronization with the dashboard settings. Hence, changes made to the homepage, under Settings > Reading, would not be reflected in the breadcrumb trail.The equivalent issue for posts was fixed when fixing the issue regarding the inclusion of the blog breadcrumb in 6.0.1.
As always, you can grab the latest version of Breadcrumb NavXT from the Breadcrumb NavXT page. If you experience any issues with this version of Breadcrumb NavXT, please leave a comment on this post detailing the issue.
-John Havlik
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