Holy HTTP referer influenced taxonomy selection Batman! The oft-requested, and quite delayed feature finally made it into Breadcrumb NavXT with the release of version 5.5.0. For the breadcrumb templates, translate, and lang were added as acceptable attributes for most HTML tags supported. Additionally, scrset, and sizes were added as acceptable attributes for img tags. Finally, itemprop was added as an approved attribute for meta tags.

Two bugs were squashed in this release. The first bug involves working around 3rd party plugins that modify the post type of the $post global. The second resolves a bug where a custom post type did not have a root page set, Breadcrumb NavXT could end up incorrectly using the root page for the Post post type. Finally, there are a couple of behavior changes to note for how a taxonomy term is selected for a post (when the post is a member of multiple terms for the same taxonomy) and for users of date and post parent hierarchies.

Behavior Changes

The internal mechanisms for handling date and post parents as the hierarchy for a post type has changed. In the past, these were represented by having the taxonomy_type option for the post type set to ‘date’ for a date based hierarchy and ‘page’ for a post parent based hierarchy. They are now represented by the values ‘BCN_DATE’ and ‘BCN_POST_PARENT’. This is the first step in some internal cleanup for settings that have changed meaning since their original introduction. If you are using either a date based hierarchy, or a post parent based hierarchy, you will need to visit the Breadcrumb NavXT settings page and migrate the settings.

Additionally, the behavior of bcn_breadcrumb_trail::pick_post_term() has changed. In the past, it would return the first term for the post in question that had a parent term. This has changed to picking the deepest known child of the first hierarchy found in the list terms for the post in question. Note users of Order Bender, you will need to upgrade to Order Bender 0.7.0 (or newer) since previous versions relied on the old behavior of bcn_breadcrumb_trail::pick_post_term().

Translations

As explained in the Breadcrumb NavXT Translations Moving to Language Packs article, Breadcrumb NavXT has moved away from shipping translations with the plugin. This is the first release to ship without any included translations, all translations are available via language packs, or from the Breadcrumb NavXT Translation Project.

If you would like to contribute to translating Breadcrumb NavXT, please visit the Breadcrumb NavXT Translation Project. A big thanks to all of the translators that have contributed to the translations in the past and continue to contribute.

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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What’s this? Another bugfix release for WP Lynx? That’s right, announcing the immediate availability of the second bug fix release for WP Lynx 1.1. Two bugs were squashed in this release.

In 1.1.1, one of two bugs afflicting the uninstaller was fixed. However, there was still another bug that caused uninstalls to not work, this has been fixed in 1.1.2. And, to ensure this doesn’t slip through the cracks again, unit tests for the uninstaller were generated for this release. Additionally, a bug that caused permission issues when saving settings was fixed in this release.

You can grab the latest WP Lynx on the WP Lynx WordPress.org plugin page.

-John Havlik

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Holy new filters Batman! Breadcrumb NavXT 5.4.0 features several new filters and many bug fixes. Several fixes focus on strings and translations, including the addition of translation context for some strings. Additionally, date format strings for date breadcrumbs are now translatable. Two potential sources for PHP errors/warnings were mitigated. Lastly, the “Your settings are out of date” message no longer appears on fresh installs of Breadcrumb NavXT.

New Filters

Three new filters were added to Breadcrumb NavXT for 5.4.0. These are: bcn_post_terms, bcn_pick_post_term, and bcn_add_post_type_arg.

bcn_post_terms

Previously, it was not easy to to control the number of terms, or what terms, were displayed when the hierarchy for a post was set to a flat taxonomy type. The bcn_post_terms filter provides a method for modifying what terms are displayed in this situation.

bcn_pick_post_term

For posts belonging to multiple terms from a hierarchical taxonomy, Breadcrumb NavXT has, since 3.0, picked the first term with a parent, or the last term if none of the terms have parents. While this is an efficient method of picking the term, it is not applicable for all use cases. In the past, it was not easy to override this decision. There are ways to influence the selection based on the rule outlined above. But, this was not precise. The bcn_pick_post_term filter allows complete control over what term is selected by Breadcrumb NavXT.

bcn_add_post_type_arg

Introduced in Breadcrumb NavXT 5.3.0, the post_type query argument was added to archive URLs when it was determined that the current post type was not the native type for that archive (e.g. for date archives and some taxonomy archives). While this behavior is correct, it may not be desired for every site. In 5.4.0 the bcn_add_post_type_arg filter was added to provide a way to override the decision Breadcrumb NavXT makes in regards to adding the post_type query argument to a URL. See How to Remove post_type From Breadcrumb NavXT URLs for an example of how to use this new filter.

As always, checkout the Breadcrumb NavXT Documentation’s Filter Reference for more details on these filters, and the other filters in Breadcrumb NavXT.

Translations

As explained in the Breadcrumb NavXT Translations Moving to Language Packs article, Breadcrumb NavXT has moved away from shipping translations with the plugin. This is the first release to ship without any included translations, all translations are available via language packs, or from the Breadcrumb NavXT Translation Project.

If you would like to contribute to translating Breadcrumb NavXT, please visit the Breadcrumb NavXT Translation Project. A big thanks to all of the translators that have contributed to the translations in the past and continue to contribute.

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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