February 25th, 2011

WP Lynx 0.3.0

Posted by John Havlik in WordPress > Plugins

Time for part two of the release wave. That’s right, a new version of WP Lynx is available. Templated Lynx Prints, and TinyURL url shortener support are the two big highlights for this release. Also new to this release is an “Add Lynx Print” button in TinyMCE that shows up when in full screen editing mode, along with a slightly tweaked Add Lynx Print screen.

Bug fix wise, WP Lynx will warn you in your settings page if you do not have the correct permissions in your wp-content/uploads directory. Additionally, the length of the remote server’s response is now checked before attempting to determine an image’s dimensions (prevents some PHP warnings).

-John Havlik

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February 21st, 2011

Breadcrumb NavXT 3.8.0

Posted by John Havlik in WordPress > Plugins

Holy paged posts batman! With Breadcrumb NavXT 3.8.0, pages, posts, and custom post types that use the <!–nextpage–> tag can now contain the Page # delimiter akin to the one for archives and the posts page. A new output function, display_nested() was added to facilitate support of Google’s Breadcrumbs RDFa and Microformat specification. Additionally, custom post types can now use dates as their taxonomy type in the breadcrumb trail.

This is version has one of the longest lists of fixes and improvements seen in quite some time. Several center around fixes to inadvertent issues introduced in 3.7.0. These include several PHP notices and warnings, auto-deactivation if the server is running PHP older than PHP5.2.0, multi-byte character UTF-8 support, translations loading on the widgets page, and safer handling of instances when the database copy of the settings do not exist.

Please note that the following translations have not been updated by their authors:

Dutch
Russian
German
Indonesian
Italian

These translations that will not be not be included in 4.0.0, unless they are updated. If you are fluent in any of these languages and wish to update these translations, let me know. I am sure many users will be grateful. Additionally, for translators, please do not set “Home” and “Blog” to the same word, it is incorrect, and causes confusion for users (if there is no suitable replacement for “Blog” in your language, just leave it as “Blog”).

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. Support for defects (bugs) will no longer be provided in the Breadcrumb NavXT page, in the documentation page, or in the FAQ page.

-John Havlik

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February 8th, 2011

WP Lynx 0.3 Preview

Posted by John Havlik in WordPress > Plugins

What will become WP Lynx 0.3.0 is feature complete. As with Breadcrumb NavXT, all features scheduled for this release, as stated in Plugin Roadmaps for H1 2011, have been implemented. All that remains is a little work on upgrade hooks. Technically, this is a mtekk_admin class issue, but it will benefit both WP Lynx and Breadcrumb NavXT.

By the end of the week Breadcrumb NavXT will be released to the translation team. The beginning of the release wave is expected to be February 21st, and will end with WP Lynx 0.3.0 on the 25th.

Grab the WP Lynx SVN Trunk version to try out 0.3.0 before it is released.

-John Havlik

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January 28th, 2011

Breadcrumb NavXT 3.8.0 Preview

Posted by John Havlik in WordPress > Plugins

What will most likely be Breadcrumb NavXT 3.8.0 is feature complete. All features scheduled for this release, as stated in Plugin Roadmaps for H1 2011, have been implemented. Just a little tidying up of loose ends is needed before sending it off for translation. Additionally, a tutorial demonstrating the new bcn_display_nested() function needs to be written. The intent is to release the tutorial the day of or after the release of 3.8.0.

The actual release date is deep into February. This is primarily due other commitments I have. Additionally, it allows time to prepare WP Lynx for the release wave.

Grab the Breadcrumb NavXT SVN Trunk version to try out 3.8.0 before it is released.

-John Havlik

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January 9th, 2011

Plugin Roadmaps for H1 2011

Posted by John Havlik in WordPress > Plugins

This year, with two plugins in an actual active development state, the plan is to try something a little different. Previously, Breadcrumb NavXT was the “favored child” that always received preferential treatment. As a result, releases slipped for the other plugins, namely WP Lynx.

Rather than separate development cycles, both Breadcrumb NavXT and WP Lynx will have synchronized release cycles. They will be released in “Release Waves”; Breadcrumb NavXT will aim for Mondays, WP Lynx will aim for Friday of the same week. Note that this is only for major releases, bug fix releases will maintain their “as needed” time line.