Category Archives: Plugins

Related the WordPress plugins that I work on.

Breadcrumb NavXT 3.7.0

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Holy networked sites batman! With Breadcrumb NavXT 3.7.0, you can now have a complete, multi site wide, breadcrumb trail. Also new to this release are custom post type root pages, these are similar to the posts page setting that WordPress has for posts. Other notable features include the ability to use posts as a taxonomy for custom posts, and a settings version checker alerting to incomplete installs.

This version has many under the hood enhancements and bug fixes in regards to saving, and importing settings, installation, detection of unsupported PHP versions, and some rare use cases for Breadcrumb NavXT. Many of the previous upgrade and installation issues have a good workaround in place.

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

  • Russian
  • French
  • Spanish (update available in SVN trunk)
  • German
  • Indonesian

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.

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

-John Havlik

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Breadcrumb NavXT 3.7.0 Preview

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What will become Breadcrumb NavXT 3.7.0 has been released for translation to the translation team. With the upcoming holiday next week in the US, the official release is planned for Monday, November 29th. While the translators update their translations, there is plenty of time for interested users to try out the new version, play with the new features, and look for bugs.

There has been a ton of code change in regards to settings installs and upgrades. Support for multi sites has been added, and I definitely need feedback on the current implementation. Changes were made to how custom post types are supported, and a root page akin to the “page on front” and “posts page” settings in WordPress were added for each custom post type. Breadcrumb trails for attachments should display the full hierarchy once again. I accidentally broke that in the 3.6.0 release.

I will be performing several regression tests, on top of what has already been done, over the next week. Hopefully, this will be the smoothest release to date.

Grab the Breadcrumb NavXT SVN Trunk version to try out 3.7.0 before it is released.

-John Havlik

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Next WP Lynx Release Roadmap

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It is time to lay out the roadmap for the next WP Lynx release or two. With WordPress 3.1 looming in the near future (month or so out), and its link/quote/etc posts (Post Formats) support for that is necessary and fits perfectly into the long term goals for WP Lynx. Support for this should exist by the end of the year.

Previously, I was going to skip the 0.3, and 0.4 releases, moving to 0.5 for the next release. Instead of doing this, I will keep with the normal development schedule, 0.3 will the be the next release and will be out before the end of November. New features and fixes planned for 0.3 include:

  • URL shortener support, allow the user to set the included URL to be a shortened URL for TinyURL or other URL shortening services. This will have several tie ins, including Link Print template tags.
  • Link Print templates, these will work similar to the anchor templates in Breadcrumb NavXT and will allow the user to automate changes to the default Link Print markup.
  • Fix various bugs related to multi site support introduced with WordPress 3.0.
  • Add support for full screen editor mode. At the moment, in full screen editor mode, the icon for adding a Link Print is missing. This requires a TinyMCE plugin for adding the button to be created.

These tasks for 0.3 have been listed in order of priority, any that do not make it to 0.3 will be rolled into 0.4. Speaking of 0.4, it is planned for late December/early January. Right now, the tasks for 0.4 are as follows:

  • Tighter integration with WordPress 3.1 Post Formats.
  • Rewrite scaping code to use the WordPress HTTP API, set as default but allow users to use old calling code if they desire to.
  • Enhance the Link Print adding interface, allow user specified image cropping.

-John Havlik

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WP Lynx 0.2.1

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Available for immediate consumption, WP Lynx 0.2.1 has been released. After being notified two weeks ago of an issue with the install script, I meant to release a fix last week. Today, I realized that my initial fix did not work as expected—good thing I had not released 0.2.1 yet.

This is a very minor update, that will save new users headaches after first installing the plugin. This was verified to work as expected on WordPress 3.1-alpha. Note, there are some bugs when using WordPress in Network/Multi Site mode. I am looking into those, and will address them with another update.

-John Havlik

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WP Lynx 0.2.0

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No, this is not the massive feature improved WP Lynx 0.5.0, it is a feature adding release that improves upon the previous version. New to this version is styling within the Visual editor in WordPress. This uses the default WP Lynx style and looks much better than the pile of text and images that would show up in the editor in the past. Additional features include the ability to undo setting imports, setting resets and setting changes (inherited from Breadcrumb NavXT).

Expect the next release of WP Lynx, version 0.5.0, to become available early December. This version will feature some substantial changes and feature additions as development progresses towards version 1.0.

-John Havlik

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