Holy refactored bcn_breadcrumb_trail class Batman! For the first major release in four years, the focus was on improving Breadcrumb NavXT’s internal components. On the new features front, two new filters were added. Additionally, HTML tags are now available for the included widget’s pretext field. On the bug fix front, two UI/UX bugs involving settings groups were fixed in the settings page. Finally, code containing calls to functions deprecated in PHP 7.2 was reworked to remove the deprecated function calls.
One of the largest changes in this version was the way the bcn_breadcrumb_trail class works internally. For end users, the functionality should be the same. However, for developers digging into the inner workings of the plugin, things have changed. Previously, the do_* functions occasionally contained calls to functions that depended on the state of the global $wpdb variable. Much of the effort put into 6.0.0 was to change this. Now fill() handles all state determination. This is advantageous for cases that require passing in the state to the appropriate do_* function.
Hook Changes
Ignoring deprecations (more on those below), there are four filter changes in Breadcrumb NavXT 6.0. One filter gained an additional parameter, and three new filters were added. A third parameter containing the name of the post type (when applicable) was added to bcn_show_tax_private. bcn_default_hierarchy_display and bcn_default_hierarchy_type were added to facilitate overriding the default choices Breadcrumb NavXT makes for CPTs before the user has save settings. Lastly, bcn_display_attributes was added to replace bcn_li_attributes.
Deprecations
As part of a major refactoring of the bcn_breadcrumb_trail class, several functions were deprecated, and a couple were removed. Below is a summary of the changes.
Deprecated Functions:
- bcn_breadcrumb_trail::display_list()
- bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_attachment()
- bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_archive_by_date()
Deprecated and Removed Functions:
- bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_front_page()
- bcn_breadcrumb_trail::find_type()
Deprecated Filters:
- bcn_li_attributes
For more information on these deprecations, see the Changes to Note Before Upgrading to Breadcrumb NavXT 6.0 article. This article covers these changes in greater detail.
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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