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Breadcrumb NavXT 3.8.0 Preview

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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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Plugin Roadmaps for H1 2011

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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.

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Making Sense of Obfuscated Code

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It should be no surprise that some plugin authors can no be trusted. We’ve seen that with the BlogPress SEO plugin, but that one was just sloppy. Others actually try to hide what they are doing. An easy way of doing this is to use a PHP code obfuscating application. These will produce code such as:

<?php if(!function_exists("TC9A16C47DA8EEE87")){function TC9A16C47DA8EEE87(...

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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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Conditionally Remove Home from the Breadcrumb Trail

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Since Breadcrumb NavXT 3.5.0, two WordPress actions have been added into Breadcrumb NavXT. They are the bcn_before_fill and bcn_after_fill actions. As their names suggest, the first runs at the beginning of bcn_breadcrumb_trail::fill(), and the second runs at the end of the same function. Both actions pass a reference to the current bcn_breadcrumb_trail instance into the hooked function. This post quickly covers a use case for the bcn_after_fill action.

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