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Breadcrumb NavXT Line 53 Error

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If you are receiving an error similar to the following while activating Breadcrumb NavXT, please continue reading.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /wp-content/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/breadcrumb_navxt_admin.php on line 53

This should be only caused by PHP4. The line of code PHP is failing on is protected $version = '3.5.1';. Specifically, it is the protected part that PHP4 does not know about, and subsequently chokes on. Some users have claimed to receive this in a PHP5 environment. If you receive this error, please insert

<?php
if (current_user_can('administrator')){
    phpinfo();
}
?>

somewhere in your footer. Then, open up a page on your site and look in the output from phpinfo for your PHP version. If the version is not PHP5.2 or newer, please inquire with your webhost on how to migrate to a modern PHP installation. If the output states you have a version of PHP that is 5.2 or newer, please copy the output and e-mail it to me (full output). Feel free to provide an abridged output in the comments section of this page.

-John Havlik

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WP Lynx 0.1.3

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This is a minor improvement to the previous release of WP Lynx. It fixes a few issues reported by users. These include fixing an issue involving non UTF-8 encoded sites, and a fix for users on hosts with php safemode enabled. Finally, error reporting is improved slightly. As always, if you thing you found a bug please report it.

The next planned release, 0.2.0, will have some cool new features. Additionally, the settings page will be reorganized a little to make it easier to use. More on this as development progresses.

-John Havlik

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Breadcrumb NavXT Custom Post Type Support

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As part of my goals last week, I was working heavily on Breadcrumb NavXT’s custom post type support (after I finished up replacing my desktop’s motherboard with a more stable one). This work is ready for testing. So far, it has passed my development test cases and is ready for end user testing.

The implementation in the SVN trunk has one flaw. It doesn’t handle the “hierarchy flip” situation, where a post hierarchy can terminate with a post that is flat (e.g. it uses taxonomies to be located, not a post hierarchy). One standard example of this “hierarchy flip” is attachments to posts. They are hierarchical, but the parent post is not. Currently, this is handled using an “exception” for attachments. A proper solution would check and continue until it gets to the very top. However, this would impact performance, and is unnecessary for most sites (I need feedback on this, if it is an issue, I will provide support).

It looks like the 3.6 release will be moved up to late July, from August. I plan on having it ready for the translation team by July 14th. It looks like I’ll punt the multisite support extensions to the 3.7 release this fall.

-John Havlik

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Breadcrumb NavXT and Custom Post Types

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As of a few minutes ago, Breadcrumb NavXT has preliminary support of custom post types. Note that this support is very basic. It essentially sees hierarchical custom posts and pages as the same thing, and all other post types as posts. This will be refined further in the coming weeks, where each post type will have it’s own options, a la taxonomies.

-John Havlik

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WP Lynx Preview

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Ok, so I let the cat out of the bag yesterday (ha ha). Back on topic, WP Lynx is a project that I have been working on for a few months now, with the help of JD Hodges. It was his idea originally, and he came to me for to create the plugin (and thanks to him it’s now available to everyone).

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