As it is now apparent, Breadcrumb NavXT 3.1 was not released last week. Simply put, I ran out of time, fixing the paged feature was a priority for this release and it was not ready. At the moment, the paged function is fixed for paged category archives, search results, and the home page. Fixing date archives is in progress, as is for tag archives. For multi-paged posts and pages there is not simple method to fix this, and I’ll be looking into that later this week. That part may not make it into 3.1.

Currently the release time table looks like this. Tomorrow night what will be fixed for version 3.1 will be done and in the SVN trunk. Translators will be notified tomorrow night and will be given five to seven days to respond with updated translations. That places the release around Monday, the 26th.

Also, qTranslate users, as of qTranslate 2.1.4 it appears to work properly with Breadcrumb NavXT. That includes Breadcrumb NavXT options and output.

-John Havlik

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The second maintenance release of the 3.0 branch, Breadcrumb NavXT 3.0.2 brings many fixes to the table. WPMU users rejoice, most of the issues that 3.0.1 and 3.0.0 had are fixed thanks to Merci Javier who provided a WPMU testbed to help diagnose and fix the WPMU related problems. It is now safe to call Breadcrumb NavXT from within the loop. Some minor adjustments were made to the Tabular add on which makes it more WordPress 2.7 friendly. Problems with default options not being loaded on install should be fixed now.

There are now Spanish and French translations for the Breadcrumb NavXT settings page. These are included within the main distribution. Thank Karin Sequen and Laurent Grabielle for these translations. The German translation is still out of date, Tom Klingenberg does not have the time to maintain it, so if you speak German and would like to update the German translation we could use your help.

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

-John Havlik

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Late next week Breadcrumb NavXT 3.1.2 will be released. This will include new language files for Spanish and French. Hopefully the German language files will also be updated (Tom has been very busy so if someone want’s to take over the German translation feel free to).

Early next week I will take a good look into WordPress MU compatibility of the administration interface. Thanks to Merci Javier next Monday I should have access to a WPMU test site. Normally I would setup my own testbed, but with WPMU I simply can not make an internal testbed for it without some DNS trickery which I really do not want to do (I’ve already made an attempt at this without much success). By Breadcrumb NavXT 3.1.2 the administrative interface will work correctly with WordPress MU.

Additionally, qTranslate users, this weekend a patch for qTranslate will be available that makes it compatible with Breadcrumb NavXT. Currently, it does not support the get_category filter, which is needed for it to work its magic on the category breadcrumbs.

-John Havlik

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Beginning with version 3.1.0 Breadcrumb NavXT will probably retain a WordPress 2.7 and newer compatibility mode (rather than the current WordPress 2.5+ compatibility mode that is in place right now). This is due to some API changes that are being phased in with 2.7. 3.0.x will work perfectly fine with WordPress 2.7, but with WordPress 2.8 the administration interface may break (option saving/setting wise).

For my other plugins, both Mtekk’s Testimonials and Iframe-b-Gone are not fully compatible with WordPress 2.7. Mtekk’s Testimonials does work, but needs some tweaks. Iframe-b-Gone is more or less obsolete, and I really do not plan on continued maintenance of it. Comment Code Filter is 100% WordPress 2.7 compatible. Moo.wp and RPC Utilities are both very old and I doubt either still work. Moo.wp is no longer needed thanks to the script enquery tools in the WordPress API. RPC Utilities stopped working at around WordPress 2.3 or 2.5. I plan on eventually revisiting it, though that will be after Mtekk’s Testimonials gets updated.

-John Havlik

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