Breadcrumb NavXT has maintained PHP5.2 compatibility ever since WordPress dropped PHP4 support about four years ago. However, the time has come to move past PHP5.2 and on to newer versions of the language.
Due to new features in the upgraded adminKit library, Breadcrumb NavXT 5.2 requires language features that are not available in PHP5.2. To complicate matters further, PHP5.2 is no longer available in the package manager for the Linux distribution I run on my testbed server. Thus, even if I wanted to maintain PHP5.2 compatibility, I have no easy means to test for it.
Lastly, PHP5.2 is no longer maintained by the PHP authors (PHP5.3 has the same issue). Therefore, Breadcrumb NavXT 5.2 requires PHP5.3 or newer and it is very likely that Breadcrumb NavXT 5.3 will require PHP5.4.
-John Havlik
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Sooooooo, what do we do? For now I just deactivated Breadcrumb…but I am such a novice…I have no idea what to do to get PHP 5.3 or newer. HELP!
The best solution is to contact your webhost and ask them if they provide PHP versions newer than PHP5.2. If they do provide newer versions of PHP, ask to have your account moved to a newer version of PHP (I recommend PHP5.5).
Otherwise, Breadcrumb NavXT 5.1.1 (the last version compatible with PHP5.2) is still available here: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/breadcrumb-navxt.5.1.1.zip
-John Havlik