Dell TB16 vs TB15

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A year and a few months ago, I picked up a Dell TB15 to use with my new XPS 15 9550. Since then, the TB15 was discontinued due to hardware issues. Last December, the WD15 as the only available replacement, even though its link was USB C, not Thunderbolt 3 like the TB15. However, Dell has since released the TB16, which officially replaces the TB15.

Since January, Dell has replacing existing TB15 units with TB16 for customers who open a support ticket requesting an exchange. Additionally, it appears that Dell is, as of late April, proactively sending out TB16 units to those who purchased a TB15 unit from Dell.com—this is how I ended up with a TB16. In addition to the TB16, Dell includes a letter explaining the exchange process and a shipping label for returning the old TB15.

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Garmin Forerunner 230

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After a decade of faithful service, it was time to retire my old Forerunner 305. While the electronics still work, the silicone watch band failed back in December. Due to poor running weather and an injury, I put off replacing it until recently.

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Making Sense of the *title Breadcrumb Template Tags

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Currently, there are several, closely related template tags that each exhibit slightly different behaviors. These are: %title%, %htitle%, %ftitle%, and %fhtitle%. As their names suggest, they will be replaced with the resource’s title. However, how this title is processed differs between the tags.

Note that the “Max Title Length” setting is deprecated. Hence, both %ftitle% and %fhtitle% are deprecated and not recommended for use. They are included in this discussion for the sake of completeness.

Below is a table outlining the behavior of these tags for the same title with the max length set to ~10 characters and with the max length setting disabled.

Template Tag Max Title Length1 Title Result
%title% 10 Hello <em>World</em> Leaders Hello <em…
%htitle% 10 Hello <em>World</em> Leaders Hello <em…
%ftitle% 10 Hello <em>World</em> Leaders Hello World Leaders
%fhtitle% 10 Hello <em>World</em> Leaders Hello <em>World</em> Leaders
%title% Disabled Hello <em>World</em> Leaders Hello World Leaders
%htitle% Disabled Hello <em>World</em> Leaders Hello <em>World</em> Leaders

%title% and %htitle%

Notice that the resulting strings for the standard %title% tag and the %ftitle% tag do not contain HTML tags. Thus, they are safe for use within HTML tag attributes (e.g. the title attribute). To maintain HTML tags present in the resource’s title, use the %htitle% tag.

%ftitle% and %fhtitle%

Note that the Max Title Length setting does not affect the resulting string for the %ftitle% and %fhtitle% template tags. In fact, by design, they are the same as %title% and %htitle% when “Max Title Length” is disabled. However, note that since the Max Title Length setting is deprecated, these template tags are as well.

Lastly, note that when using the Max Title Length setting, HTML tags may be left open or even incomplete. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that CSS is used to trim the breadcrumb title length rather than the deprecated Max Title Length setting. An additional benefit to using CSS is it does not mess with the actual content of the breadcrumb trail, allowing search engines to pick up on the full titles rather than the trimmed ones.

-John Havlik

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  1. Note that use of the Max title Length setting has been deprecated in favor of using CSS to trim Breadcrumb titles lengths. ↩

Breadcrumb NavXT Menu Magic 1.1.5

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Announcing the immediate availability of Breadcrumb NavXT Menu Magic 1.1.5. This version fixes a bug relating to Breadcrumb NavXT Menu Magic’s handling of CPT root pages.

Previously, if a CPT root page was located in a menu, the menu hierarchy would only be followed when on said CPT root page, or if said root page had a parent page that is not the front page. This normally manifested itself when on a single post instance of a CPT, the menu hierarchy containing the CPT root page would not be followed. With version 1.1.5, Breadcrumb NavXT Menu Magic will always follow the menu hierarchy that a CPT root page is in.

Users with valid and activated license keys should receive an update notification within the WordPress dashboard and be able to use the update mechanism to update (just like with any plugin in the WordPress.org repository).

-John Havlik

Breadcrumb NavXT BuddyPress Extensions 1.0.2

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Announcing the immediate availability of Breadcrumb NavXT BuddyPress Extensions 1.0.2. This version fixes two bugs present in the previous version of Breadcrumb NavXT BuddyPress Extensions.

The first issue fixed was the PHP errors that appeared due to a change in made in Breadcrumb NavXT 5.7.0. Additionally, the cause of PHP errors on group creation pages on the front end has been fixed.

As for the version number, yes, this did move from 0.1.1 to 1.0.2. Rather than maintain sub 1.x version numbers, I am standardizing on 1.0 as the first public release of my extension plugins.

-John Havlik

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