Breadcrumb NavXT and Custom Post Types

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

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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Canon S90

S90's image is on the left, the SD850's is to the right

After several years of trusty service (the first few months were a battle, but that’s besides the point), I’m replacing my PowerShot SD850 IS with something a little more advanced. Since I’m not ready to take the plunge into the world of DSLR, and didn’t want something terribly large, the S90 fit the bill. Simply put, there are too many things to love about the S90. It’s small (though slightly larger than the SD850), has a fast lens, has a large (for a ‘point and shoot’) sensor, and has a control right around the lens.

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(Web) Standards: Apple is Doing it Wrong

Standards are not about vendor lock in (or in the case of Apple, vendor lock out), they are about interoperability. Apple’s recent HTML5 showcase, more appropriately named Safari Showcase, reveals Apple does not understand standards. Locking out browsers, as Apple does in their showcase, is not a best practice or in any W3C specification. Apple’s quest against Adobe and flash is not noble—don’t get me wrong, I hate flash. They are not embracing standards, they are embracing something they can control.

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Breadcrumb NavXT 3.5.1

This is the first bug fix release for the 3.5 branch of Breadcrumb NavXT. Several bugs related to the settings page have been fixed. These include fixing the wiping of settings on activation, XML settings file import issue, and the issues with saving the archive by date and custom taxonomy settings. Finally, the maintainers of the German and French translations have submitted updated translations. If you experience any issues with Breadcrumb NavXT 3.5.1, please leave a comment to this post describing your issue.

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

-John Havlik

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