Holy custom taxonomies batman! With Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0 support for taxonomies was rewritten for support of WordPress’ custom taxonomies for taxonomy archives and posts. Additionally, dates may be used as the taxonomy in the breadcrumb trail for posts now. Finally, translations in Italian are now available thanks to Luca Camellini.
You can grab the latest version of Breadcrumb NavXT from the Breadcrumb NavXT page.
-John Havlik
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Ok, so it has been a few weeks since the last post, and even longer since Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0 was supposed to be released. That said, last Saturday the translators were notified that the SVN trunk was ready for translation updates. At the moment, all but two of the translations are ready to go. Once those are updated, Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0 will be released.
Other than the release of Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0, one will more or less not exist until the 23rd (final exams). So, don’t fret if response times to questions extend past the normal sub 24 hour range.
-John Havlik
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Update: This was modified on February 10, 2015 to reflect changes in suggested calling code for Breadcrumb NavXT. Note that the Breadcrumb NavXT Multidimension Extensions plugin handles the PHP side of things covered in the guide below.
Update: This was modified on January 11, 2011 to reflect changes in the code base of Breadcrumb NavXT. Note that this should now work for all newer versions of Breadcrumb NavXT (3.6.0 up to 4.0). It will not work for the proposed Breadcrumb NavXT 4.0.
Previously, one revealed how to apply Janko’s Apple.com-like breadcrumb trail tutorial to WordPress using Breadcrumb NavXT. After several requests for a breadcrumb trail a la the one found in Explorer since Windows Vista, this guide was created. While this guide will not provide a method to exactly recreate the Vista breadcrumbs, it will be in the same spirit. The Apple.com breadcrumb trail style will be extended; a simple replacement of images and minor CSS tweaking will result something behaving very similar to the vista breadcrumb trail.
Since Windows XP, Microsoft has provided a generic driver for the Logitech WingMan RumblePad. This eliminated the need to install Logitech’s software to use the gamepad. Generally, one looks favorably upon such things. However, this driver has always lacked support for force feedback. While the WingMan may be a DirectInput force feedback device in a world moving towards the XInput force feedback model, many games still use DirectInput force feedback.
While Logitech does not provide a standalone driver for the WingMan, it does include a DirectInput force feedback driver for the WingMan in its Logitech Gaming Software. To download LGS, go to Logitech’s website and click support. In the search form enter “G-UA4” (the model number for the closest device to the WingMan RumblePad). Under the downloads tab, select Windows Vista as your OS, then select Logitech Gaming Software from the download dropdown. Install Logitech Gaming Software and your WingMan should now have working force feedback.
-John Havlik
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After numerous delays, development on Breadcrumb NavXT 3.4.0 has resumed. Currently, the status of hierarchical custom taxonomy support is being evaluated. Single level custom taxonomies appear to work correctly, minus a few things pertaining to Breadcrumb NavXT settings (e.g. it will still say “Archive by Tag:” on custom taxonomy archive pages). After that, for the 3.4.0 release, all that remains will be to do some reworking of the administrative interface to handle the new taxonomy structure. Do note that while hierarchical custom taxonomies are some what broken (in WordPress) at the moment, since the API is already there, when they do get fixed Breadcrumb NavXT will be ready to take full advantage of them.
Also, due to the change in how taxonomies are handled internally by Breadcrumb NavXT in version 3.4.0, versions of WordPress prior to 2.8 may generate errors. One is not checking for WordPress compatibility prior to 2.8.x.
By Monday, November 16th, the translation team will be notified that the SVN trunk version of Breadcrumb NavXT will be ready for translation updates. This places the release date for 3.4.0 on November 20th at the earliest, and November 23rd being the likely release date. The forecast for 3.5.0 places the release near the end of January, 2010.
-John Havlik
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