Breadcrumb NavXT November Update

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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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WordPress 2.7+ Compatibility

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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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Daylight Savings Time Ending

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Vista now warns you when Daylight Savings time is going to end.

Vista’s little time clock/calender is much better than the one in XP. Not only does it make checking dates easier, it also warns of impending doom (err. Daylight Savings Time starting/ending).

So it’s that time of year when signing up for spring semester classes begin. Once in upper division once every two semesters a one year plan must be filled out and a meeting with an adviser must occur prior to singing up for classes. Today, I was assigned my advisement date and time, and I went to check what day of the week it would be–they only gave a date and something about it seemed wrong (turns out they sent the wrong time and date). Upon clicking on the taskbar clock, I was greeted by a message warning that Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday, November 2nd. This was a surprise as XP did not even warn when it would work its DST magic–Windows 98 would warn after it automatically changed the clock.

-John Havlik

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Introducting Comment Code Filter

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Comment Code Filter is a new WordPress 2.5+ plugin that cleans up anything placed between <code> and </code> in comments. It only runs on comment submission, and automatically converts things like < to &lt;. This blog now employees this plugin to make placing code in comments much easier for myself and the readers of this blog.

-John Havlik

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Breadcrumb NavXT 3.0.1

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This is the first maintained release for the Breadcrumb NavXT 3.0 branch. UTF-8 support has been improved for users of the administrative interface. Previously, UTF-8 characters saved in any of the fields of the administrative interface did not save correctly, this has been resolved. A bug related to attachments to pages was fixed, as well as a fix for the installation script of the administrative interface. Users that previously had issues with the administrative interface not containing default settings should remove the bcn_options entry in WordPress’ options table before activating this version. Finally, the behavior of the plugin was modified for users of static front pages that do not specify a Posts Page (under Settings > Reading). The new behavior is to drop the blog breadcrumb if Posts Page is not set, while before it was assumed Posts Page was set.

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

-John Havlik

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