Changelog

6.0.4

Release date: January, 26th 2018

• Behaviour change: Added auto migration of post type hierarchy settings to bcn_display*() functions.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where a PHP notice would be generated on the page for posts when the blog breadcrumb display option is set to false.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where a PHP notice would be generated on archive pages where attachments were included in the wp_query results.

6.0.3

Release date: January, 1st 2018

• Bug fix: Fixed issue where an improper breadcrumb would be generated in the trail for pages under some circumstances.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the post and page roots were not updating to track user changes in Settings > Reading.

6.0.2

Release date: December, 30th 2017

• Behaviour change: Added warning alerting that bcn_breadcrumb::type must be an array.
• Bug fix: Changed Breadcrumb Separator and Paged Template from an input field to a textbox to reduce confusion caused by HTML entities.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the parents of a page may not show up in the breadcrumb trail.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the $reverse parameter for bcn_display and bcn_display_list did not work properly.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the bcn_display_list function did not include the li elements.

6.0.1

Release date: December, 28th 2017

• Behaviour change: Removed unused Blog Template and Blog Template (Unlinked) from settings page.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where changes to the hierarchy type for any post type would not save.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the blog display setting was ignored.

6.0.0

Release date: December, 26th 2017

• Behaviour change: bcn_breadcrumb_trail::display_list() deprecated in favour of using the $template parameter in bcn_breadcrumb_trail::display().
• Behaviour change: bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_attachment() deprecated in favour of calling bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_post().
• Behaviour change: bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_front_page() deprecated in favour of calling bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_home().
• Behaviour change: bcn_li_attributes filter was deprecated in favor of bcn_display_attributes.
• Behaviour change: bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_archive_by_date() deprecated in favour of calling bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_day(),bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_month(), and/orbcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_year()`.
• Behaviour change: bcn_breadcrumb_trail::find_type() deprecated and removed from bcn_breadcrumb_trail.
• Behaviour change: Breadcrumb for 404 error pages changed to be a child of the front page.
• New feature: Added support for various HTML tags in the widget’s pretext field.
• New feature: Added bcn_default_hierarchy_display filter.
• New feature: Added bcn_default_hierarchy_type filter.
• New feature: Added $posttype_name as the third parameter to bcn_show_tax_private.
• Bug fix: Fixed UI/UX issue in the settings screen where enabling/disabling settings groups for the Home, Blog, and Mainsite breadcrumb settings did not work.
• Bug fix: Fixed UI/UX issue in the settings screen where not including the paged breadcrumb still allowed the paged breadcrumb template to be edited.
• Bug fix: Removed use of create_function in registering the widget as it was deprecated in PHP 7.2.

5.7.1

Release date: June 30th, 2017

• Bug fix: Fixed erroneous use of $linked that caused a PHP warning in bcn_display_json_ld().
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where removing a breadcrumb from the trail could cause one or more breadcrumb separators to inappropriately disappear.

5.7.0

Release date: April 21st, 2017

• New feature: Added bcn_display_json_ld() function for producing Schema.org BreadcrumbList compliant JSON-LD markup.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the uninstaller caused PHP Errors when ran from WP CLI.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where bcn_breadcrumb_trail::find_type() caused a PHP Warnings in certain circumstances.
• Bug fix: Fixed typo in the administrative interface.

5.6.0

Release date: December 23rd, 2016

• New feature: Added fourth parameter, $force, to bcn_display(), and bcn_display_list() allowing the internal caching mechanism to be bypassed.
• New feature: Moved to multiple line text boxes rather than regular single line text inputs for the breadcrumb templates in the settings page to enhance visibility.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where general searches had the blog breadcrumb in the breadcrumb trail.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the blog breadcrumb options were erroneously made available when a Posts Page was not set.

5.5.2

Release date: September 30th, 2016

• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the “blog breadcrumb” setting does not affect the inclusion of the blog breadcrumb in the breadcrumb trail.

5.5.1

Release date: August 13th, 2016

• Bug fix: Fixed issue in bcn_breadcrumb_trail::find_type() that identified pages as posts, causing the erroneous inclusion of the post root in the breadcrumb trail for pages.

5.5.0

Release date: August 12th, 2016

• Behaviour change: Internal mechanics to handle post parents as the hierarchy for a post (of any post type) has changed to use ‘BCN_POST_PARENT’ rather than ‘page’ for the taxonomy_type.
• Behaviour change: Internal mechanics to handle dates as the hierarchy for a post (of any post type) has changed to use ‘BCN_DATE’ rather than ‘date’ for the taxonomy_type.
• Behavior change: Taxonomy term hierarchy selection logic in bcn_breadcrumb_trail::pick_post_term() has changed to picking the deepest known child of the first hierarchy found in the list of terms returned by get_the_terms() rather than the first term with a child.
• New feature: Added support for referer influenced taxonomy selection for a post’s (any post type) breadcrumb trail.
• New feature: Added translate and lang as valid attributes for tags within breadcrumb templates.
• New feature: Added srcset and sizes as valid attributes for img tags within breadcrumb templates.
• New feature: Added itemprop as a valid attribute for the meta tags within breadcrumb templates.
• Bug fix: Fixed various issues caused by other plugins/themes modifying the $post global.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where WPML Extensions would cause a CPT without a set root page to use the Post post type’s root page.

5.4.0

Release date: March 15th, 2016

• Behavior change: Migrated to new adminKit version, some functions previously in the admin classes are now handled upstream.
• New feature: Added bcn_post_terms filter to bcn_breadcrumb_trail::post_terms() to control the terms included in a non-hierarchical term breadcrumb for a post.
• New feature: Added bcn_add_post_type_arg filter to bcn_breadcrumb_trail::maybe_add_post_type_arg() to control when the post_type argument is added to URLs for archives.
• New feature: Added bcn_pick_post_term filter to bcn_breadcrumb_trail::post_hierarchy() to allow overriding Breadcrumb NavXT’s default term selection behavior.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue with untranslatable title on the settings page.
• Bug fix: Cleanup of several trivial differences between bcn_admin and bcn_network_admin.
• Bug fix: Fixed improper display of “Your settings are out of date. Migrate now.” message on fresh installs.
• Bug fix: Clarified verbiage in regards to the paged breadcrumb.
• Bug fix: Added translation wrappers for date format strings in bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_archive_by_date().
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where bcn_breadcrumb_trail::is_builtin() would cause PHP warnings when the passed in post type was not an actual post type.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue that would cause a PHP error if WP_Widget is unavailable.

5.3.1

Release date: December 14th, 2015

• Bug fix: Fixed alignment issue of the main content of the settings page on WordPress 4.4.
• Bug fix: Fixed error caused by options upgrading not re-establishing new settings.
• Bug fix: Fixed PHP error caused by bcn_breadcrumb_trail::get_type_string_query_var() returning an array when the post_type query variable is an array.

5.3.0

Release date: November 12th, 2015

• Behavior change: Breadcrumb NavXT will no longer default to setting the root page for CPTs.
• Behavior change: Breadcrumb NavXT will no longer inject a breadcrumb for a CPT archive page if a root page is set for that CPT.
• Behavior change: Breadcrumb NavXT now defaults to BCN_SETTINGS_USE_LOCAL rather than BCN_SETTINGS_USE_NETWORK if all of the BCN_SETTINGS_* globals are not defined.
• Behavior change: The included widget now supports RDFA style, Schema.org BreadcrumbList format rather than the deprecated Google Breadcrumbs format.
• Behavior change: Default settings for breadcrumb templates now conform to RDFA style, Schema.org BreadcrumbList format rather than the deprecated Google Breadcrumbs format.
• New feature: Added bcn_widget_display_trail action to enhance the included widget’s extensibility.
• New feature: Added bcn_widget_display_types action to enhance the included widget’s extensibility.
• New feature: The plugin uninstaller has been re-factored, includes support for uninstalling in PHP5.2.
• New feature: Unit tests added for all non-deprecated features in bcn_breadcrumb.
• New feature: Unit tests added for the uninstaller.
• New feature: Date based hierarchies are now available for CPTs.
• New feature: Date archives restricted by CPT are now supported.
• New feature: Taxonomy archives restricted by CPT are now supported.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the multibyte supplicant functions were not always being included due to WordPress shipping with its own subset of theses functions.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where on an archive for a post type the archive breadcrumb would appear twice.

5.2.2

Release date: June 1st, 2015

• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the current item would use a built in default template rather than the breadcrumb template in the settings.
• Bug fix: Updated currently distributed translations set and list to match the current set of translations that achieve the 90% completeness threshold for inclusion.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where a PHP warning would be displayed when BCN_SETTINGS_USE_NETWORK is defined.

5.2.1

Release date: May 25th, 2015

• Bug fix: Added additional checks for empty URLs and templates within bcn_breadcrumb to prevent various bugs when empty URLs and/or templates are passed in.
• Bug fix: Move away from building URLs for search breadcrumbs and instead using get_search_link() to fix support for pretty permalinks.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where media items (attachments) that have not been attached to a post yet would cause an incorrect breadcrumb trail to be generated.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where attachments of the front page would cause PHP Warnings.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where attachments of the front page would have duplicate breadcrumbs for the home page.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where attachments of pages would have an extraneous breadcrumb relating to the page for posts.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue with the text domain/domain path in the plugin header.

5.2.0

Release date: January 9th, 2015

• Deprecated: The Max Breadcrumb Length setting has been deprecated in favor of using CSS styling to perform the length limiting.
• Behavior change: The archive page for a post type is now generated for the top ancestor post rather than for the current page when “post parent” is used as the post’s hierarchy.
• Behavior change: Now requires PHP5.3 or newer.
• New feature: Added bcn_type_archive_post_type filter.
• New feature: Settings depending on another setting to be enabled are disabled when the dependency setting is disabled.
• New feature: More descriptive messages on settings saving (notify user on success, failure, and no changes to save).
• Bug fix: Fixed awkward wording in the settings page for post hierarchy settings.
• Bug fix: Fixed missed default templates for post formats when all taxonomy settings had the tax_ prefix added in 5.1.
• Bug fix: Fixed bulk of compatibility issues with bbPress.

5.1.1

Release date: July 29th, 2014

• Bug fix: Fixed issue where attachments and their parents have the same link when ‘link current item’ is enabled.
• Bug fix: Pass the same parameters into the widget title and (pre) text filters as the default WordPress widgets.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where PHP warnings would be thrown on author pages for authors that do not have any posts.
• Bug fix: Reduced severity of $post global not being of type WP_Post, will silently exit on non-WP_DEBUG enabled sites.

5.1.0

Release date: June 9th, 2014

• Behavior change: bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_post() now expects to be passed in a valid WP_Post object.
• Behavior change: breadcrumb_navxt::version changed to a constant to allow uninstantiated access of the plugin version.
• New feature: Support Google’s RDFa Breadcrumbs microformat by default.
• New feature: Added bcn_opts_update_prebk filter.
• Bug fix: Validate HTML5 options on tab traversal.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the settings importer parsed the version string incorrectly.
• Bug fix: Added ‘typeof’ to list of valid HTML tag attributes.
• Bug fix: Prefixed all taxonomies with ‘tax_’ to prevent name collisions.
• Bug fix: Added ID to Post and Taxonomy Term Elements in bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_root() as is done everywhere else.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue with bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_author() returning the incorrect user under some circumstances.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where saving twice on a tab in the settings page would cause the next page load to open the general tab rather than the current tab.
• Bug fix: Added bcn_breadcrumb_template filter back into bcn_breadcrumb::set_template(), was a regression in 5.0 from 4.4.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the included widget did not check against default settings, causing PHP Warnings to show up on the frontend under some circumstances.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where we didn’t handle WP_POST::has_archive correctly when it was a string, causing issues with CPTs generated by some plugins.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where the default taxonomy selected for a CPT could be a non-public taxonomy.
• Bug fix: Attachments get their own title within the settings page now.
• Bug fix: Filter the title and pre text in the widget.

5.0.1

Release date: December 31st, 2013

• Behavior Change: Notify multisite users when settings may be overridden by the network settings and vice versa.
• Bug fix: Updated tab style to match WordPress 3.8 look and feel.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where bcn_breadcrumb_trail::display_list() would produce multiple instances of the class attribute.
• Bug fix: Fixed several issues with the uninstaller.

5.0.0

Release date: November 20th, 2013

• Behavior Change: Moved bcn_breadcrumb_trail::trail to bcn_breadcrumb_trail::breadcrumbs
• Behavior Change: When WordPress is in multisite/network mode, the settings set in the network settings page take priority over subsite settings.
• New feature: Added bcn_breadcrumb_trail_object filter.
• New feature: Added bcn_li_attributes filter.
• New feature: Added bcn_breadcrumb_types filter.
• New feature: Added Network Admin Settings page.
• New feature: Added xmlns:v and property to the valid tag attributes.
• Bug fix: The current_item breadcrumb for search results should result in a valid HTTPS link when appropriate.