Breadcrumb NavXT

Changelog

7.2.0

Release date: February, 9th 2023
* Behavior change: Settings reset sets option entry to blank array, consistent with the change to only storing non-default values in the database.
* New feature: Added bcn_display_separator filter.
* New feature: Add per setting indication if Network wide settings are overriding the local setting.
* Bug fix: Improved compatibility with PHP8.1.
* Bug fix: Fixed PHP errors caused by unexpected entries in WP Post Types array.
* Bug fix: Settings help menu now shows up in the network settings page.
* Bug fix: Fixed cause of “file not found” error on the import/export/reset form in the network settings page.

7.1.0

Release date: July, 17th 2022

• Behavior change: BCN_SETTINGS_FAVOR_* constant behavior changed to take advantage of settings changes in 7.0.
• Behavior change: Settings page now warns if it detected CPTs that were added too late.
• New feature: Added bcn_before_loop filter which runs at the top of bcn_breadcrumb_trail::display_loop().
• New feature: Added JSON formatted settings import and export (successor to the old XML settings import/export format).
• Bug fix: Fixed PHP error caused by term archives that don’t know the active term.
• Bug fix: Fixed PHP error caused by introduction of namespacing in the legacy XML settings importer and exporter.
• Bug fix: Explicitly set option autoload values, avoiding inappropriate default autoload values being used.

7.0.2

Release date: January, 4th 2022

• Behavior change: Allow value of Hhome_template, Hhome_template_unlinked, hseparator, and hseparator_higher_dim to be overridden via bcn_settings_init.
• Bug fix: Fixed cause of “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.” message when attempting to visit the settings page.

7.0.1

Release date: December, 27th 2021

• Behavior change: Moved bcn_settings_init filter to before establishing default setting values. This filter is no longer capable of changing the default values of settings.
• Behavior change: Moved setup of defaults to 9000 priority, intending to cover the majority of plugins that add CPTs.
• Bug fix: Fixed compatibility issues with PHP5.6.
• Bug fix: Fixed PHP error caused by some return value of page_ settings.
• Bug fix: Fixed PHP error caused by non settings settings in array passed into adminKit::settings_to_opts.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue with bcn_allowed_html not covering admin interface elements (mapped bcn_allowed_html to mtekk_adminkit_allowed_html).

7.0.0

Release date: December, 17th 2021

• Behavior change: Within the bcn_breadcrumb_trail object instead of passing term id and taxonomy, a WP_Term object is passed instead.
• Behavior change: Attachments now use parent post type for post type argument.
• New feature: Moved to adminKit 3.0
• New feature: Core bcn_breadcrumb_trail object now supports multi dimensional trails.
• New feature: Added bcn_opts_update_to_save filter.
• Bug fix: Fixed parameter order issue in REST controller that resulted in PHP Deprecated message in PHP8.
• Bug fix: Updated REST controller endpoint registration for better WordPress 5.5+ compatibility.
• Bug fix: Fixed compatibility issue with Widget settings not saving properly in WordPress 5.8.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue with the position count parameter within bcn_display when outputting a trail in reverse order.

6.6.0

Release date: October, 31st 2020

• Behavior change: Moved to using the post type of the parent post for the type archive rather than that of the current item.
• Bug fix: Fixed error thrown when a site does not have an administrator role.

6.5.0

Release date: June, 12th 2020

• Behavior change: Moved to using the taxonomy of the term rather than passed in taxonomy in various functions. As a consequence, this allows bcn_pick_post_term to override the taxonomy selection.
• Behavior change: Default template for unlinked breadcrumbs now includes breadcrumbList markup.
• New feature: Added new filter bcn_breadcrumb_linked.
• New feature: Introduced new WordPress capability: bnc_manage_options.
• Bug fix: Fixed XML settings exporter so that it no longer creates malformed files that cannot be imported when settings contain special HTML entities.

6.4.0

Release date: December, 31st 2019

• Behavior change: Attachment post type settings moved to Media, additional post type options made available.
• Behavior change: Privately published parent posts are now, by default, skipped over in breadcrumb trails.
• Behavior change: On single post breadcrumb trails, the hierarchical term code path is now used in cases where only a single term from a non-hierarchical taxonomy is present for the current post.
• New feature: Allow %link% tag in unlinked breadcrumb templates.
• New feature: Added bcn_show_post_private filter.
• New feature: Added bcn_show_type_term_archive filter.

6.3.0

Release date: May, 3rd 2019

• New feature: Added Gutenberg block for displaying breadcrumb trails.
• New feature: Added bcn_display_attribute_array filter.
• New feature: Added bcn-aria-current template tag to facilitate WAI-ARIA Breadcrumb support.
• Bug Fix: Updated settings page to follow WP core standards for header structure.
• Bug Fix: Updated checkbox in adminKit to eliminate multiple labels to follow WCAG 2.0.
• Bug Fix: Fixed PHP error in circumstances of bcn_breadcrumb_trail::fill() falling back on treating an unknown item as a taxonomy.

6.2.1

Release date: October, 26th 2018

• Behaviour change: Added span element wrapping the breadcrumb title in the default unlinked breadcrumb template.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue that caused PHP warnings and “the following settings were not saved” messages for hierarchical CPTs.

6.2.0

Release date: September, 24th 2018

• Behaviour change: Cleaned up translations for default templates, simplifying and clarifying the translatable content.
• Behaviour change: Default unlinked breadcrumb templates no longer contain Schema.org BreadcrumbList markup.
• Behaviour change: Breadcrumb NavXT REST API endpoints are no longer enabled by default.
• New feature: Added bcn_register_rest_endpoint filter.
• New feature: Added bcn_breadcrumb_assembled_json_ld_array filter.
• New feature: Added support for following the post parent hierarchy first then falling back to a secondary hierarchy.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where on loading the settings page immediately after migrating settings causes PHP warnings on CPT and custom taxonomy settings.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue that caused the settings reset option under the help drop down to not work.

6.1.0

Release date: June, 1st 2018

• Behaviour change: Links to generate support requests migrated to the WordPress.org forums.
• New feature: Added support for Schema.org BreadcrumbList (microdata format) in the included widget.
• New feature: Added new Root Page support for author archives.
• New feature: Added REST API endpoint for posts, terms, and author archives.
• Bug fix: Corrected label for the Schema.org BreadcrumbList (RDFa format) option in the included widget.
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where a PHP warning would be thrown due to get_term() returning something other than an instance of WP_Term.

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.