Posted 1 year ago #
I am using Justin Tadlock's Breadcrumb Trail plugin, works great.
I just added the Hybrid v0.9 theme, and upon activation of Hybrid, I get:
Cannot redeclare breadcrumb_trail() (previously declared)
The Breadcrumb Trail plugin and the Hybrid library folder both include breadcrumb-trail.php.
I want to experiment with Hybrid, but I don't want to have to disable a plugin (Breadcrumb Trail) every time I go to use it. Any suggestions?
Thanks. --Bill
Posted 1 year ago #
One solution that appears to resolve this conflict:
In Plugin:
1. Search-Replace all references to 'breadcrumb_trail', replace with 'breadcrumb_trail_plugin'. So now, calling breadcrumb_trail in a theme means using 'breadcrumb_trail_plugin', rather than 'breadcrumb_trail'
2. change the filename breadcrumb_trail.php to breadcrumb_trail_plugin.php (so that now, there is not the conflict, since Hybrid's library is using its breadcrumb_trail.php, while the Plugin uses its own breadcrumb_trail_plugin.php)
In any Theme (other than Hybrid, of course) file using breadcrumb_trail:
3. change all references to breadcrumb_trail to 'breadcrumb_trail_plugin', to refer to renamed function in renamed breadcrumb_trail_plugin.php
That seems to work so far. Not too inconvenient, and it allows me to bounce between Hybrid and other themes without locking up WP.
(Further thought: if the Plugin is updated, then the search-replace will likely have to be performed on the update so that it changed to 'breadcrumb_trail_plugin')
--Bill
Posted 1 year ago #
Solution #2 (which I think might be preferable)-
Stop using breadcrumb-trail as a plugin,
instead add it directly via functions.php
I placed breadcrumb-trail.php in folder library> extensions> breadcrumb-trail.php (same structure as Hybrid).
In functions.php, I included the file following Pearsonified article about using functions.php http://www.pearsonified.com/2008/05/how-to-use-wordpress-functions.php
include_once (TEMPLATEPATH . '/library/extensions/breadcrumb-trail.php');
And now I can invoke breadcrumb-trail in my theme as usual.
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Advantage: no conflict between Plugin and activating Hybrid (since there is no longer a plugin, but rather each theme containing its own breadcrumb file)
Disadvantage: The only thing I can think of is that there is not a notification of update (to a plugin), and so one might want to periodically see if a newer version of breadcrumb-trail exists.
--Bill
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