John Havlik

After reloading the page is it still visible? The cause is the change is what is saved into the settings database. In the past settings ended up just accumulating (Breadcrumb NavXT would try to clean up things it knew about, but things like post types disappearing wasn’t handled well). Now, since only non-default values are stored in the database, when merging in the database values with the defaults, if there are extras, a message is presented to the user in the settings page.

Specific to these settings being mentioned in your message, these messages should go away after refreshing the page (a page refresh after the settings migration is complete). These specific settings changed (from the string type to the enum type), and I’d only expect these to maybe show up only immediately after a setting migration (though the original cause of that behavior should have been fixed). Please let me know if this is showing up after you reload the page (would indicate the settings migration didn’t run properly on your site).

Typically, if you want to add a category to a page, you really should be using a custom post type. If you use a hierarchical custom post type, you can have Breadcrumb NavXT use post parents as the first hierarchy and then a taxonomy as a secondary hierarchy (fulfilling what you want out of the breadcrumb trail). As for making the permalinks the way you want, my guess is it’s probably possible (especially is you use a custom post type and custom taxonomy). That said, it has been quite a while since I’ve dived deeply into permalinks and custom rewrite rules so I don’t have an example off hand to point you to.

It depends on what exactly you mean by hide breadcrumbs. If you are talking about removing a breadcrumb from the breadcrumb trail, you can do that using the bcn_after_fill action similar to the method discussed in this article: https://mtekk.us/archives/guides/conditionally-remove-home/
If you are talking about just hiding the a breadcrumb from view, but keeping the markup of it, you can use CSS (something like setting display:done; and targeting the specific breadcrumb is possible).

There are no known issues with Breadcrumb NavXT working on WordPress Network site/Multisite setups. Could you provide more details as to the issue you are seeing?

Breadcrumb NavXT doesn’t use the permalink hierarchy for generating breadcrumb trails. Instead, it uses the actual organization of the content within WordPress to generate the breadcrumb trail. If you want “News and Insights” into your breadcrumb trail for “Post Name” you need to have the “News and Insights” resource as some sort of parent for the post. Now, how you do that depends on how you are using posts. If they are just under “News and Insights”, you should have your “Posts page” under the WordPress Settings > Reading area set to “News and Insights” (and then everything is automatically done for you, no need to have it manually added to your permalink structure).

Assuming that you want Breadcrumb NavXT to only use the regular categories for the custom post type, under the Breadcrumb NavXT settings page, go to the Post Types tab, and look for the custom post type. In that section, find the Hierarchy setting, and select “Categories”, then press the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page. Now, Breadcrumb NavXT should use the category instead of the custom taxonomy for your custom post type. If “Categories” does not show up, you will need to make sure your custom post type is setup with the category taxonomy as a valid taxonomy for it.

To follow up on this, the offending string will not exist in 7.0.0, so it will be fixed going forward.