Navigation isn't "functionality"; it is UX. Baking breadcrumb navigation into a Theme falls on the correct side of the Theme-Plugin differentiation, AFAIK.<div><br></div><div>If you want to build in support for breadcrumb plugins, you could use function_exists() conditionals. e.g.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>if ( function_exists( 'yoast_breadcrumbs' ) {</div><div> yoast_breadcrumbs();</div><div>} else {</div>
<div> mytheme_breadcrumbs();</div><div>}</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That way, if the user enables Yoast Breadcrumbs, the Theme uses that; otherwise, it falls back to your own breadcrumb navigation.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Fenn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielx386@gmail.com">danielx386@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div>After reading this I'm starting to think that I may be heading off-track with my wordpress theme.</div>
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<div>Otto, are you saying that my breadcrum code that I put in is a doing it wrong all because I just given people no choice in what plugin they use? </div>
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<div>Would adding the option in my next version to turn it off make it a doing it right? Isn't the idea to make a wordpress theme that has some decent features without needing to use plugins? Is it not true that the more plugins that you got installed the slower wordpress will get?<br clear="all">
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards,<br><font color="#888888">Daniel Fenn<br></font></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Tony Crockford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tonyc@boldfish.co.uk" target="_blank">tonyc@boldfish.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><br><br>On 23 Jul 2011, at 21:19, Hilary J Holz <<a href="mailto:holz.hilary@gmail.com" target="_blank">holz.hilary@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>>> It's certainly<br>>> possible for a theme to implement plugin type functionality, but<br>
>> that's usually overkill for a general purpose theme.<br><br></div>I think this is an interesting point. It seems to me that there are themes and "themes" where we might need to have a new name for a theme that provides a distinct off-shoot of functionality to WordPress to make it fit a particular role.<br>
<br>Perhaps a means to bundle plugins with a theme as a *customising package* might be a better approach?<br><br>I can get behind theme as presentation layer and plugin to add function but there's clearly an overlap where a *theme* needs to add function and style/present it at the same time. I think the lack of a *plugin required* system is what leads to theme authors including plugin type function in theme templates.<br>
<br>Or I might be off the mark.<br>
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