It basically provides a manager and designer to change the way navbits are displayed on a page.
For example, I first realized I wanted a mod like this when I installed vbJournal just to handle my site's news. On the news page I didn't want the word "Journals" in the navbits, but it was there.
It's also useful if you have coded your own custom pages. I wrote about 15 of them, where some were TOC, or they had obvious page hierarchies, and I wanted navbits to appear on them and to keep track of this. My navbar template ended up becoming a huge mess of conditionals that eventually took weeks to debug when the navbar stopped working.
Using the interface provided in this mod is not much different than defining the navbits directly in the code (which is a simple task now that I understand how construct_navbits() works). But it sure is a lot more pleasant and MUCH less time consuming to open up a manager in the ACP than searching through the source code to modify navbits entries one by one.
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