Today I have updated Simple Facebook Link and Simple Social Bookmarks.

In both cases, I have added the ability to pass an API key, user name or password to the URL shortening service.

Simple Social Bookmarks also has new default options and user specific icons are now stored in the theme folder, rather than the plugin folder¹. If you have used either of these options, please review the instructions for potential changes that you’ll need to make.

1. this is because automatic plugin updates were removing these folders [↩]

…a few weeks ago. What can I say? I’ve been busy!

Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2. As always, you can visit the Tools->Upgrade menu to upgrade.

And here are the links…

The official WordPress announcement

Change Details

A list of the modified files (between WordPress 2.9.1 and 2.9.2)

Download 2.9.2 (entire installation)

Download 2.9.2 (just the changed files between 2.9.1 and 2.9.2)

Today is WordPress Plugin Developer Day.

The idea is to give back to those who provide useful, free plugins for WordPress.

What they’re asking is that anyone that has ever gotten even the slightest benefit from a WordPress plugin to say thank you today by making a small donation to the plugin/developer of your choice.

Yes, I’m one of those people, but this blog is also enhanced thanks to the plugins for others so I’ll be donating as well.

Hopefully this will make you feel as good as it does me – they deserve our gratitude.

I recently thought it would be a good idea to display on my blog a list of draft posts – a kind of “coming soon”. A plugin to do this exists but it hasn’t been updated for years and lacked some of the features that I was after (and, from the comments left on the authors website, features that others wanted as well).

I’ve therefore created my own plugin to do all this and more. Simple Draft List allows you to display a list of draft post/page titles – you can specify the type (post and/or page), the sequence and maximum number to list. You can also specify individual post/pages to omit by the simple use of a character in the title.

Full details are on the official WordPress page or on the page on this site.

I’ve released a new plugin, and updated an existing one.

The new plugin is Simple Buzz Link – this creates a URL for any post/page, allowing you to share it on the newly released Google Buzz.

Get it from the official WordPress page or read more on this site.

I’ve also updated Simple Social Bookmarks, adding Google Buzz, Yahoo! Buzz  and Yahoo! Bookmarks to the list of social bookmarking sites.

Again, get it from the WordPress page or read more on this site.