My very popular Simple Social Bookmarks plugin has been updated!

Changes include…

• Corrected ampersand in AddToAny URL to ensure code is XHTML valid
• If no short URL is specified the WordPress shortlink will be used
• Ability to specify own titles as well as URL
• Added a shortcode option

Full details, as well as download options are on the plugin page.

WP README Parser version 1.1 has been released with the following changes…

• Improved code display – particularly code multi-lines
• Fixed a file fetching bug
• Added a new option to suppress specific lines of output

Full details, including a download link, are available on the plugin page.

Today I’ve launched a new WordPress plugin – WP Relative Date.

This provides a much needed improvements to WordPress’ ability to display relative dates (e.g. “This post was added 4 days ago.”) A simple change to your theme code and you can benefit from improved levels of reporting (WordPress, for instance, only shows a maximum of months, hence a post that is a number of years old will display as a large number of months instead).

I wrote this as part of the recent site re-vamp and initially included the functionality within my functions.php file. In the end I converted it to a separate plugin, however, and updated it to be of release quality.

More details and download instructions are on the plugin’s dedicated page.