The Simple Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress has been updated to version 1.8.

Yesterday, Google announced an official way to share URLs on their Buzz service, rather than the unofficial “fudge” of using Google Reader. Simple Social Bookmarks has therefore been upgraded to use their new method.

No other changes, so you only need to upgrade is you use Google Buzz as one of your displayed services.

For those sharp enough to have viewed the site over the last 20 minutes, or subscribe to my feed, you might have seen a number of test posts.

You see, I posted earlier today and the resultant feed had the social links missing from the end. Not only that, but any of the feeds that contain that post no longer display in Firefox. Weird. Look at the source behind it, though, and it looks fine.

My assumption is that it’s the Simple Social Bookmarks plugin, which changed around the time this still worked. So I installed the previous version and it started working again.

So, I did some tinkering and it still didn’t work. Now, I have the previous version back installed and it still doesn’t work. No matter what I do, I can’t get the chuffing bookmarks to appear in my feed. Grrrr.

Expect more test posts. And banging of head against wall.

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 [↩]