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.

Well, it took longer than I expected, but I’ve released version 3 of Simple Social Bookmarks. With over 200 social bookmarking sites to choose from and brand new animation options, it’s looking good!

You can read more here or over on the WordPress plugin site.

If you wish to try it out now, simply move to the bottom of this post to find my own site use of them – it uses a simple movement option as you hover over each.

The final tally of bookmarking sites is 218 with 23 tools to add as well. Originally, sharing was to be performed by AddThis and Shareaholic. However, when the plugin changes were nearly complete, I came across APIs from AddToAny and ShareThis. Unfortunately, I had problems with the ShareThis API, and they didn’t respond to requests from their technical support email address, so I dropped them at the last minute.

This didn’t reduce the number of bookmarking sites down, though, as they only had a handful that the others didn’t already cover – instead I found the manual link for these and added them in.

Here are the default icons for all 241 sites…

The hardest (or, rather, most time consuming) bit  of my changes to Simple Social Bookmarks is hunting down all the icons for the various social bookmarking services. Especially as, since my last post, I’ve vastly increased the number I’ll be using. Anyway, it’s now done – one for all 186 bookmarking services and 19 tools!

Thanks to Smush.it, nearly 23% has been trimmed from the images too.