Sods law said it had to happy. I upgraded my blog to the rather more bleeding-edge 3.1 RC1 and they release an essential security fix in the guise of 3.0.4. Oh.

Anyway, ignoring my own predicament, this is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in the HTML sanitation library, called KSES. WordPress rate this release as “critical.”

The official WordPress announcement

Change Details

A list of the modified files (between WordPress 3.0.3 and 3.0.4)

Download 3.0.4 (entire installation)

Download 3.0.4 (just the changed files between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4)

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…

Apologies, been a bit delayed on this one. No sooner had we been hit with WordPress 3.0.2, but the next version is released. Again, this is for a security fix.