For those of you who use Shareaholic for WordPress may have been wondering… No we did not find the edge of the earth and proceed to jump off. Even though it may have seemed that way with how quiet it has been around here as of late. However, we’ve been here all along. Quietly wrapping up your new birthday present.

What’s that you say? You don’t have a birthday anytime soon? Not to worry, consider it an early Christmas present. Oh no, you don’t celebrate Christmas either? How about Hanukkah? Ok, well just pick your nearest “gift giving” holiday, and that’s what we were wrapping you a gift for… Capisce?

Next on the agenda…

I think it would be safe to say, that if I had a nickle for every time someone asked me how they can implement our WordPress plugin into a “static html” website… I’d be a fairly rich man. However, since I am not a fairly rich man, I guess that means I didn’t get a nickle each time someone asked me that question. Booooo! Ah, sorry… Drifting off-topic again. Anyway, the point is… We’ve been listening, and now we doesn’t have to be limited to the confines of WordPress.

However, this is just the first stepping stone on the path to World Domination Universal Platform Support. We figured there would be no better way to test out our evil er.. exciting new plans, than to take advantage of the enormous user-base we’ve already established in the WordPress world… So consider yourself enslaved er.. cordially invited to the beta testing of the greatest Shareaholic for WordPress yet.

What you need to know…

Although we’ve pushed this release out to the public as a stable upgrade, you DO NOT have to use the “BETA” version if you do not wish to. You’ll notice in the plugin options page that there is now a nifty little box which allows you to select which version you’d like to use: new or old. If you don’t like the new version, or, if it happens to eat your website for brunch (highly unlikely) then you can simply choose to use the “old” version instead.

Also, it does us no good to release a BETA version for you to download and test if you don’t give us some feedback! So, we’ve added a link in the plugin options page which will lead you directly to the feedback form so that you can let us know what you think. Please tell us if you have any problems, or if the plugin kills your website and eats it for brunch. (again, extremely unlikely)

After we gather enough data from this BETA release, we will begin working on a complete change over to use this method/version from now on. (provided nobody’s website got eaten for brunch) At which time, we will then begin to work on taking what we’ve learned from this and applying it to a real-world universal version of Shareaholic for WordPress which would be able to be used on ANY website on ANY server!

Don’t forget: Without your feedback, this BETA release is useless!

Ruh Roh…

Please submit any issues here: Shareaholic Support Pages.

Thanks!

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http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sexybookmarks.3.2.4.2.zip

This blog post was originally posted on the SexyBookmarks’ blog. Shareaholic has since taken over the responsibility for the continued development and improvement of SexyBookmark publisher plugins!

It seems that I’ve been completely inundated with requests for the addition of a “Google Buzz” icon to the list of supported networks in the plugin. So before I get another few thousand emails asking for the same thing, I thought I’d just get the word out that it’s already included in the next release (kinda sorta).

Kinda Sorta?

Yep, that’s a real word (or words), at least in my dictionary it is! Anyway, the next version of the plugin (v3.1) includes Google Reader, which many of you probably already know is hooked to Google Buzz. So, by simply submitting articles to Google Reader, you’ll also been submitting them directly to Google Buzz as well!

So once the next version is released (which is long overdue by the way) you’ll be able to kill two birds with one stone by submitting to Google Reader AND Google Buzz with just one click. Hope that’s satisfactory to you!

Completely Unrelated Note:

Just in case any of you were wondering… I’ve been out of state for a couple of weeks now. Came back a few days ago only to realize my computer had been fried by lightning! So I had to order a bunch of new parts from Newegg, and after 2 bad sticks of RAM and a bogus copy of Windows 7… I’ve finally got everything up and running! w00t!

Please be patient as I try to get to the over 2,120 emails that are still lurking in my inbox!

This blog post was originally posted on the SexyBookmarks’ blog. Shareaholic has since taken over the responsibility for the continued development and improvement of SexyBookmark publisher plugins!

Yet another quick update related to this nightmare release… If you’re having issues related to either v3.0 or v3.0.1 and want to help get it working right, here’s your chance!

I’m not taking any chances this time, and therefore, I plan to hold a private beta period before the next stable release. So, anyone who had errors this time around can test it out BEFORE it’s released as stable. I’ll be working on getting this version set up and ready to go within the next couple of days, so if you are interested in beta testing the next release to see if it does in fact alleviate the bugs that are plaguing the current release, then please send me an email to: support[at]shareaholic[dot]com

I’ll keep your email handy and let you know when I get the beta release ready for testing. At which time I’ll give you instructions on how and where to download, as well as what sorts of things to be looking for.