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Hi folks,

First, sorry about the lack of updates recently; I’ve been busy working on other projects.
Today we rolled out a major update to our site:

• We have upgraded to latest WordPress version 2.3.3!
• New: AdSense-Deluxe Plugin (Same revenue share 90/10)
• New: WordPress.com Stats Plugin
• New: Simple Tags Plugin (We recommend upgrade from UTW ASAP as we will remove UTW plugin soon. You can import UTW tags with official default importer: Manage -> Import)
• New: AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget
• New: Plugoo Widgets
• New: Snap Shots Plugin
• Upgarde: Ultimate GA 1.6.0
• Upgrade: Anarchy Media Player 2.0

Please report in this post any broken themes and plugins or any other problem. Thank you.

Plugins:

• Contact Form (to activate add %% wpcontactform %% w/o spaces to your page)
• FeedBurner
• Gregarious is a social bookmarking plugin that integrates the new Digg API and Alex King’s Share This plugin, as well as the Reddit button and Feedburner’s Feedflare into one powerful, easy to use package. The AJAX interface makes customization a breeze, and the options put you in control.

Sidebar Widgets:

• BlogRush
• MyBlogLog
• BlogCatalog

Ultimate GA - this is a WordPress plugin to add JavaScript to your weblog for using Google Analytics. It does not only add the basic JavaScript to track your pages, but can also add JavaScript to outbound, mailto: and download links so you can also track clicks on these links.

Instructions:

• Go to the administration page of your WordPress installation (normally at http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin)
• Click on the Plugins tab and search for Ultimate Google Analytics in the list
• Activate the Ultimate Google Analytics plugin
• You can now find an Ultimate GA page under Options to set the options of the plug-in
• Wait until Google Analytics updates your reports. Currently it seems like this can take up to 24 hours. Note that by default Google Analytics selects a week ending yesterday as its reporting period. Click on today in the lefthand calendar to see today’s statistics, if they’ve already been reported.

To enable Picasa Web Album widget - activate the plugin in the plugins panel, go to Presentation - SideBar Widgets and drag the Picasa web album widget into your sidebar, set the options (your picasa username) and voila.

“Widgets” is just a silly buzzword we’ve chosen for this sidebar-chopping plug-in we have developed. They could have been called Gadgets or Gizmos or Wizbangs or Whatevers. On the surface, they’re just things you can use to personalize your WordPress site without knowing HTML.