WordPress toolbar plugin provide a facebook, digg style toolbar for all outgoing links from your blog posts. The toolbar url defaults to http://yourblog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php. However with version 2.2, blog admin can customize toolbar url to http://yourblog/wordpress-toolbar/ through the admin panel. A lot of other enhancements have been added like cross-plugin compatibility and support for WPMU hosted blogs. Check full feature list below.
What’s New?
Listed below is list of new features and bug fixes released with v 2.2:
- Support for customizing toolbar url through admin panel
- Support for WPMU hosted blogs
- Support for removing “Get this Plugin” widget from the toolbar through admin panel
- Security fix for possible XSS attack. Fix done by passing encoded hash string instead of plain text parameters. Also added various security checks on toolbar page to avoid possible XSS attacks.
- Bug fix where plugin didn’t work as expected because of cross plugin compatibility issues. Fix done by replacing server side toolbar logic with client side (using jquery) logic.
- Bug fix to show sociable share icons and tinyurl share link only for single posts and pages
- Bug fix for unrecognizable code in the toolbar when the encoding of hosted blog is different from utf-8. Fix done by using hosted blog settings instead of hardcoded utf-8.
Also core plugin code has been restructured (OOPS oriented now) so that maintainability and support becomes easier and quicker.
