AddThis WordPress Plugin (drop-down version)

Hot! Hot! We’ve got it! We now also have a WordPress Plugin for the new drop-down version of the widget. This Plugin will automatically insert the AddThis widget below each post in your blog (see it below this post). It’s very easy to install, you don’t even need to change anything in your templates. Here are the instructions:
1) Download it on your computer, and unzip it
2) Upload it into your wp-content/plugins directory
3) Log into your WordPress blog, click on the ‘Plugins’ tab, and click ‘Activate’

Like the other plugin, this Plugin also supports Stats. If you want to get bookmarking statistics (e.g. top bookmarked posts over various time periods), open the .php file and set the ‘addthis_username’ variable to, well, your AddThis username.

Edit (2008-12-23):

We updated our plugin. You can download the new and improved version here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/

Cool New Version of the Widget

You’re going to like this. We’ve just finished building a new version of the AddThis widget. It’s the same button but instead of providing the list of bookmarking service via a pop-up, this widget offers a neat little drop-down window. See below this post.

Click here to try it and get the code. Please let us know what you think.

Enjoy!

Faster! Faster!

In a continuing effort to improve AddThis, we have decided to move it to a new platform. With new requirements to reliably deliver the widget over 200 times per second (yep, you read that right), this was only a matter of time.

So during the next few days you will start noticing significant improvements in the speed of delivery of the AddThis Widget. The delivery will also be more reliable as the new servers will do load-balancing; if one server becomes overloaded with traffic the others will immediately jump in and take on some of the load. The transition to the new servers will happen completely seamlessly.