Flare Smith reaches new milestone

My Flare Smith Plugin, reached a new milestone today: v0.17. This version fleshes out the functionality to support new school AdSense enabled feeds, but also supports the popular My Brand feature which allows you to mask feeds.feedburner.com URLs with your own domain name. Version 0.17 also sports a shiny new options page that should be a little easier to use, especially now that there are 3 distinct settings that must be manipulated, depending on your needs, to get Flare Smith up and running.

There is one caveat though. The AdSense enabled feed support is a little wonky, but of no fault of my own.

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FlareSmith v0.9 and Plugin Competition Update

I updated FlareSmith, my WordPress plugin that helps you integrate FeedFlare and FeedBurner stats into your WordPress blog without having to edit your theme files, yesterday. Version 0.9 added an option to include the FeedBurner javascript snippet below every post on the site, instead of just on the Single page (full blog post). This way, when your posts are listed on the homepage or in other lists, the FeedFlare will show. You’ll want to keep this option turned off if you aren’t using FeedFlare on your site, and just want FeedBurner Stats, as FB Stats are only set to record hits to the individual posts, and not the archive or homepage of your blog. I also cleaned up the documentation some, and am preparing the plugin for i18n. I already have a couple of volunteers for Spanish and Turkish, but if you’re interested in helping to translate the FlareSmith plugin – let me know.

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