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New buttons!
Over the years, Add to Any has introduced a number of new buttons for you to use. This week, we’ve released a few new buttons into the wild!
Per many of your requests, we’ve added ‘favicons’ within some buttons.
And now we’re certainly abiding one unwritten usability law! Notice the up/down arrows in the new default buttons. (They’re like <>, but vertical, and fuller, and oh so wonderful)
One last note: It’s all about “Share/Save“… and “Subscribe” still stands. 😉
Optimized to load 3x faster!
Good news!
If you’re loading two or more Subscribe or Bookmark buttons on one page, the load time is about 3x faster in the latest release.
To achieve the faster load times, all Add to Any widgets now use just one menu instance per page, as opposed to loading a menu for each button per page as before. This means that widgets remain in a consistent state from button to button, improving usability. So a search for “Digg” in one Bookmark widget will keep Digg displayed in all the other Bookmark widgets on a page.
Major shoutout to Jeff Levinsky for the browser benchmarks and feedback. Thanks, Jeff!
WordPress plug-ins released: The drop-down treatment!
If you’re a WordPress user, this is big. This, like, totally applies to you.
Two big releases are hot from of the oven. Both the Subscribe button and Bookmark button received the drop-down treatment tonight (actually, this very early morning!).
Beyond the new drop-down menu, the WordPress plugins are also receiving the same benefits as our general platform widgets:
- Automatic changes and updates to the menu
- Search
- Total keyboard navigation
- All the other things we take for granted
- Oh, and Google Analytics integration (more later…)
Listed before each screenshot is what you WordPress people really want: the download link. When you get a chance, let us know what you think.
Bookmark plug-in: https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-to-any/
Subscribe plug-in: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any-subscribe/