The AWSOM Archive plugin for WordPress (formerly called the AWSOM Drop Down Archive) has been updated to version 1.2.2 and is available for download from it’s product page at AWSOM.org. This is a minor update which fixes an admin area typo and add in full XHTML compliance.

The AWSOM News Announcement plugin for WordPress has been updated to version 1.3.2 and is now available for download from it’s product page. This new version of the plugin is a minor release that has been revised to allow for full XHTML compliance.

Sometimes during a coding project you can discover that you are at a point where you may need to backtrack. I’m possibly at that point with the new release of AWSOM Pixgallery. I may have to redo a major part of the work I’ve been doing to go in a different direction with the new features I’m adding. The workflow for the user is not what I was hoping it would be, and as a result I think the process I was using is now incorrect. What I plan on doing though is to bundle up the features that are not a problem and release a new version soon, but scaled back from what I was hoping to have in the next release. Since I’m in the redevelopment phase of things I’m not sure when this will be, but it will certainly be sooner than what would have been the regular release.

Just wanted to keep you guys up on what’s going on.

A new beta version of the upcoming AWSOM Pixgallery 4.4.4 release is now available for download. This version adds a fix for some Javascript issues that have been reported between Pixgallery and some other plugins ( most notably the Share This plugin). To download the new beta please go to the AWSOM Pixgallery product page or use this link to directly download it. Please let me know if you still encounter any Javascript related issues or have problems with the new Absolute Linking support.

The new version of the AWSOM News Announcement plugin for WordPress has been released. Version 1.3.1 adds in the new ability to place your news block within a post or page using the code %%awsomnews%% within that post/page, this allows you to also use the plugin to run php code within a post or page by turning on the active php code option. In addition the admin page was cleaned up a bit and re-arraigned to make more sense. You can get the latest version of the plugin from it’s product page at AWSOM.org