Something seems to be broken between Feedburner and Netvibes. Yesterday, Planet WordPress was showing off a cool 1050 feed readers, and today the counter has dropped down to 267. After logging in Feedburner's control panel to check some stats, I found out that:

• Netvibes users are not counted any longer
• Netvibes user count used to be… odd. Stats from last month show that nearly 75%! of Planet WordPress readers where Netvibes users, and this seems to be really improbable.
  

Anyone else notices a feed reader drop because of this? I hope things are not that broken with Netvibes. I was pretty happy of the nice constant raise of Planet WordPress's feed reader count, I'd be quite disappointed to see it deflate :)

Edit: feed reader count back to 1050, with the unbelievable share of Netvibes users at 72%. Go figure.

ShareWP is a digg-like site (using Pligg I think) dedicated solely to, obviously, WordPress. It seems fairly new (domain registered a few months ago, only a handful or registered users) and I think it has some potential: overall it's nicely done, and well focused on WordPress, a topic that other socialish sites such as Reddit or Digg seem to neglect.

You can submit articles, themes or plugins, with a few predefined categories as well as, of course, the tags you'd like. The process of submitting an article is pretty much what you expect from a Digg clone, with all the spell check and preview and everything.

The sites comes with the mandatory tools (bookmarklet and "Vote It" one-click submit button) but, quite oddly I'd say, doesn't provide their own… WordPress plugin that would add the Vote button at the end of each article? (To be fair, explanations are given on how to integrate this button to your theme template, but I think a plugin would make newbies' day)

Last question, that will remain unanswered for now, will be: will there be any SharedWP effect killing poor websites and bringing servers knees down? Vote for this article and we all find out :)
Edit: Guess we won't be finding out immediately, since all I get when clicking on the "Vote" badge is a 404. The story still shows up on front page though. Hopefully fixed soon! Fixed! :)

Edit: Launchus interruptus! The site has been (temporarily we hope) taken down because it was not completely ready. Stay tuned!

WordCast, "Just another WordPress podcast". Add this one to your to-listen list along with The WordPress Podcast and Jeffro's WordPress Weekly if you can't get enough of WordPress related podcasted news.

For about one year now, I've been twittering this site's updates on my @ozh Twitter account, without really telling anyone about it. Call this a forgotten experiment. Well, I'm now telling you, so feel free to follow me!

(Note: I'm not really a Twitter user, so don't expect anything from me if you twitt something to @ozh)

My "Manage Plugins" page are getting quite lengthy: this blogs is running 31 plugins, my test blog is running nearly a hundred. Over the time I have been bringing a few custom enhancements to this page, which I'm now releasing as a plugin.

Better Plugin Page adds some simple yet efficient (at least I think:) improvements and less clutter, with quick action links, tiny icons, and filter buttons, and more.

Try the demo, then give your blog a Better Plugin Page!

I've updated two of my plugins today: Absolute Comments to version 2.2 and Admin Drop Down Menu to version 2.1. So, what's new ?

Absolute Comments 2.2 brings its own administration page within the admin area and fixes the "View All" links (to view all comments for a particular post) which were broken for pages and attachments. This plugin now has more javascript than PHP, I think it's time I stop :)

Admin Drop Down Menu 2.1 adds WPMU compatibility, gets rid of a few CSS glitches with MSIE7-which-I-absolutely-hate-and-even-prefer-MSIE6-by-far, and is now able to dynamically resize its elements if you happen to have too many top-level or submenu links. Running 120 plugins, or running on a 800*600 screen? Have no fear.