Its been a couple months now since popular WordPress plugin author Alex King turned over his Share This plugin to the Share This team.   Today it looks like that move paid off, as a new version of the plugin was released called Share This 2.0. 

Most of the changes were done to expand the reach of the plugin beyond WordPress, so WordPress users probably don’t need to upgrade unless they really want to.

Other features now included:

  • Stat tracking
  • Ability to send your post using Facebook, MySpace, AIM, and SMS (in addition to sending by e-mail).
  • Ability to import address books.

If you decide to upgrade your plugin, you will probably have a difficult time in its current state without some PHP knowledge.  You will also need to temporarily use a new call to place it in a custom location (such as how I’ve placed it in my post footer).   According to Alex, you will now use:

<?php if (function_exists('echo st_widget')) echo st_widget(); ?>

If you don’t have a “if” call for your original share this call, you will also need to remove that to avoid problems. 

Again, the new stuff with the plugin is nice, but I don’t recommend upgrading for now until they’ve made it a little more user friendly.  It looks like the Share This team is not yet supporting this plugin upgrade and they have a few more things in store for a future release that should make it easier for the average blogger to install.