Are you using our free plugin for WordPress called Social–you know, the one that collects all of the conversations on social networks about your blog posts and drops them into your comment threads? Well, the recent upgrade, version 2.7, has some really critical updates you’ll need for the plugin to continue to connect to Facebook and Twitter to work its magic.

You can find the updated version of the plugin in WordPress’s plugin directory, or just log in to your blog, click the “Plugins” link in the navigation, find Social, and click “update.” It’ll be quick, painless, and your blog comments will keep working. Hooray!

Upgrade to Social 2.7

Social, the WordPress plugin we created with the fine folks at CrowdFavorite, has just gotten an update that introduces some new features, improved performance, and a few bug fixes. You might recall that it’s a great way to connect the conversations that are happening on Facebook and Twitter about your WordPress content. Social aggregates comments onto your blog, and helps you broadcast to social channels when you publish.

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We recently released a cool little WordPress plugin called Social that pulls the conversations on Twitter and Facebook about your blog into each post and makes it easy to broadcast to social channels when you publish. We were scratching our own itch. We’ve pined for a better way to handle comments on our blog, so we teamed up with our friends at Crowd Favorite to make a tailor-made solution. It turns out that we’re not alone. Ten thousand people have tried Social on their blogs too. After months of usage, we discovered a few things we could do better. Today we’re releasing Social 2.0 with a whole bunch of improvements:

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I spent a few days working with the lads at WooThemes getting some MailChimp magic into one of their most popular themes, Canvas.

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I’ve been running into a lot of people who are using their blog as their CMS lately, and who want to combine them with MailChimp. I usually recommend they create content in their blog, then publish it to their email list automatically via our RSS-to-email tool. Believe it or not though, there are people with valid business cases for going in the opposite direction: from MailChimp to blog. All we could do for them in the past was recommend they change their business model (not exactly an ideal pitch to customers).

Thankfully, Mark Parolisi has created a WordPress plugin for MailChimp that “fetches your campaign archives and either creates them as posts in your WP database, or just displays them live by fetching them from MailChimp upon request.”

Give it a shot and let Mark know if you find it useful. Oh, and some other WP plugins for MailChimp you might like:

• WP Analytics 360 – mashes your mailchimp and website traffic into your WordPress dashboard. Shows power bloggermailers how their work is driving traffic to their site. (21,000+ downloads)
• WP signup form – stick a MailChimp signup form on your WP blog. (20,000+ downloads)