As mentioned in this blog post the plugin makes use of the new PetrolPrices.com XML data feed in order to build a fully customisable table.  The plugin provides both a widget which can be included in any widgetized theme, and a shortcode which can be included in any post or page.

There’s more information on the PetrolPrices.com feeds page, and the plugin can be downloaded from WordPress.org.

Having said this, the healthiest of us can become unwell in the winter. Just as the best looked after cars can breakdown at anytime.

Breaking down often happens at the most inopportune moment, in the most inconvenient of places. You could breakdown in the middle of nowhere leaving you stranded. This is the last thing that you want to happen to you on a cold dark Monday morning, however, you might be surprised to know that Mondays are the most common day to need roadside assistance.

Preparation is key, and when buying breakdown cover you should take some time to decide which is the best type of breakdown cover for you. With around 20% of breakdowns happening at home, making sure that you are covered for breakdowns at home could save you a lot of money in the long run. Surely there can be no better reason for spending a small sum of money on breakdown cover, which could mean you are on your way again in under 30 minutes.

A few months ago, PetrolPrices.com announced that we now compare breakdown cover, and in that time we have been working hard to improve the information that we have on the site. As well as more information we have also redesigned our breakdown cover pages to make it easier for you to find your way around all the information.

Take a look at PetrolPrices.com for a comprehensive guide to the best breakdown recovery for you, information on how to stay to safe when you breakdown on a motorway, and more importantly how to avoid breakdowns.

So if you like PetrolPrices.com and want the official iPhone App – then you can find out more here, or you can buy it directly on iTunes here.

With a rise in the number of Britons staying in the UK this summer, we wanted to help make sure that they weren’t left stranded having to pay for expensive recovery costs after a breakdown. We decided to compare breakdown cover providers by both policy details as well as price, making it easier for drivers to find the best deal.

After comparing 11 top breakdown cover providers we found that motorists could save over £90 on a policy, proving that it’s well worth shopping around.

Not satisfied with just helping car drivers in the UK, we decided to also compare motorbike, caravan and business breakdown cover. And with the summer holidays in full swing we added European breakdown cover to the growing list.

Have you ever broken down without cover and had to pay sky high prices to be taken home again? Or do you have breakdown cover which you renew every year without finding a better deal? Make sure you are getting the best service for the best price, take a look at our breakdown cover page.

At the time of writing one of the posts had already received over 250 comments contributing a massive 40,000 words. I think we really struck a chord with people, and they liked the opportunity to get their feelings about these issues of their chests.

Read more at news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/bus…

We got picked up by Hitwise on the launch day as the 7th largest site in the UK Automotive category and 24th largest over the first week. Pretty amazing to think that we could build a site that got 2% of all automotive traffic in the UK from a standing start. Also very humbling to realise how far we have to go before we are the biggest. It looks like some of the big players have approaching 500,000 visits a day!

It’s a great feeling when you launch something like this that helps so many people though and I am more confident than ever that we are on the right track.

Support inevitably pours in prompting us to fix minor bugs that we missed as part of what is now a pretty thorough pre-launch testing period. I’m pleased to say though that the majority of comments were praise so we must have got something right. In total we got something like 1200 positive comments in week one which is amazing and highly motivating.

As a result of some of the comments we have been talking to various volunteer ambulance services about how we can help their drivers who take elderly and ill patients to hospital. They help where the cost of an ambulance would make proper care for them impossible to deliver on tight NHS budgets. These people do a great job and survive on just fuel expenses. One of them contacted us and said using our site he is already saving £50 a month. He is doing 6000 miles a month though!

I thought I knew how he feels because the month before we launched I have been driving all over the place trying to get new deals signed off for a number of great sites that we are working on. But I was shattered and he just seems to approach it with ease.

All I can say is well done to anyone who volunteers and gives up their time like this to help others I just hope we can do our bit by help them save some money so that they can carry on.