Newman

<p>Blogroll Fun uses a subscription to a free service that allows it to easily determine the last update time and the last post for all of the links in your blogroll without slowing down the loading time of your blog.  It allows you to choose if you want to display this information in your blogroll or not.  It simply replaces the standard wordpress link widget while providing additional functionality.</p>
<p>Blogroll Fun can be compared to the feed reading blogroll.  However, unlike feed reading blogroll the last post information is sent to your blog and stored with your blogroll.  It does not rely on your visitors to load this information, or any javascript tricks.</p>
<p>Settings can be updated by going to manage, widgets, then edit on the links widget.</p>
<p>Currently, no ads are being delivered through this plugin.</p>


mibuthu

<p>The purpose of this plugin is to to show the wordpress integrated links in a list or a slider by using a shortcode or a widget.</p>
<h4>Current Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>the shortcode [linkview] can be used to add the links in a post or page</li>
<li>the widget “LinkView” can be used to add links in a sidebar</li>
<li>the links can be displayed in a list or in a slider</li>
<li>there are many options available to adjust the output of the links (see shortcode options in the “About LinkView” page)</li>
<li>the image of the link can also be displayed</li>
<li>categories and/or links can be displayed in multicolumn layout</li>
<li>option to set additional css styles for the link-lists and link-sliders</li>
<li>the required user roles to edit links can be adjusted in the settings page</li>
</ul>
<h4>Development:</h4>
<p>If you want to follow the development status have a look at the <a href="https://github.com/mibuthu/wp-link-view" title="wp-link-view git-repository" rel="nofollow ugc">git-repository on github</a>.<br />
Feel free to add your merge requests there, if you want to help to improve the plugin.</p>
<h4>Translations:</h4>
<p>Please help translating this plugin into multiple languages.<br />
You can submit your translations at <a href="https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/wp-link-view" title="wp-link-view at transifex" rel="nofollow ugc">transifex.com</a>.<br />
There the source strings will be kept in sync with the actual development version. And in each plugin release the available translation files will be updated.</p>


Link View

Display a link-list or link-slider in a post or page by using a shortcode.

Blogroll Fun – Show Last Post and Last Update Time vs Link View