Sarah Anderson

Thomas Widmann

This plugin allows you to display the most recent posts from your favourite blogs somewhere on your site.
It utilises the RSS link field from the blogroll for each of your links. If the RSS link exists it attempts to get the last posts from it.
It then displays the most recent X number of posts depending on your settings, ordered by date. This means that some blogs will contribute many more items to the list than others, simply because they post more frequently.
<h3>Support</h3>
Support is provided at http://www.complexli.com/contact/

Mixed Updates

Use the RSS field in your Blogroll and display the most recent post from sites that you link to, ordered by date, not by site.

StefanMz

Grouped Links Widget can use any number of widget instances to group links by their associated link categories. This adds a bit more CMS functionality to WordPress.
If the blogroll is grouped into link categories and each category contains internal tag references, then you can flexibly group link categories and put these link groups into your sitebar(s). This, of course, works with traditional external links put in a blogroll too.
Each group of link categories can be sorted by name acending or decending. If simple sorting doesn’t fit to your desired order to be appear in the sidebar, then create more than one link group and place them in the sidebar as you wish.
In order to adapt Grouped Links Widget to different HTML theme codes, HTML tags can be set for each link group and for each title within the link group. However, default values should work with most themes.
Grouped Links Widget is a simple widget, it mainly uses wp_list_bookmarks. Version 2.0 was completely refactored in order to adapt to the new WordPress 2.8 multi widget technique. If you want to add more functionality, don’t hesitate to modify the code. 😉
Grouped Links Widget’s homepage: <a href="http://groupedlinks.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://groupedlinks.wordpress.com/</a>

Grouped Links Widget

Grouped Links Widget can use an unlimited number of widget instances to group links by their associated link categories.

Mixed Updates vs Grouped Links Widget