KJ Coop

<p>This plugin will display a given number of random blogroll categories to show.<br />
It will show all the links in those categories.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Unless you’ve changed some defaults, your blogroll is most likely displayed by<br />
the following line of code in wp-content/themes/[your theme]/sidebar.php:
    </p>
<p>The simplest way to display a random category is just by replacing that line<br />
with a call to blogroll_random_category:
    </p>
<p>If you want to include a link to the whole blogroll, you can create a page in<br />
wordpress using the links template. Note the permalink. If you’ve already got a<br />
list of your pages in the sidebar, you’re in business. Otherwise you can add one<br />
with the following line of code:<br />
    <a href="[your permalink]" rel="nofollow ugc">See complete blogroll</a></p>
<p>If your blogroll is not set to be categorized, or if there is only one category,<br />
it will return the whole thing untouched.</p>
<h3>Advanced</h3>
<h3>Showing multiple categories</h3>
<p>If you want multiple categories returned, you can send the function that number.<br />
For example:</p>
<p>will return 5 randomized categories. If you only have 4 categories, it will<br />
return all of them in a random order.</p>
<h3>Retaining arguments sent to wp_list_bookmarks</h3>
<p>If you’re sending arguments to wp_list_bookmarks, you can send those to<br />
blogroll_random_category and it will pass them along to wp_list bookmarks. In<br />
this example, we’re showing all categories except #23:
    </p>
<p>The change below will show five random categories, none of which will be #23. If<br />
you only have four categories, this will return the three that are not #23:
    </p>
<h3>To show one category all the time and the rest randomize the rest</h3>
<p>In the sidebar you can explicitly call that category. When only one category is<br />
selected, this plugin knows to return it as it is. Any subsequent calls to<br />
blogroll_random_category ought to be instructed to exclude it in order to avoid<br />
the possibility that it happens to be randomly selected:</p>
<pre><code><?php wp_list_bookmarks('category=23'); ?>
<?php blogroll_random_category(5, 'exclude_category=23'); ?><h3>1.0</h3>* The first version.<h3>1.5</h3>* Whereas this plugin previously altered the behavior of wp_list_bookmarks in a
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<p>way that made it impossible to see the whole blogroll. Now it uses a separate<br />
  function call so that in some instances you can see random categories, but in<br />
  others you can see the whole blogroll.<br />
* Now possible to return multiple random categories without separate function<br />
  calls, thus eliminiating the possibility that two of the random categories<br />
  will be the same.</p>
<h3>1.5.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>The leading closing li tag was not actually getting trimmed off due to<br />
bad copying and pasting. That has been resolved.</li>
</ul>
<h3>A personal request</h3>
<p>If you use/enjoy this plugin, I’d love to hear from you. You’re under no<br />
obligation, but I’d enjoy knowing that somebody out there is enjoying my work.<br />
Promptly returning e-mail is not my strong suit, so you may never get the<br />
courtesy of a reply, but you can rest assured that I appreciated your effort.</p>
<p>I can be reached at kj@kjcoop.com.</p>


Random Blogroll Category

This plug in will select one or more random blogroll categories to show.

Erunafailaro

<p>WP Social Blogroll adds a social blogroll to your blog. It will follow and display all updates of the sites in your blogroll. See the <a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/" title="visit the development blog" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin page</a> or the <a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/" title="visit the development blog" rel="nofollow ugc">author’s page</a> for more details.</p>
<p>See this <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/screenshots/" title="example of the WP Social Blogroll" rel="ugc">screenshot</a> for example.</p>
<p>The plugin retrieves the date of the most recent feed-item of the bookmarked site. The feeds must be indexed by Google as the plugin uses <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/" title="Google AJAX Feed API" rel="nofollow ugc">Google’s free AJAX Feed API</a>.</p>
<p>You no longer need a <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/signup.html" title="Google API Key" rel="nofollow ugc">Google API Key</a> to get it to work. If you own an API key, you can use it. But providing a key is optional.</p>
<p>Based on Google’s information, the age of the most recent feed-item is calculated and then displayed under each bookmark in your sidebar.</p>
<p><strong>Your blogroll can be sorted by the freshness of the bookmarks.</strong></p>
<p>Furthermore, the title and author of the freshest post and an icon for each bookmark can be displayed.</p>
<p>Get more info at the <a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/kategorien/feedreadingblogroll/" title="visit the development blog" rel="nofollow ugc">development blog</a> (<a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/kategorien/feedreadingblogroll/feed" title="subscribe to the feed" rel="nofollow ugc">feed</a>).</p>
<h3>Upgrading</h3>
<p>You are encouraged to use the plugin-upgrade-function that WordPress is offering.</p>
<p>However. if you would you are preferring a manual upgrade, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Download the most recent zip-file of this plugin and extract the contents.</li>
<li>On your server, where your WordPress-installation is located, delete the contents of this directory: <code>/wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/*</code></li>
<li>Upload all the new plugin-files to this directory (<code>/wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/*</code>).</li>
<li>Login to your admin-dashboard and go to the plugin’s options-page.</li>
<li>Click on the JavaScript-tab and push the rebuild-button to generate a new JavaScript-file on the server.</li>
</ol>
<p>That’s it 🙂</p>
<h3>Language Support / Translations</h3>
<p>This plugin supports different languages. Check the <a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/#language" title="language section" rel="nofollow ugc">language section</a> on my homepage for details. If you want to contribute with your own translation, feel free to contact me. I’d be delighted to add it to the plugin.</p>
<p>With the current version these languages are available:</p>
<ul>
<li>Belorussian</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Portuguese</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Turkish</li>
<li>German</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugin Homepage</h3>
<p>The complete documentation is available at my <a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/" title="website" rel="nofollow ugc">website</a>.</p>
<h3>Support Forum</h3>
<p>You will get help at the official WordPress <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/feed-reading-blogroll?forum_id=10#postform" title="Support forum" rel="ugc">Forum</a>.</p>
<h3>Wiki</h3>
<p>You can find lots of information at my <a href="http://wiki.weinschenker.name/feedreadingblogroll:start" title="Wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">Wiki</a></p>


WP Social Blogroll

WP Social Blogroll adds a social blogroll to your blog. It will follow and display all updates of the sites in your blogroll.

Random Blogroll Category vs WP Social Blogroll