pantsonhead

I don’t really like Blogrolls, I think they’re often not much more than glorified link dumps. I don’t like how they give you nothing more than the Blog title, and unless that title really grabs your attention, you’re never gonna click it. I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views. In their current format, they just appear to be a great waste of space.
This is why I decided to create the RSS Blogroll plugin. RSS Blogroll allows you to link to your favourite blogs via the latest items from their RSS/Atom feed. Article titles are much more attention grabbing and will deliver much higher quality traffic. We all hate clicking through to abandoned blogs – displaying article publication dates also lets readers know these are up to date and active sites.
Many of us want to direct some of our traffic to related sites. RSS Blogroll will create deeplinks to the target sites, which are much more useful for SEO than homepage links. Overall it’s a win-win situation with a better browsing experience for users and the linked sites getting more visitors who are actually interested in their content.

RSS Blogroll

Sidebar widget that links to recent entries from RSS/Atom feeds.

rajivpant

xenograg

For people who maintain their Web site or blog using the WordPress blog content management system, 
blogroll-links is an open source WordPress plugin that uses WordPress’ built-in Blogroll feature and presents links to friends’ home pages and own pages on social networking sites using XFN in the links.
Features of this plugin
<ul>
<li>It can show the links by category in blog posts and WordPress Pages.</li>
<li>It uses WordPress’ standard built-in Blogroll links database. There is no hassle of another list of links to maintain.</li>
<li>It can be used to show only the links assigned to a particular category, by stating the category slug as defined in that category’s setting in WordPress.</li>
<li>It honors the Show/Hidden setting as defined for each link in WordPress.</li>
<li>It displays the link in the same window or new window, as specified for each link in WordPress.</li>
</ul>
To learn more about this plugin, please read my blog post about it titled 
<a href="http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/10/blogroll-links/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Graphs API: WordPress Plugin: Blogroll Links</a>
Examples
See this plugin in action at the following Posts and Pages powered by WordPress:
<a href="http://www.rajiv.com/friends/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.rajiv.com/friends/</a>
The two lists, first one of links to my own pages on various social networking sites and the second one of links to some of my friends’ pages are generated by this plugin. Yes, those social networks’ logo pictures are also taken by the plugin from the WordPress standard Blogroll links. Code:
<pre><code><h3>My Pages on Social Networking Sites</h3>
</code></pre>
Syntax:
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="rajiv-web" sortby="link_name" sortorder="desc"]
</code></pre>
Old syntax for legacy support: 
 
<pre><code><h3>Web Sites of Some People I Know</h3>
</code></pre>
Syntax:
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="people" sortby="link_name" sortorder="desc"]
</code></pre>
<a href="http://www.rajiv.com/charity/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.rajiv.com/charity/</a>
This list of charitable organizations with brief descriptions is generated by the plugin. Code:
Syntax:
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="charity"]
</code></pre>
<a href="http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2004/08/02/search-engines/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.rajiv.com/blog/2004/08/02/search-engines/</a>
This list of search engines is maintained as Blogroll links in WordPress. Code:
Syntax:
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="search-engines"]
</code></pre>
<a href="http://www.rajiv.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.rajiv.com/</a>
The featured links shown under the “What’s featured here?” section shows the links I’ve categorized as featured in WordPress’ Blogroll links. Code:
<pre><code><a title="featured" name="featured"></a>

<h2>What's featured here?</h2>
</code></pre>
Syntax:
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="featured" sortby="link_name" sortorder="desc"]
</code></pre>
Thanks to Dave Grega, Adam E. Falk (xenograg) for their contributions to this code.

RSS Blogroll vs Blogroll Links