pantsonhead

<p>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 I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views.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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>


RSS Blogroll

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

petermolnar

<p>The plugin re-activates the long forgotten <a href="https://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/" rel="nofollow ugc">blogroll or links</a> section of WordPress in order to turn your site to an <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001148" rel="nofollow ugc">rss2email</a>-like service.</p>
<h4>How it works:</h4>
<ul>
<li>all links that has their RSS link filled in will pull the RSS feed of those sites</li>
<li>those links that does not yet have RSS will be parsed as <a href="http://microformats.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Microformats 2</a>
<ul>
<li>in case the site has an RSS alternate link, the plugin will fill this information in and use the RSS instead of the microformats parser</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>the link names will be updated based on the feed name automatically</li>
<li>all the parsed entries since the last check will be sent to the link owner’s email address as HTML mails with the following additional header:
<ul>
<li><code>X-RSS-ID</code> with the link URL</li>
<li><code>X-RSS-URL</code> with the link URL</li>
<li><code>X-RSS-Feed</code> with the feed URL</li>
<li><code>User-Agent</code> with blogroll2email,</li>
<li>these are in place in order for filter script to work</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>the revisit time is 30minutes ( not changeable yet )</li>
<li>the plugin uses WordPress Cron</li>
</ul>
<h4>Credit</h4>
<ul>
<li>thank you for <a href="https://github.com/indieweb/php-mf2/" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP Mf2 parser</a> from <a href="https://waterpigs.co.uk/" rel="nofollow ugc">Barnaby Walters</a></li>
</ul>


RSS Blogroll vs blogroll2email