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 I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views.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

Shea Bunge

<p>Creates three shortcodes – [bookmarks], [links] and [blogroll] – that will generate an unordered list of your WordPress links.<br />
Preforms the same function as <code>wp_list_bookmarks()</code>.</p>
<p>You can any of the shortcodes within a post, page, media, text widget, etc.<br />
This makes it much more flexible then using the default Links page template that may be included in your theme as you can add other content surrounding the list, also when you change themes there is no need to edit the page.</p>
<p>You can customize the output of the list by using the same arguments that are accepted by the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_list_bookmarks/" rel="nofollow ugc">wp_list_bookmarks()</a> function.<br />
Example: <code>[bookmarks show_images=0 show_ratings=1 show_name=1 ]</code></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/sheabunge/bookmarks-shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">Contribute at GitHub</a></p>
<h3>Update Notice</h3>
<h4>2.2</h4>
<p>Improved default bookmarks markup</p>


Bookmarks Shortcode

Creates shortcodes that will generate an unordered list of your WordPress links (bookmarks).

RSS Blogroll vs Bookmarks Shortcode