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 I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views.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

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.

RSS Blogroll vs WP Social Blogroll