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 I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views.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

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<p>Forward: Blogroll lets you follow selected blogs from inside WordPress. Add blog URLs or direct RSS feed URLs, validate them from the admin screen, import recent items, and display the newest external posts on any page with a shortcode.</p>
<p>Imported items are stored in a dedicated internal post type, so external posts stay separate from your normal Posts archive.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add blog URLs or direct RSS and Atom feed URLs from the WordPress admin.</li>
<li>Discover feed URLs from site metadata and common feed paths.</li>
<li>Validate feeds before importing.</li>
<li>Choose how many recent posts are imported when a feed is first added.</li>
<li>Check enabled feeds hourly with WP-Cron.</li>
<li>Avoid duplicate imports using source, permalink, GUID, and publish date.</li>
<li>Display imported posts with <code>[forward_blogroll]</code>.</li>
<li>Includes bundled translation files for common languages.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Good for</h4>
<ul>
<li>Personal or team blogrolls.</li>
<li>Curated reading pages.</li>
<li>Publisher networks that want to highlight recent external posts.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcode</h3>
<p>Basic usage:</p>
<pre><code>[forward_blogroll]
</code></pre>
<p>Limit the number of displayed items:</p>
<pre><code>[forward_blogroll posts_per_page="10"]
</code></pre>
<p>The <code>posts_per_page</code> value is capped at 100.</p>
<p>Display items from one configured source:</p>
<pre><code>[forward_blogroll source="source_id"]
</code></pre>
<p>You can copy a source ID from the shortcode options table in the Blogroll admin screen.</p>
<h3>External requests and stored data</h3>
<p>Forward: Blogroll makes HTTP requests only to the blog and feed URLs you configure. It uses those requests to discover RSS or Atom feed URLs, validate feeds, and import new items during scheduled WP-Cron checks.</p>
<p>For each imported item, the plugin stores the item title, source name, source feed URL, original permalink, publish date, duplicate-prevention fingerprints, and image URL when one is available. It does not copy full article content into normal WordPress posts.</p>


Forward: Blogroll

Import selected RSS feeds into a local blogroll and display the newest external posts with a shortcode.

RSS Blogroll vs Forward: Blogroll