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 I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views.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

Zack Katz

<h3>Finally, Choose Parent Categories for Link Categories</h3>
<p>One of the problems with WordPress’ built-in blogroll/bookmark functionality is that you can’t choose to create nested categories (sub-categories) for the links. This is silly, and makes the functionality nearly useless.</p>
<h4>Treat yourself to some nested blogroll categories</h4>
<p>This plugin allows link categories to have parent categories (makes link categories “hierarchical”), saving you time and maybe even <em>saving the world</em>.</p>
<p>The plugin also now includes a widget!</p>
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<h4>You may also be interested in:</h4>
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<li><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rich-text-tags/" rel="ugc">Rich Text Tags</a></strong> – Enable rich text editing of tags, categories, and taxonomies. Add value to your tag & category pages and improve your website’s SEO.</li>
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Hierarchical Link Categories

Convert WordPress' link categories to be hierarchical with this simple plugin.

RSS Blogroll vs Hierarchical Link Categories