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 I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views.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

RSS Blogroll

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

Jan Boddez

Keep your WordPress blogroll in sync with your feed reader.
Syncs once daily. RSS feeds are stored as Links, editable through WordPress’s Link Manager. (Note: This plugin also restores the WordPress Link Manager, which since version 3.5 of WordPress is hidden by default.)
Supports basic authentication as used by, e.g., Miniflux, and offers experimental support for categories.
For a feed to be picked up, it requires both a valid site URL and a valid feed link, though most if not all feed readers will take care of that for you.
To display the resulting “blogroll” on your site’s front end, a <code>[bookmarks]</code> shortcode is introduced.
More details can be found on <a href="https://github.com/janboddez/sync-opml-to-blogroll" rel="nofollow ugc">this plugin’s GitHub page</a>.
<h4>Credits</h4>
Icon, Copyright 2006 OPML Icon Project 
Licensed under a Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" rel="nofollow ugc">Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>. 
Source: <a href="http://www.opmlicons.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.opmlicons.com</a>

Sync OPML to Blogroll

Keep your WordPress blogroll in sync with your feed reader.

RSS Blogroll vs Sync OPML to Blogroll