Workshopshed

<p>The RSS Feed checker looks through your blogroll for links with rss feeds and then stores the name and url of the latest article.<br />
The Links RSS Enhanced widget then displays the latest links in descending order.<br />
The idea for the widget comes from the blogroll widget on blogger.</p>
<h3>Technical section</h3>
<p>The plugin will create an extra table in your wordpress database to store the latest feed updates,<br />
this will be called links_rss with the prefix for your database e.g. wp_links_rss</p>
<p>A Cron (schedule) is created to run every 30 minutes and process links. Note that Cron in WordPress<br />
depends on hits, your WordPress website receives. So playing with this plugin within an offline<br />
environment (MAMP, XAMPP, WAMP etc.) without anyone or anything triggering the scheduling by<br />
sending requests to the WordPress page won’t produce any results if you do not trigger it by<br />
yourself.</p>
<h3>References</h3>
<p>A selection of places I’ve found help for this plugin.</p>
<p>Thanks also to Ozh, Roland Rust and for their explainations and examples</p>
<h4>Admin UI</h4>
<ul>
<li>https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box</li>
<li>https://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Menus#Page_Hook_Suffix</li>
<li>http://wpengineer.com/1295/meta-links-for-wordpress-plugins/</li>
<li>http://www.code-styling.de/english/how-to-use-wordpress-metaboxes-at-own-plugins</li>
<li>http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/02/wordpress-snippet-add_meta_box/</li>
<li>http://wptheming.com/2011/08/admin-notices-in-wordpress/</li>
<li>http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/improving-security-in-wordpress-plugins-using-nonces</li>
</ul>
<h4>Ajax</h4>
<ul>
<li>http://return-true.com/2010/01/using-ajax-in-your-wordpress-theme-admin/</li>
<li>http://amiworks.co.in/talk/simplified-ajax-for-wordpress-plugin-developers-using-jquery/</li>
<li>http://xplus3.net/2008/10/16/jquery-and-ajax-in-wordpress-plugins-administration-pages/</li>
<li>http://www.garyc40.com/2010/03/5-tips-for-using-ajax-in-wordpress/</li>
</ul>
<h4>Database</h4>
<ul>
<li>http://createmy.com.au/connecting-your-plugin-to-the-wordpress-database/</li>
<li>http://webjawns.com/2009/08/the-wordpress-wpdb-class-explained/</li>
</ul>
<h4>Scheduling</h4>
<ul>
<li>http://wpseek.com/source/wp/latest/nav.html?wp-includes/cron.php.html</li>
<li>Ideas on background processing from the broken link checker</li>
</ul>
<h4>Settings</h4>
<ul>
<li>https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API – new way to handle options/settings         </li>
<li>http://ottopress.com/2009/wordpress-settings-api-tutorial/</li>
<li>http://planetozh.com/blog/2009/05/handling-plugins-options-in-wordpress-28-with-register_setting/</li>
<li>http://wpengineer.com/2139/adding-settings-to-an-existing-page-using-the-settings-api/</li>
<li>http://blog.gneu.org/2010/09/intro-to-the-wordpress-settings-api/</li>
<li>http://alisothegeek.com/2011/01/wordpress-settings-api-tutorial-1/</li>
</ul>
<h4>RSS Feeds</h4>
<ul>
<li>http://jaewon.mine.nu/jaewon/2010/10/30/how-to-make-your-wordpress-a-rss-reader/</li>
<li>https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime</li>
<li>http://simplepie.org/</li>
</ul>


RSS Feed Checker

The RSS Feed checker looks through your blogroll for links with rss feeds and then stores the name and url of the latest article.

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 Feed Checker vs WP Social Blogroll