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.

LizzyFin

<p>The WP Latest Post Blogroll plugin improves the static blogroll by showing new and different links with each new post on your favorite sites. It fetches the most recent post title for each blog listed in the blogroll. The blogroll is then presented as a list of links to these latest blog posts. Instead of a static list of links to the blogroll sites, the links list appears differently with every blog post published.</p>
<p>WP Latest Post Blogroll updates your links list with the last post title for each link. With a dynamic blogroll your site will always be current with no more effort from you. All you have to do is install and activate the plugin. There are no options to fiddle with!</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>WP Latest Post Blogroll plugin is a simplified adaptation of Vladimir Prelovac’s Live Blogroll plugin.</p>


WP Latest Post Blogroll

The WP Latest Post Blogroll plugin creates a link with the most recent post title for each blog listed in the blogroll.

RSS Feed Checker vs WP Latest Post Blogroll