RSS Blogroll
I don’t really like Blogrolls, I think they’re not much more than glorified link dumps, and I’m not the only one. 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 I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views.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 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.
Isn’t that still just a glorified link dump?
Yes it is, but where would the internet be without any links? 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.
Installation
- Upload `rss-blogroll.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory of your WordPress installation
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- The Activity Sparks widget can now be configured and used from the Appearance -> Widgets menu
WordPress plugin page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-blogroll/
thank you plugin
I’ve been waiting for WordPress to incorporate a feature like this.
i don’t like the widget system. is there a code which i can put in my theme to enable this plugin?
Hi Ralf, there is no template tag support yet – I’m not sure how easy it would be to integrate, but I’ll look into it.
Great, thx!
Is there a max number of urls that can be entered? I installed with about 5 urls and it was working just fine, then I put together a big list of urls that I wanted to input and since then, no dice. Any ideas?
Hi Natalie, there is no limit, but it will get really heavy with more feed URLs – each one can take around 100ms to load (or more depending on the server). It could be that one bad feed is killing the process. The current version v0.1 is probably suited to about 5 or less feeds. Thanks for the feedback, I’ll do some more tests.
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Hi
how to without use widget, insert to sidebar ?
thanks
Sorry SK, the current version only supports use via the widget.
thanks 4 replay comment
always be successful
Hi I just installed your plugin and it looks really good. But one of the RSS feeds doesnt get updated – any suggestions? Thanks
Hi Jens, the RSS Blogroll widget uses the same RSS parsing engine as the standard “RSS” widget so I’d recommend checking if that widget has any problems with the feed in question. It could just be a badly formatted feed.
thanks for your work!
possible suggestions:
- option to display website favicon (from feed domain, or, perhaps user defined)
- option for user defined feed naming
- option to display RSS icon linking to feed for each feed
Hello,
after install this plugin in my WP 2.8.5 sometimes I get this error:
Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in D:\path-to\my\blog\wp-includes\http.php on line 1787
I got this error in localhost, but also in my ISP.
I read this was an error for an old 2.8.1 version of WP, but I’m not sure if this error was fixed by the team of WP, o by the team of the plugin that had this problem for first time.
Check these links, please:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/279190?replies=8
See the author’s plugin page: http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/lastfm/
and the ticket he opened at http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10163
thank you!
PS: in the next version, may be you could take the favicon of every site and put them as icon for every feed the plugin get for that site.
is there a demo?
Have a look at the sidebar below the Tag Cloud… —->
This is a fantastic plugin, I love it, and I’m going to post a blog post about it as it’s just what the boring old blogroll needed! (Which I’ve never been much of a fan of.)
Hi Sebastyne, Thanks for the great feedback and then kind words in your post
http://www.sebastyne.com/2010/02/rss-blogroll-plugin-for-wordpress/
Beautiful. But I have the same problem as Natalie: it’s not working properly with larger (>5) number of feeds. Help please.
Thanks so much for this plugin. It’s great, simply GREATTTTT….
Have a great day. I really appreciate this plugin
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Thanks for making this plugin available! One question – is
there a way to change the blog names in the blog roll?
Thanks
OK, did this:
$title_url=explode(”+”,$rss_url);
$rss_url = $title_url[0];
$rss_title = $title_url[1];
if($rss_url!=” AND ($display_style==’time’ OR count($items)fetch_feed($rss_url,$cachetime);
if(is_wp_error($feed)) {
// report the error?
} else {
if ( $rss_title != ” ) {
$feedname = $rss_title;
} else {
$feedname = $feed->get_title();
}
Now I can add entries like
http://foo.com+FOO
to get the name “FOO”
I like this plugin
Hi! My webhost told me to contact you to see if there was a fix for this as it’s my favorite plug in I use. Last night they had to shut my site down because it appeared as though it was under attack (200 +) ports opened at once. We couldn’t figure out what was causing it. They went into my back end of my blog and started fiddling and figured out that what was causing it was the RSS blogroll plug in. As soon as we deactivated it the attack stopped.
Is there anything that I can do to stop this from happening? Or was there an update that changed something.
I’ve had the same problem – had to deactivate. So miss it!
Thanks!
Thanks!
It’s difficult for me, but I’ll try to get it to work
Hello, your plugin is incredible. I have one question: there is a shortcode that allows me to bring in post RSS Blogroll? I look forward to feedback.