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WP Social Blogroll (formerly known as Feed Reading Blogroll) provides a sidebar-widget and a template-tag that add an enhanced blogroll to your sidebar. It checks on all your linked sites, when the most recent update has occured (see example in my sidebar on the frontpage).
The plugin is inspired by Blogger’s Blog List.
The check is performed by reading the date of the most recent feed-item. The feeds must be valid RSS2 or ATOM-feeds, otherwise the plugin cannot read the date-information provided by the feed. The Plugin uses the Google AJAX Feed API to access the feeds.
Based on this information, the age of the most recent feed-item is calculated and then displayed under each bookmark in your sidebar.
Furthermore, an icon for each bookmark can be displayed.
Language support 
The great Gianni Diurno took the effort to translate this page into Italian. So if you prefer that language, visit his site.
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Support
Come to the forum.
Documentation, Installation, Configuration
All documentation is located at the Wiki.
There you will see, how to install the plugin and how to configure it.
Language support
The plugin comes with support for Danish, English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and German blogs. It can be translated into other languages as well.
If you like, you can take the file feedreading_blogroll-de_DE.po and use it as the basis for a translation into your own language.
You can contact me, if you have translated the file and I will add the new language to my plugin. Currently these languages are supported:
- Belorussian, thanks to Ilyuha
- Danish, thanks to Georg
- Dutch, thanks to Rene
- English
- French, thanks to Steve
- Hebrew, thanks to Sagive
- Italian, thanks to Gianni Diurno
- Portuguese, thanks to Jorge Silva
- Russian, thanks to Fat Cow
- Spanish, thanks to JC Julien
- Swedish, thanks to Markus Wallgren
- Turkish, thanks to Çağdaş
- Ukrainian, thanks to Kostya
- German
Place the language-file (just the one with the .mo-extension) inside /wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/. Download the latest language file here.
Change Log
The changelog can be found at the plugin-page.
What others are saying
- Tom B.’s Rambles wrote an article about WordPress several blogroll plugins. Among them is Feed Reading Blogroll.
- Review at the Weblog Tools Collection — The famous WLTC has reviewed my plugin
- Podcast: WordCast 47 — my plugin is Kym’s pick of the week
- WLTC: Five Blogroll Plugins for your WordPress Site — my plugin is the first in this great article
- Neue Blogroll, neue Sidebar, neuer Titel(?) — bei Plerzelwupp.de
- Ldn Beta — Growing the Conversation
License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
A Big Thank You
These people helped me a lot during the development of the plugin. So I say thank you to:
- Gianni Diurno, for the Italian translation
- Çağdaş, for the Turkish translation
- Gilly, for testing
- Markus, for inspiring me to use the Google AJAX Feed API
- Tyler Nichols, for the automatic JavaScript-sorting!
- Bruno Bornsztein, for the sorting-algorithm
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Hi, I read the last comment about having the widget and link page. My question is similar – is it possible to install your plug-in twice to have it running 2 separate categories in 2 different sidebars?
I have tried many other blogroll plug-ins but yours is, by far, my absolute favorite. Thank you for creating it!
You don’t need to install the plugin twice. Just install it once and add as many sidebar widgets as you like. Visit the docu section. You’ll find all the necessary information there.
Hey erunafailaro
Thanks for this plugin – i love it!
Sorry to contact you like this but i was looking for a contact form and couldnt find one..
I have created a translation for this plugin in Hebrew
You can download the .po & .mo flies from here:
http://www.sagive.co.il/pt/feedreading_blogroll-he_IL.zip
Keep up the great job
Cheers,
Sagive
Thank you Sagive!
I’ll add your translation to the next version
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I have recently updated my Blogroll, though the new list is not showing on my site. What am I missing? Do I need to update specific files to have the change take place on the widget?
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Hallo,
vielen Dank für dieses tolle Plugin, welches ich schon recht lange nutze!
Inzwischen haben sich bei mir schon sehr viele Links angesammelt, die ich gern als Linkpages auf meiner Seite einbauen möchte. Bin bereits dem wiki- Tut gefolgt & habe eine entsprechende Linkpage angelegt und es funzt auch alles soweit.
Nun zu meinem “Problem”: kann ich mehrere Linkpages für verschiedene Link-Kategorien anlegen & wenn ja, wie mach ich das?
Vielen vielen Dank schon mal im Voraus für Deine Hilfe!
Grüße
Katrin
Hallo Katinka,
mehrere Linkpages für verschiedene Link-Kategorien gehen leider nicht. Was Du aber vielleicht mal ausprobieren könntest:
Es gibt das Plugin amr shortcode any widget. Damit kannst Du Widgets auf beliebigen Seiten einstellen. Du könntest also ein Widget für Links der Kategorie “Designteam” erstellen und es auf eine entsprechende Seite setzen. Für Links der Kategorie “abc” erstellst Du dann ein weiteres Widget und setzt es auf eine andere Seite.
Hoffe, das hilft Dir weiter
Danke für den Tipp Jan, werd ich die Tage auf jeden Fall mal ausprobieren & berichten!
Gruß Katrin
Hab’s heute morgen Ausprobier und funktioniert bestens!!!
Danke nochmals für den Tipp!!
Schönes Wochenende wünsche
Katrin
Das freut mich sehr
Falls Du bei wordpress.org angemeldet bist, wäre ich dankbar für ein gutes Voting meines Plugins unter http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/
Jan