WP Social Blogroll
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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.
Download
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
- English
- French, thanks to Steve
- 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
- 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
That did it!!
Much thanks!!
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Hello,
Congrats, nice plugin!
I’ve read the hole manual, and the forum, and this page.
I can’t make the portuguese language work.
I just throught the archive feedreading_blogroll-pt_PT.mo inside the …/feed-reading-blogroll/ folder, and nothing happens.
Please help. I spend already 2 hours trying.
You have to put the file inside /wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/lang.
Furthermore you have to set your blog to Portuguese, put this line into your wp-config.php
define ('WPLANG', 'pt_PT');If you prefere Brasilian Portuguese use this line:
define ('WPLANG', 'pt_BR');and rename the file to feedreading_blogroll-pt_BR.mo
Further reading: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language
first of all, very nice plugin.
now, i’m using wordpress 2.9 and i noticed a weird behavior when i added my romanian translation after i made all the settings i wanted for the plugin.
the last update messages in the blogroll were still in english (e.g. 2 hrs ago). in the administration view i could see the translations.
in order to work i had to uncheck Show update-information and recheck it. this was pure dumb luck to stumble upon this work-around
waiting for the fix
The JavaScript had to be rebuild after you added the translations. this happened when you changed the settings. There will be no other workaround — changing the settings is the workaround.
That’s so great!
Thank’s a lot!
Best Regards from Brazil!
What’s the URL of your blog? I would love to see my plugin in action on your site
I’d like to take a feed reading blogroll like this and send the data to a separate links page, instead of a widget. Can I do that with this?
thanks
jc
Yes. How to do this is described in the wiki
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Hi,
I’m trying to use the widget in a cusmotized place, using feedreading_blogroll(), but it shows without any parameters that I set in the options menu. So where do I find the parameters to put inside the ()?
thanks!
There are no parameters to put inside (). The plugin is completely configured via its options-page.
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This is a fantastic plugin, thanks very much for writing it. One quick question: when I place it in my sidebar it causes my footer to float slightly to the left and become off-center. Do you have any idea why that might be or if there’s a way to edit the file to correct it? Thanks again for everything.
It is hard for me to give an answer to your question as I am unable to have a look at your blog. I might get an idea to solve your problem if you could post the URL of your blog.
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Hi, I love your blogroll plugin, but I really have to make it nofollow even in the home, its a very specific case. But I need like this.
What should I do to have this option chosen?
Thanks a lot, please answer!
Best regards from brasil
Got to the link-manager of your blog and open the link there. Then go to the section labeled ”Link Relationship (XFN)” .
There you will find an input-field named “rel:”. Enter
nofollowand save your change.Your link is now tagged as nofollow.
Thank’s a lot! Now it’s perfect! Sorry I didn’t see your answer before! =)
Nice plugin! I have a suggestion/comment.
I want to create a Blog Network wordpress blog. I was looking at this plugin and it seems perfect for it. Only thing this plugin is for the sidebar not for the main page itself. Is there anyway this feature can be added? I can have a grid of blogger feeds on a page. and it updates the latest one..same like this one..and moves it to the top. This feature would be awesome!
Thanks!
This feature is already available and is described in the wiki: How to create a linkpage
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I like your plugin but I am even more intrigued by the one on the left hand side of your page that has all those social network buttons. Any idea where I could get a hold of that one? Thanks.
That’s the Cute Profiles plugin
Thanks a lot
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I’ll start of with, nice plug-in!
Just one question. Is there a way to add a sort of default title for the newest post title if no title exists? So I don’t just get an empty box that links to their newest post.
There is no way to do this with version 1.5.4. An update to the plugin would be necessary.
However, in your case there was a post with an empty title? The rest of the feed was valid, i.e. all other posts had non-empty titles? Or was the whole feed invalid?
Either way, the problem is, that the feed is incomplete on the bookmark’s side. I don’t know if it is a good idea to adjust the plugin to deal with all kind of errors coming from external sources …
But I promise you that I’ll look into it. Could you please post the URL of the blog with the empty-title-post?
No problems with the feed or anything like that. It’s just that I got a friend that never use titles for their posts. So I would be nice to have a sort of fall back title if the post doesn’t have a title of their own.
Here’s the URL for her blog
http://cruxus.blogspot.com/
Hello,
i have translated this plugin but don’t have email or contact info of any concerned person for this.
can you please contact me so that i can discuss it further to get the language added to your plugin.
Hi Ashish,
you will find my contact-email here.
Hallo, ich bekomme immer eine Fehlermeldung, wenn ich das Plugin aktiviere:
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\inetpub\blog_anja\wp-content\plugins\feed-reading-blogroll\feedreading_blogroll.php on line 2569
Kannst du helfen?
Hallo Anja,
ich habe Dir eine E-Mail geschickt. Bitte melde Dich, falls weiterhin fragen offen sind.
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Hi… I’m Chocky, just want to say Thank You! It works and it’s very useful plugin…
Keep up the good work!!
regards from Indonesia.. ^^
-Chocky
You’re welcome! Thanks for dropping by