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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
ahh..thank you. I thought is was a text decoration, not a border. Some of your php I am struggling to understand, I was not able to identify the li elements vs. the text elements for date and titles.
I modified the function widget_feedreading_blogroll_style_classic() by including inline styles for those 2 elements. You can see the result on my blog.
Thanks for the plugin!
looks great! But keep in mind that your change might get lost with the next plugin-update.
That is why I recommend to move the css-file to a different directory and set the new path in the plugin’s options.
Further info on this topic: see above – Custom location for stylesheets
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I always get the error …
jQuery(“#feedreading_blogroll_ > li”).tsort is not a function
http://www.pigo.idv.tw/wp-content/feedreading_blogroll.js?ver=1.1.3
line : 15
I always get the javascript error
jQuery(“#feedreading_blogroll_ > li”).tsort is not a function
http://www.pigo.idv.tw/wp-content/feedreading_blogroll.js?ver=1.1.3
line: 15
IE7.IE8,FireFox 3
Hello Pigo,
when I visit your blog http://www.pigo.idv.tw I don’t get any error-messages. My plugin doesn’t even seem to be activated.
I can’t help you, if I am unable to check the error myself. could you please activate the plugin and tell me where it is installed?
Thanks.
sorry jan
I have actived the plugin
please check it
thank q
It’s working with MSIE8 and Firefox3:
Yes it’s working , but it also have javascript error
the snapshot :
http://www.pigo.idv.tw/download-files/error_feed_blogroll.png
What does it say? What language is it? Could be Taiwanese or Mandarin, which are languages I can’t speak or read.
Could you translate it into English, please?
Or is it still the error jQuery(”#feedreading_blogroll_ > li”).tsort is not a function from your first comment?
Yes
the error is the same my first comment
The plugin-directory contains a file called jquery.tinysort.packed.js. Deleted it.
Then, rename the file jquery.tinysort.js into jquery.tinysort.packed.js.
In the end, reload the homepage of your blog and please tell me, if this has worked.
Jan
I just rename the file jquery.tinysort.js into jquery.tinysort.packed.js
And clean all cookies and temp files than reopen browser to try
But it’s still hava error on IE8 & FireFox 3.0.7
firefox snap : http://www.pigo.idv.tw/download-files/error_fx.png
Could you please try the following:
?
Jan
I disable WP_CODE now.
No error now !
Is it WP_CODE bug ?
Hello,
I don’t know if it is a bug, but at the WordPress-forums there a several posts (1, 2) that describe similar problems with WP-CodeBox.
I recommend to upload the original file jquery.tinysort.packed.js to the plugin-directory now.
Jan
Thank you very very much.
I will find other solution to replace wp-codebox.
WA Ha Ha
I fixed the bug.
Maybe codebox include the jquery.js after jquery.tinysort.packed.js
so all jquery object will reinit agian.
I remove the from code-box
now there is no error ^^
This is great!
Also this WordPress-API-function should help: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script
But, it would be up to the plugin-author to fix this.
Jan , thank q
I will post to wp-codebox web.
Jan , Sorry , it’s me again …
I found a problem
U can see the snapshop
http://www.pigo.idv.tw/download-files/error_feed_admin.png
I disable all plugin. but Only feed reading blogroll is actived ,
It has the error.
If i disable feed reading blogroll , but enable other plugin , there is no error.
I test on IE8 and FireFox 3.0 .
Yes, I know about this JavaScript-error. It only occurs on the admin-pages. I havn’t figured out a solution yet.
As it causes no problems, I don’t consider it as high priority at the moment.
I don’t have a quick bugfix for this, sorry.
Because I used deen’s FCKEditor plugn
FCKEditor can’t dispaly some tag image like “wp more” …
If I disable ur plugin , FCKEditor is working good.
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Say sorry again
It’s my problem .. not ur plugin bug
TQ bro,
finally my installation is successful even though i really don’t know and don’t understand why should change to cmod. The best blogroll plug in
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Hi there. I belong to a group of bloggers that maintain by a third party ( crazykinux) Would your plugin allow me to punch in HIS api so that the blogroll would be updated? Forgive me if this wan answered above, in your comments section.
Hello!
I don’t know if I understand your two questions.
Jan
I have tried a number of different ways of configuring this plugin but i have had no luck. The problem seems to be access to the wp-content directory. i have set 777 on the directory and the plugin is still unable to write the file. i have even created the file manually, set it to 777 and tried to rebuil – this also does not work for me. Is there a way to manually create the file?
Regards,
Nathan
As I can see now on your blog, it’s finally working. That’s great!
Hi Nathan,
there is no way to create the file manually. Is there an errormessage or a warning visible on the plugin’s admin-page?
If yes, could you please post the text of it here (or even better: in my forum?)
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Hi, I have translated this plugin to Portuguese (pt_PT).
What is your e-mail address? You can contact me to my e-mail and I’ll send you back the .po and .mo files!
Olá Jorge,
I have added your translations to the language-file. It will be available together with all the other plugin-files as soon as I release a new version of the plugin.
Thank you for your efforts!
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Moin Moin, vielen dank fuer den blogroll plugin. Guck mir den mal an
Gern geschehen. Ich sehe, Du benutzt mein Plugin jetzt auf Deinem Blog.
Freut mich sehr
Ja is auf jeden fall super. hatte zwar mit einem kleinen bug zu kaempfen aber habe einen weg drumrum gefunden.
Was für ein Bug? Kannst Du ihn mir beschreiben? Wenn Du einen Fehler im Plugin gefunden hast, dann möchte ich den gerne beseitigen.
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Thanks for a very nice plugin!
It would be even nicer if links with no feed (static pages for instance) would simply show the title as the normal blogroll, I get a linebreak and a colon which looks a little strange.
Yes, I will wil fix that. For the time being, I would suggest to switch to the Blogger-style. Links with no feed display better with that style.
@Simba: The development-version has been updated and does no longer display the “lone colon”. Could you please check, if this is working for you?
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Hello, I have written a language-file “feedreading_blogroll-sv_SE.po” for Swedish. Do you want to include it, or how do i use it?
/Markus Wallgren
Hej Markus! This is great! Thank you very much! If you could send me the language-files, I would include them in the next version of the plugin.
Until the next version is out, just add the files to the plugin-directory of the blogroll on your server, i.e. yourblog.se/wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/
I have worked thorugh the *.po-file, but what about the *.mo? Is it automatically created or how do I edit?
So I just have to put the translated *.po file in my directory? Where is the choice of language made?
I cant find Your mail-adress. Send me a mail for me to send you the file. /markus
Now I figured it out!
I had a *.mo file generated, and now its working fine in Swedish!!!
I start using it from now on and I will go through the translation once again before I send it to You.
/Markus
correct, you have to make a .mo-file
I am really looking forward to add your translation to the plugin 
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Hi,
I made a French translation :
http://www.fruitmur.ca/wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/feedreading_blogroll-fr_FR.po
I’m having problems though. I use the qTranslate plugin (I have a French and an English version of my blog), and for some reasons the Blogroll is in English on both versions, except for the “Close preview” which is in French on both versions.
I haven’t upgraded to WP 2.8 yet, waiting for qTranslate to be ready for it. I doubt that’s the problem though.
Hi Steve,
thanks a lot for the translation. I was hoping that someone would come up with a French version some day
I don’t use qTranslate by now, so I could not reproduce your problem. But I will look into it and hopefully we will solve this 
Ok, thanks!
On my end, I’ll wait for the next version of qTranslate (which will be compatible with WordPress 2.8.1) before researching this further.
Hi, great plugin!
I have a question, all of my feeds were verified via Google Feed Discovery save one. When I run the url check, the feed that it’s attached to does not be long to the site.
Here’s what I’m seeing:
Web Address: http://nickifrances.blogspot.com/
RSS Address: http://www.alexking.org/blog/wp-rss2.php
Is there away to force fix that?
Thanks!
Hi Stewie!
The URL-check does not show the RSS-addresses of feeds verified by Google Feed Discovery.
If you see the RSS-address it means that you saved this particular rss-address with your bookmark http://nickifrances.blogspot.com/.
Go to the link-admin-section of your admin-dashboard and open this bookmark. I bet that you will find the erroneous rss-address there. You can correct the address there or remove it.
If you remove it, Google Feed Discovery will be used from there on for this bookmark. GFD is not used for a bookmark, as long as it has an rss-address saved at the link-admin-section.