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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 the languages mentioned below. 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
- Catalan, thanks to Oscar
- Danish, thanks to Georg
- Dutch, thanks to Rene
- English
- French, thanks to Steve
- Hungarian, thanks to Bene Istvan
- 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
Hi,
ich find die Plugin-Idee und Umsetzung ziemlich klasse. Werd das Plugin sicherlich die Tage mal installieren und ausprobieren. 😉
Wünsch Dir einen schönen Sonntag Abend.. Fussball ist ja gleich 😉
liebe Grüße,
Chris
Danke Chris! Würde mich über Feedback freuen 🙂 Falls irgendwelche Probleme auftauchen, einfach hier wieder melden 🙂
Hi 😉
klar, das mach ich dann – werd aber erst Morgen dazu kommen leider. Melde mich aber dann sicherlich 😉
liebe Grüße und schönen Montag
Chris
great work!
never trust a plugin that isnt used personally by the author
@ Ali: Why do you say that? I’m using the plugin in my sidebar. Take a look at it here.
Can’t you see it?
Hello Jan,
thanks so much for your awesome plugin!
It works like a charm 😉
All the best
Gianni
I like the plugin so far but a changelog would be nice 😉
Jan – that is exactly the plugin I’m looking for since quite some time!
But does it doesn’t seem to work – or does it need a “start-up time” to read the most recent feed-items of my blogroll bookmarks?
Please check @ http://absolutelybangkok.com
On the bottom of the Left Sidebar I got your plugin – near the bottom of the Right sidebar is the normal Blogroll.
What’s going on?!
Hi Dan,
yes, I see it takes quite some time to load on your site …
I have just checked your API-Key. It seems to be invalid. Please generate one for this URL: http://absolutelybangkok.com/.
Danke Jan, gemacht, neuen API-Key gelöst. Wie kann man prüfen ob der ok ist?
Zeigt noch immer die “normale” Blogroll an, mal schauen, ob’s jetzt funktionieren wird …
Guten Morgen,
installiert, template tag gesetzt.. und klappt richtig klasse. prima plugin und nützlich finde ich. 10 punkte 😉
schönen tag!
Chris
@Lazy: wo hast Du die Blogroll denn laufen? Kannst Du mal die URL posten? Auf Deinem Blog finde ich die FR-Blogroll nicht 🙁
@Dan: Which browser are you using?
Am using Safari.
Hi Jan,
erstmal “nur” auf ZoraThek.de (unten rechts, bei “link” mach ich den Tag noch rein heute); mein Blog wird nach dem Zahnarzt-Termin heute noch folgen, mir gefällts sehr gut, endlich sieht man, ob die Links aktualisiert wurden 😉
liebe Grüße
Chris
@Dan: please come to the forum. That’s the better place for problems like this 🙂
Tks Jan – link to the forum’s topic broken, can you please check?
@Lazy: Freut mich! Du bist der Erste, bei dem ich das Plugin in Aktion sehe (abgesehen von mir selbst natürlich).
bitte, gern doch 😉
hier ( http://www.pc-reviews.de/links ) ist es nun auch im Einsatz und klappt auch prima mit dem Feed eines SMF Forums anscheinend 😉 Mit dem RSS Feed eines wbb2`s nicht, aber liegt am feed, keine update time drin, schätz ich – den muss ich wohl mal bearbeiten. 😉
@ Josh~: Good idea, there is now a change log.
I love this plugin! I wish all plugins were so easily configurable. I keep getting an “error on page” message on the lines for the jQuery and where the title attribute is set, and unfortunately I’m not experienced enought to fix it, but I love this plugin!
The widget is awesome. But I would like the most recent post to display at the top, and the oldest at the bottom. Which option does this. If any?
Thanks Pete. Unfortunately, I havn’t yet figured out how to implement this kind of sorting. It is not available with the current version of the plugin.
Hi Jan,
I would very much like the posts to be sorted by last update. So I decided to do things the open source way 🙂
Ok, I had a look at your code… currently you use WordPress to do the sorting, but sorting according to date requires fetching the dates live, then sorting the array based on those values.
I’ve written a javascript function for you that will do that. Though I’ve just spent a while faffing around trying to insert it into your code, but that would just end up being a dirty hack.
You can download the function here. As you can see, it’s actually a very simple function, so hopefully it won’t be too hard to integrate into your (very fantastic!) widget if we work together.
Let’s say we’re creating a new sort option called “mostrecent”.
I reckon that, in your current version, at line 536 you simply test to see if the sort option is “mostrecent”, if not, then you execute your current line 536 and let WordPress handle the sorting as your currently doing. But if it is “mostrecent”, then you call my javascript function (using some php/javascript fusing sorcery).
Bugs that will appear are anywhere else in your code where you pass your widget’s sorting option to WordPress… if “mostrecent” is chosen, then it doesn’t matter how WordPress sorts the bookmarks, as long as it’s not passed an invalid variable.
You’ve got my email. Please get in touch, and let’s make this happen!
Pete
Hi Pete,
this looks very encouraging. Thank you very much. I will figure out, how to merge this into the plugin-code.
Jan 🙂
Jan,
Great, can’t wait!
As I said, email me if there’s anything I can help with, or if there’s any problems with the function I wrote.
Pete
Really wish there was a way to sort them after date.
I’m still trying to get this kind of sorting to wokr … but it is difficult. Every new way I am trying turns out to be a dead end 🙁 d’oh
Hi,
I just translated Feed reaading Blogroll into Turkish, but I couldn’t find your e-mail adress in the site. Please mail me so that I can send you the .mo and .po files.
Reg.
Cagdas