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WP Social Blogroll
WP Social Blogroll adds a social blogroll to your blog. It will follow and display all updates of the sites in your blogroll.
The facts
- Rating
- 2★ from 3
- Active installs
- 200+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 14 Oct 2013
- Added
- Jun 2008
- Requires WP
- 3.0
- Tested up to
- WP 3.6.1
- Downloads
- 68,530
Our analysis
AI-assistedWP Social Blogroll is a WordPress plugin that adds a social blogroll to your blog, allowing you to follow and display updates from sites in your blogroll. It retrieves the most recent feed items from bookmarked sites using Google’s AJAX Feed API, which does not require an API key. The plugin sorts bookmarks by freshness and can display the title and author of the latest post along with an icon for each bookmark.
This plugin is suitable for bloggers who want to keep their audience updated with the latest content from their favourite sites. It is particularly useful for those who want to enhance their blogroll with dynamic content updates.
Best for: Bloggers looking to enhance their blogroll with live updates from other sites.
What it does well
- ✓Displays updates from sites in your blogroll
- ✓Sorts bookmarks by freshness
- ✓No Google API key required for functionality
- ✓Supports multiple languages
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in October 2013
- •Low rating of 2 out of 5
- •Limited active installs at 200
- •Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1
Verdict
WP Social Blogroll offers basic functionality for displaying updates but has not been updated in several years, which may affect its compatibility and reliability.
From the developer
Erunafailaro's own description of WP Social Blogroll, lightly tidied.
WP Social Blogroll adds a social blogroll to your blog. It will follow and display all updates of the sites in your blogroll. See the plugin page or the author’s page for more details.
See this screenshot for example.
The plugin retrieves the date of the most recent feed-item of the bookmarked site. The feeds must be indexed by Google as the plugin uses Google’s free AJAX Feed API.
You no longer need a Google API Key to get it to work. If you own an API key, you can use it. But providing a key is optional.
Based on Google’s information, the age of the most recent feed-item is calculated and then displayed under each bookmark in your sidebar.
Your blogroll can be sorted by the freshness of the bookmarks.
Furthermore, the title and author of the freshest post and an icon for each bookmark can be displayed.
Get more info at the development blog (feed).
Upgrading
You are encouraged to use the plugin-upgrade-function that WordPress is offering.
However. if you would you are preferring a manual upgrade, follow these steps:
- Download the most recent zip-file of this plugin and extract the contents.
- On your server, where your WordPress-installation is located, delete the contents of this directory:
/wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/* - Upload all the new plugin-files to this directory (
/wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/*). - Login to your admin-dashboard and go to the plugin’s options-page.
- Click on the JavaScript-tab and push the rebuild-button to generate a new JavaScript-file on the server.
That’s it 🙂
Language Support / Translations
This plugin supports different languages. Check the language section on my homepage for details. If you want to contribute with your own translation, feel free to contact me. I’d be delighted to add it to the plugin.
With the current version these languages are available:
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