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. 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:

1. Download the most recent zip-file of this plugin and extract the contents.
2. On your server, where your WordPress-installation is located, delete the contents of this directory: /wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/*
3. Upload all the new plugin-files to this directory (/wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/*).
4. Login to your admin-dashboard and go to the plugin’s options-page.
5. 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:

• Belorussian
• Danish
• English
• French
• Italian
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish
• German

Plugin Homepage

The complete documentation is available at my website.

Support Forum

You will get help at the official WordPress Forum.

Wiki

You can find lots of information at my Wiki