Live Blogroll will make your blogroll livelier. It will show a number of 'recent posts' for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax.
When the user hovers the mouse above the link, RSS feed from the site is automatically discovered and a number of recent posts is shown dynamically in a box.
Live Blogroll uses internal caching for feed discovery and WordPress caching for RSS feeds to make sure everything is smooth.
The looks of the hover box are fully customizable with CSS, and the position is editable in the options.
Live Blogroll in action
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Installation & Usage
1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
3. Use the Options page to change your options
Frequently Asked Questions
You can address all plugin questions in the forum.
How does it work?
Live Blogroll uses Ajax to dynamically retrieve lasts posts sites in your Blogroll. The posts are then displayed in a popup hover box.
Live Blogroll will first try to search for RSS feed link supplied in your blogroll data. If not found it will load the target page and try to autodiscover the feed. If found this feed will be filled in to your blogroll entry for later faster access.
Live Blogroll does not show a preview for some of my sites, why is that?
The site may not have the RSS feed listed in it's HTML. Or simply it is unavailable at the moment.
Change log
v0.5
- Security update
v0.4
- Fixed IE7 compability issue
v0.3
- Added configurable window offsets
- Added length of post exceprt option
v0.2:
- Initial release
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Hi! My name is Vladimir Prelovac. I am a computer engineer by profession and an adventurer by state of mind.
56 Comments
Hi!
this was a wonderful plugin. Exactly what I deemed of. But there it lacks, cant it be made an optional for a page. If a user wishes he can add it as a page, rather in sidebars..pLEASE help me out.
Do you think, Wladimir, the plugin can be improved to be used in blogs that are not in English?
Example: ¡µï¼š
Great job on the plugin, its 99.9% of what I was looking for. My only problem is I need a way to add some space between link categories. Presently I have two categories Blogroll and Forums. The last link in the blogroll category is right on top of the Forums title, how can I add some padding. I'm new at WP and not sure if this needs to be added to the theme/style.css or to some widget file.
Great plugin, however with 2.7 when my mouse leaves the link, the link disappears until I refresh the page. Also, getting it to work with Advanced Blogroll OR having the option of showing the latest RSS feed item under the link would be ideal, like the blogspot blogroll.
Hi
I think this is a great plugin and also easy to adjust in terms of design.
I have one question though :)
Is it possible for the plugin to pull out the feeds all in one place IE take the latest post from whichever blog in your blogroll was updated last and take the rest of posts after it one by one from all the other blogs in blogroll again depending on the date they were published?
Any answer much appreciated.
Best Regards
thank you....
ibonette