WP Social Blogroll vs VS Link Manager

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: 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

About With this lightweight plugin you can display a set of links from the Link Manager. The Link Manager is part of WordPress but disabled by default. This plugin will activate it again. Main features of the plugin: Free and lightweight Support for Block Editor and Classic Editor Display your link list with block, shortcode or widget Customize your link list with attributes Documentation at WP plugin page Active support from developer at WP forum With this plugin you can also create a blogroll or link portal in the same way as a link list. How to use After installation go to menu item “Links” and create some categories and links. Links must be assigned to a category. Go to the editor and add the VS Link Manager block or the shortcode [links] to a page. This will display your link list. Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Link Manager widget. Default settings categories: 4 columns when using block or shortode 1 column when using widget 2 columns in small screens Order by name Ascending order (A-Z) Empty categories are hidden Default settings links: Order by name Ascending order (A-Z) All links are displayed Customize your link list with attributes. Attributes You can customize your link list by adding attributes to the block, shortcode or widget. Add custom CSS class to link list: class="your-class-name" Change the number of columns: columns="3" Disable the columns: columns="0" Include certain categories: include="1,3,5" Exclude certain categories: exclude="8,10,12" Display empty categories too: hide_empty="0" Display category description: category_description="true" Change the number of links per category: links_per_category="5" Reverse the order of links: order="DESC" Display links by ID: orderby="ID" Display links in random order: orderby="rand" Hide link title: link_title="false" Hide link description: link_description="false" Change feed label: feed_label="your label" Change the “no categories are found” text: no_categories_text="your text" Example: [links include="1,3,5" category_description="true" links_per_category="5"] When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets. Example: include="1,3,5" category_description="true" links_per_category="5" With the columns attribute you can set the number of columns between 1 and 4. In small screens max 2 colums. You can disable the columns in favour of your own styling. The columns attribute will be ignored when using the block or widget. Because you can set the columns via the block or widget settings. With the “hide link title” attribute you can hide the link title if the link has an image assigned to it. This way you can display the link image only, instead of both. Widget This plugin activates the Links widget again. Because this widget is part of WordPress, plugin has no control over it. You can use the VS Link Manager widget instead. Have a question? Please take a look at the FAQ section. Translation Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs. More translations are very welcome! The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference. Credits Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!