New and improved WordPress OPML Blogroll widget
October 9th, 2006 11:50:50 am pst by 
Sterling Camden
Thanks to some suggestions from Sergio Longoni, this morning I whipped up version 1.1 of the opml-blogroll widget for WordPress.
New features include:
- OPML auto-discovery link tag added to the “head” section of your page automatically (Sergio provided the code).
- You can suppress the OPML image and link by unchecking a new option “Link to OPML?” which is checked by default when upgrading.
- If you keep the OPML link, I’ve added the new semi-standard OPML icon.
- Closed the “img” tag for the RSS icons for XHTML compliance (oops).
Suggestions for future enhancements:
- Sergio suggested adding more control over how items are displayed. For instance, he would prefer “li” tags instead of a table. I’m going to give that some thought, but perhaps I could include options for prolog, epilog, pre-item, post-item, etc. and let you control the HTML.
- The Dead 2.0 skeptic (who appears to have been hammered out of the blogosphere by the traffic surge incumbent upon his identity intrigue) suggested a while ago that I add some form of paging, so that only the first N items would be displayed unless the user took some action.
What do you think of these suggestions? Got any more?
UPDATE: Latest version here.
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Suggestion: give the possibility to show only N random links from your blogroll, cache the chosen N links for M hours so that they don’t change at every reload.
[I have 250 blogs in my blogroll and I don't want to show them all always in the sidebar]
Great plugin by the way!
Good suggestion, paolo. I’ll consider adding that in the next version. Grazie!
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Slowfinger e-mailed in:
Sounds like a great idea. I’ll plan to include this when I get time to do a new version. Thanks, Slowfinger.
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Great Widget, i really need it
Glad you like it, daaan.
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hello people!!! i have a problem with my wp, i want to show always the sections blogroll and categories, now this sections only appears when i login, but i want show this sections for all users, registered or not.
Sorry my english, is not my mattern language, i hope you can help me!!!
Thank You!!!!!!
Sounds like you need to modify your theme to display your whole sidebar all the time. If you can post your web address here, I’ll take a look at it.