Blogspot – Blogroll showing latest posts

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  sallyrobbo · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 2:34 pm

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  Hi – I’m following a few blogspot blogs (sorry!) and have noticed on one of them that their Blogroll shows details of the last post and when posted which is pretty neat. Are there any plans to introduce this to wordpress or does it exist already and I just haven’t figured out how to do it?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 2:45 pm

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  and I just haven’t figured out how to do it?

  Yes

  Use a RSS Widget in your sidebar or footer

  Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets >> Drag & drop the RSS Widget

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  sallyrobbo · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 2:51 pm

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  Aha – thanks very much for quick reply. I should have realised that wordpress IS the best at this… to my shame :(

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  sallyrobbo · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 3:01 pm

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  Hmm not sure how to do this. Here is the site that I was looking at http://trying-to-write-right.blogspot.com. Does the RSS thing mean that I have to put each individual URL into a separate RSS widget to achieve the same effect? Sorry if I’m sounding a bit thick…..

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 3:07 pm

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  One URL / blog per Widget – but each Widget will display more than one Post from the same blog.

  If you want to have the RSS feed for three blogs you will need to have three RSS Widgets.

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  sallyrobbo · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 3:17 pm

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  Ok, I understand now. That will take me a while to do. Tomorrow me thinks. Many many thanks for your help.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 3:26 pm

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  You be welcome & good luck

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  ancasdiary · Member · Nov 4, 2011 at 5:07 pm

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  I have the same problem as sally has. I want to see the list of my blogroll, with a small picture and the last post.

  My blogroll looks now like a sad list of url files.

  In other blogs, for example blogger, it looks better. Take a look at this one http://irinagazolina.blogspot.com/ which is what I want,

  And now take a look at my sad list http://bulendre.wordpress.com/

  is there any chance to improve mine, without moving my blog?

  thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 4, 2011 at 5:59 pm

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  @bulendre
  I’m sorry but the JavaScript Blogroll widget used on Blogger (blogspot) blogs cannot be used on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. auxclass has pointed to the widgets we can use on our blogs here.

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  ancasdiary · Member · Nov 4, 2011 at 6:25 pm

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  So I have to add an widget for each link? Which one should I use? URSS or URSS link?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 4, 2011 at 6:27 pm

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  @bulendre
  Yes. As auxclass stated above:
  Use a RSS Widget in your sidebar or footer
  Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets >> Drag & drop the RSS Widget
  Widgets » RSS Widget

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  ancasdiary · Member · Nov 4, 2011 at 6:45 pm

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  http://bulendre.wordpress.com/ here is the result, I have added to RSS. I still don’t know do display the pictura. Can you help me to set-up the widget’s properties?

  thanks

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  timethief · Member · Nov 4, 2011 at 7:06 pm

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  Please read this support documentation entry and note that there is no option in the RSS widget configuration for displaying an image.