How do I populate my blogroll using Bloglines Blogroll Wizard?
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I’d like to populate my WP blogroll using the feed from the Blogroll Wizard at Bloglines, so I don’t have to enter each link individually into my WP blogroll.
This is what Bloglines provides:
Insert the following Javascript code into your blog template.
<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript” src=”http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?id=MY BLOGLINES USER NAME”></script>
If you use PHP or another method to include raw HTML into your blog, use the following URL instead, which returns the blogroll as HTML.
http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=MY BLOGLINES USER NAME
I copied both the javascript and html/url strings Bloglines provides to set that up (and tried both, separately), but when I added either to the web address section of the Add New Link, nothing shows up on the blog.
What am I doing wrong?
TIA.
Annette
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No javascript at WordPress.COM http://support.wordpress.com/code/3/
Do they offer an OPML file? That you can import. http://support.wordpress.com/links/3/
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My guess would be that you could use the second option but you’d need to insert it into a text widget, not the links widget. Try that.
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Despite what it may sound like by the way I’ve worded my support question, I really don’t know anything about how to do this. I don’t know what an OPML file is/does/how to create it/find it (even after reading the info at that link).
I understand that javascript is not allowed (even if I don’t know why or what it is/does).
If I can’t use either of the script/url strings I mentioned in my question, I don’t think I can use Bloglines to populate my blogroll.
A friend who has Blogger uses Bloglines to populate her blogroll and recommended it to me.
So, there’s no way to use it with WP?
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Did you try what I suggested? Take the raw html they provide and stick it in a text widget. I can’t see why that wouldn’t work.
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Hmmm…didn’t work. It shows up as a nonclickable link string drawn out in the sidebar.
Maybe if I try what Diamond suggested for my link category issue… I’ll see if that works to convert the string to html that will show up like my social networking links did in the text widget.
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Nope. No luck. Same problem I originally had when I was trying to paste the string into the text widget. I can’t get any of it to work. =/ I’ve been fighting with it and trying different combinations since my last post saying I was going to try it. Grrrr…
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Just to see if it might be something else, I checked the url string in my browser and it comes up with this error message:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, (email visible only to moderators and staff) and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8b Server at rpc.bloglines.com Port 80I sent an email to Bloglines support. Message says they’ll get back to me in two days. {{{sigh}}}
I guess the problem isn’t with WP… *bangs her head on the keyboard*
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Can you post the code you tried to put into the text widget here so that we can have a look at it. Use backticks either side so that it displays properly as it explains beneath the comment box. (it’s the key next to the 1 on most keyboards).
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Sure. Here it is:
http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=Annette FixMy guess is that the space between my first and last name is the problem, but that was the code the Wizard created and removing the space doesn’t make it work either.
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Thanks, Dev. and Ros. I figured when I saw the error just from rolling it through Firefox that it wasn’t on the WP side. I even tried replacing the space with an underscore and they didn’t work either.
I think the problem originated when I created my Bloglines account and when I entered my user name, out of typing habit, I spaced in between my first and last name. I bet their auto wizard that creates the code isn’t set up to counter/offset that user name configuration.
That happened to me when I uploaded a pdf file to my website CMS and I couldn’t get the download/hyperlink code to work. My CMS guy told me it was because I had spaces in my file name.
Old habits die hard. Maybe I should remove the space bar on my keyboard. ;-)
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But also, that code in itself won’t do anything, I’m afraid, other than appear as a string in your sidebar.
You can make it look neater by using this code:
<a href="http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=Annette Fix">Annette Fix</a>That would allow people to click on ‘Annette Fix’ and presumably be taken to a page where your blogroll is listed, but it’s not going to show as a whole blogroll in your sidebar. I thought they might generate the html code for that for you. It looks to me like you’re going to need to do it manually in any case.
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Ros, I already dressed it up with the code <a href etc. The problem is with the link itself. Just pasted into a browser, it should still show up and it doesn’t. The string itself is bad.
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Okay. But even if you get that working as a link, it’s not going to give you a blogroll in your sidebar, which is what I thought you wanted.
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That is what I want.
I have a friend (my women’s writing website partner) who used the Bloglines Blogroll Wizard (and the same type code) to populate the VERY LONG blogroll at http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/blog.html
So, I know it works–at least for Blogger blogs. I’m just trying to figure out where/what the problem is with getting it to work on WP.
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annettefix, I think you are using the incorrect link. Here is the link you posted:
http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=Annette FixHere is your friend’s link:
http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=WowWonderWomanYours yields an error, but hers yields formatted text.
I think you are using the incorrect Bloglines ID. Maybe try a different username here:
http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=DIFFERENTUSERNAMEHERE -
I don’t know how the system works at Blogger (except that I’m fairly sure they allow javascript which wp.com doesn’t), but I do know that just putting a url (even when you get it to work) into your sidebar won’t create a blogroll. When I suggested that, I assumed that the html you were getting from Bloglines was a fully formatted series of links to the blogs. Without that, then I’m afraid the only way of creating your blogroll is manually.
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ros, apparently it is a “fully formatted series of links to the blog”
Checkout her friends example:
http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=WowWonderWoman
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