blogsiread
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Displays user-definable content from other blogs (via wordpress Links [RSS]) as a widget in your blog in a highly customisable format.
blogsiread is a highly customisable widget inspired by Blogger’s « Blogs I Read » function that takes excerpts from other blogs (via Links) and displays them in a small widget on your blog.
Features
- Change widget title
- Automatically selects blogs from « Links » based on « Categories »
- Optional – Show Site Title (either from link name or meta tags)
- Optional – Show Post Title
- Optional – Show Post Excerpt (250 characters max, plain text)
- Optional – Order listing by « as ordered in Links page », Post Published Date, Link Name, Site Title, Post Title. All can be additionally sorted in descending or ascending order.
- Clicking on entries can open in a new window or in the same window
- You can customise your widget by adding a css class.
TODO
- More customisable layout
- Limit total entries and more importantly, before loading their xml-s
- Complete or co-operative ajax to reduce server load and more importantly, page loading times
- Make the category selector look pretty
- Allow customisable Post Excerpt character limit
- Do that cool thing where the widget title in the admin page is « blogsiread: «
For those who are using a custom CSS Class, structure of widget content is as follows (some lines may not be displayed at all depending on widget options – see #): <p class= »yourCustomClassName »> # <a rel= »sitetitle »….</a> OR if site url is blank: <span rel= »sitetitle »……</span> # <a rel= »posttitle »….</a> OR if post url is blank: <span rel= »posttitle »……</span> # <span rel= »desc »>…CONTENT…</span> <span rel= »timeago »>…TIME…</span> </p>