blogintroduction
Shows a thumbnail of a blogroll/linkroll-entry by random
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·10 active installs·Updated 16 years agoAs of April 2026, blogintroduction is a WordPress blog plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle.
0/5Rating
10active installs
3.8K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
This is a widget that brings up a little preview of a site into the sidebar. If you want to use this in a widget-less / static sidebar, give blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin a chance. The link is chosen by random out of the links in the WordPress link-manager. You can specify a single link-category or use all categories for the random-link-base.
You can also decide to show invisible/private links. This is for the case you want to show links as a preview you don’t want to show in the linkroll.
If you want and if there is a description for the link done in the link-description-field it would be shown.
A refreshing via AJAX could be enabled with a specific time (in seconds) when the next thumbnail would be loaded.
This widget uses the websnapr-Service for generating the thumbnail-imag…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.1+ requiredTested up to 2.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
Version 0.3.0:
* Image-Source chooseable
* Fixed issue with image-height
Version 0.2.3:
- Fixed issue with malfunctional refresh
Version 0.2.2:
- Fixed html-output for IE (description-part)
Version 0.2.1:
- Referer-check in AJAX-part implemented
- Output now validates against W3C
Version 0.2.0:
- plugin-internationalization included
Version 0.1.2:
- minimum …
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