An ordered blogroll widget for your sidebar that displays your favorite blogs, what they're writing, and when.
As of April 2026, Good Reads is a WordPress rss plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: RSS Importer.
Google’s Blogger tool has a great blogroll gadget, which I’ve always wanted in WordPress. I tried a few plugins that advertised similar behavior but was never quite satisfied – so I made my own.
This will grab all your links with a category of ‘sidebar’ and show them in a list on your sidebar. Specify each link’s RSS/Atom feed address and it will grab the latest post, a link, and reorder the list based on when these posts were written. It only requires that you have jQuery and PHP and uses the Links and Widget section already included in WordPress.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.1.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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