Sidebar widget that links to recent entries from RSS/Atom feeds.
As of April 2026, RSS Blogroll is a WordPress rss plugin with 100 active installations and a 2.3/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: RSS Importer.
I don’t really like Blogrolls, I think they’re often not much more than glorified link dumps. I don’t like how they give you nothing more than the Blog title, and unless that title really grabs your attention, you’re never gonna click it. I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views. In their current format, they just appear to be a great waste of space.
This is why I decided to create the RSS Blogroll plugin. RSS Blogroll allows you to link to your favourite blogs via the latest items from their RSS/Atom feed. Article titles are much more attention grabbing and will deliver much higher quality traffic. We all hate clicking through to abandoned blogs – displaying article…
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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