Comments on: Create a Dynamic Blogroll with Google Reader

By: Paul Filby

Paul Filby — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:09:39 +0000

Bob, I’ve now put a warning at the head of this article, indicating that it’s out of date.

Unfortunately, Google removed the original RSS sharing functions from Reader, so it’s no longer possible to generate a dynamic blogroll for your site as originally described. You could use the “bundle” feature within Reader to do something very similar, but the blogroll generated won’t be dynamic.

By: Paul Filby

Paul Filby — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:25:43 +0000

Thank you for your comment Bob.

I can see now that I need to rewrite this article following some quite substantial updates to Google Reader.

It may be that this type of sharing from Reader is no longer possible, but I’ll look into it, and drop you a line once I know more.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:15:44 +0000

I am not seeing “add a blogroll to your site” link as shown in this post. Google has changed the interface of its Reader. Is there a way I can get around this?

By: Richard Openshaw

Richard Openshaw — Mon, 30 May 2011 21:43:54 +0000

Hi,
Great tool. Just one quick question; I have seen other sites using this and the bl;ogroll displays recent posts from their selected blogs. Mine is only showing the blog title. Am i doing something wrong?

Cheers,

Rich

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By: Paul Filby

Paul Filby — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:36:32 +0000

Hi Matt, and thanks for your question.

As we’re limited to working with the code that Google Reader sends back, this has to be done using CSS. There’s a “target-new” property in CSS3 that’ll do what you want.

You need to create a new rule (for example, “{target-new: window}”, or “target-new: tab”), and apply it to the appropriate selector. You’ll need to add this rule to your theme’s style sheet (or, better, to the child theme’s stylesheet — then this change won’t get lost when you upgrade your theme).

I don’t have time just now to experiment and confirm the exact line of CSS you need to add, but I’ll take a look and comment with more detail when I can.

By: Paul Filby

Paul Filby — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:24:48 +0000

Thanks @NerdyNurse — glad it was useful for you!

By: The Nerdy Nurse

The Nerdy Nurse — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:21:45 +0000

very helpful!

Using this now for my blogroll!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:47:54 +0000

Hey cool, just did it and wondered if you know how to force the links to open in a new tab or window, they currently open in the same window.
Great post!

By: Paul Filby

Paul Filby — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:16:57 +0000

Thank you for your comment Robert. I’m sorry this doesn’t appear to be working for you. I should have some time soon to take a look at this, and see if I can work out what the problem is. I’ll comment again then

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:42:11 +0000

Thanks for your support.
I followed your instructions to add a dynamic blogroll to my blog. I copied the code and pasted into the Text widget in my wordpress, but every time I save it, it just disappears and in the blog only remains the title, with nothing else.
I would also like to know if the blogroll can have the first paragraph of the last post besides the title of the blog.
Thanks

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By: Paul Filby

Paul Filby — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:57:54 +0000

Hi Asceta,
Are you definitely choosing “add a blogroll to your site” from the “Folders & Tags” tab when you’re setting this up? If you’re choosing “add a clip to your site” instead, this will include a (variable) limit on the number of posts that are shown.

I’ve just checked my code again, and with the “add a blogroll to your site” option, all posts are shown.

Hope that helps,
Paul.

By: asceta

asceta — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:03:53 +0000

Your idea is just a piece of genius, although I’ve got one problem.

When I’m making a script in Google Reader I see only 5 top links, with a bottom link ‘see more‘ (“Wyświetl wszystko” in Polish).

What should I do to get a full list of links instead of 5 links + ‘see more’?

Asceta