Comments on: WordPress Live Updating Blogroll

By: flosch

flosch — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:53:27 +0000

Since there were no complaints about performance of the site as a whole, I went and made the Live Blogroll the standard blogroll feature on my sidebar. Enjoy!

By: flosch

flosch — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:52:21 +0000

Yeah, that’s because it’s a bit of an ugly javascript hack. You see, as far as I understand it, the list isn’t created server-side. The client asks google for the list, and the javascript sorts it afterwards. That’s why the entries jump around during loading.

It would probably be possible to have a server-side plugin that creates the list, but I haven’t found a plugin for that. If I ever have enough time, I might write one, but I’ve never learned much PHP. I used to be decent at Perl, though, maybe that would help.

And I guess you can’t use it at wordpress.com? Is that a general limitation on plugins?

By: Wilhelm Arcturus

Wilhelm Arcturus — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:37:34 +0000

Me wantee!

I like it. I hope that they introduce this into the WordPress.com hosted blogs.

The only thing I can see is that when you hit the page, it shows the list of blogs and then the articles populated. Blogger caches theirs (or so I would guess) so I never see a similar lag or load up there.

By: flosch

flosch — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:30:35 +0000

Glad to hear it worked. I just was about to comment that I couldn’t reproduce those problems. I just hope the time between your first and second post wasn’t the loading delay of the list, because it’s nice and fast on my side…

As I said, the name is “WP Social Blogroll”. If you have any questions or problems, drop me a mail or comment.

By: Ahtchu

Ahtchu — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:18:07 +0000

WOW. And right after making this comment, the blogroll became alive. Double-checking the blogroll listings against the actual blog’s post would indicate it’s a systems go!

By: Ahtchu

Ahtchu — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:15:01 +0000

This is the *only* gripe that I have with WordPress compared to Blogspot, so if you do manage to find a solution, I’ll be your number 1 fan.
The ‘Experimental Live Blogroll’ does not appear to be working. The list does not have either a increasing nor decreasing pattern in terms of latest post times. Will revisit periodically to see if it ends up working later on.