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WordPress Randomized Blogroll Plugin
The last weeks I was looking for a plugin that reads my feed subscriptions and outputs a random selection as blogroll on my site. But since I found nothing, I finally did it on my own. So I'm pround to present the version 0.1 of the Randomized Blogroll Plugin. You can download it here. Be sure to read the readme.txt before installing it.
What this plugin basically does is reading an OPML-file containing the feed descriptions, extracting a customizable number of items from it randomly, and displaying them. OPML-files can be exported from nearly every modern feed reader. For performance purposes, the result is cached and only updated after a user defined time.
Have a look at the topic "Blogs I read" in the navigation bar of this site to see the plugin in action.
The plugin was tested with WordPress 1.2.2 on PHP 4.3.8 and PHP 4.1.2 on both Windows and Linux. I don't know how it works with WordPress 1.3 or 1.5, but would be glad if someone would try it out.
Update: I tested the plugin on the most current WordPress 1.5 Alpha and it works. I also did some smaller updates and changed the readme to reflect the WordPress 1.3+ template system.
