When I originally put together this page I hacked together a makeshift set of blogroll pages rather than have the list taking up space in the side bars. It worked surprisingly well considering that my PHP knowledge is basically nonexistent. But it’s always had some issues. Among other things, it’ll randomly decide to just not load this or that feed. And when that happens that entire webpage disappears from the blogroll. Since this leaves me with no way to tell what the problem is (did a link change? is the RSS down? ) its not cool.
I’ve wanted, for a while, to find a better way to do it, but none of the WordPress blogroll plugins seemed to do what I wanted. Then yesterday I found a plugin by the name of YARSS (Yet Another RSS plugin). Had a minor spot of trouble getting it going, but the guy who programmed it in the first place included his email in the readme and was kind enough to respond to my emails and help me figure out the coding problem. Thanks Alex!
So I’ll be switching those blogroll pages over to the new format over the week or so. Not sure if anyone besides me actually uses them, if so, be patient with me as I fiddle.
And if anyone reading this is looking to build an RSS feed, either as a page, or as a widget, I can recommend YARSS. Although you can customize quite a bit by fiddling with the code, you don’t have to in order to use it.