Title: Good Reads
Author: iamgarrett
Published: <strong>February 20, 2011</strong>
Last modified: March 4, 2011

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# Good Reads

 By [iamgarrett](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iamgarrett/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/good-reads.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/good-reads/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/good-reads/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/good-reads/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/good-reads/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/good-reads/)

## Description

Google’s Blogger tool has a great blogroll gadget, which I’ve always wanted in WordPress.
I tried a few plugins that advertised similar behavior but was never quite satisfied–
so I made my own.

This will grab all your links with a category of ‘sidebar’ and show them in a list
on your sidebar. Specify each link’s RSS/Atom feed address and it will grab the 
latest post, a link, and reorder the list based on when these posts were written.
It only requires that you have jQuery and PHP and uses the Links and Widget section
already included in WordPress.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * A ‘Good Reads’ module in my sidebar with four sites in the ‘sidebar’ category.

## Installation

 1. Upload ‘good-reads.php’ to the ‘wp-content/plugins’ directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Go to the ‘Widgets’ screen in ‘Appearance’ and add ‘Good Reads’ to your Sidebar.
 4. Go to your WordPress’ ‘Links’ and create a category called ‘Sidebar’.
 5. Add this category and the feed URL (in the RSS Address field) to each link you 
    want to appear in ‘Good Reads’.

## FAQ

  Hey! My links wont order themselves by the publish date of their latest article!
What gives!?

 1. Make sure that the feed url is correct in WP.
 2. Make sure you have the widget set to order them by publish date.
 3. Make sure you have jQuery linked in your site’s header.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Good Reads” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ iamgarrett ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iamgarrett/)

[Translate “Good Reads” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/good-reads)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/good-reads/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/good-reads/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/good-reads/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/good-reads/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.5

 * Restructured the way the plugin and widget are built to meet with more recent
   WordPress standards.
 * New widget option: Ordering – Choose to have your links listed by publish date
   or by site title.
 * New widget option: Tabs – Choose if your links open in a new tab or in the same
   tab.

#### 20110218 (1.0)

 * Public release!

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.1.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/good-reads/)
 * Tags
 * [blogroll](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blogroll/)[Blogs](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blogs/)
   [links](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/links/)[rss](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rss/)
   [sidebar](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/good-reads/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ iamgarrett ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iamgarrett/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/good-reads/)

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