I wrote the Better Blogroll WordPress Widget because I wasn’t very happy with the inflexible way that Wordpress handles blogrolls. Instead of displaying an endless list of links like WordPress’s default Links widget, Better Blogroll focuses your readers attention by displaying a random, rotating subset of your links from your blogroll. To provide your readers with a better idea of what they are clicking, the category of each link can be displayed to its right. I added a couple of features to this release that should make it even more useful.

Version 2.5 now allows you to use image links, text links, or both, and will pay attention to the “target” attribute as set in the WordPress Link Manager. It also includes the ability to set blogroll links to “nofollow”, so it could technically be used as a rudimentary ad rotator.

More information about the widget and how to download it can be found on my Better Blogroll Widget for Wordpress Page.

Take it for a test drive and get more out of your blogroll.

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