Better Blogroll

Version: 3.4

Version : 3.4

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Allows you to display a configurable number of random links from your Wordpress blogroll

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Changelog The Better Blogroll widget for WordPress allows you to display a configurable number of random links from your WordPress blogroll. This should help to combat link blindness while still letting you to share the link love with more of your favorite blogs. Some Features: Links can be sorted randomly, by title, or by rating. The number of links shown is configurable. Categories from which links are shown is configurable. Links can be set to “nofollow” if your links are coming from paid sources. Capable of Displaying XFN Data. Displays image links, text links, or both. Links can be in a single list or separated by category. Can display each link’s category or rating to its right. The description of each link appears in a tool tip. Allows you to show an explanation that the list is a rolling blogroll.

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  • Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
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  • Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
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  • No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found PHP error/s while activating this plugin on our server
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  • No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • Latest PHP 7.2.16 compatible The latest version of the plugin is not compatible with the latest PHP version
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  • Latest WordPress 5.2.4 compatible The latest version of the plugin is not compatible with the latest PHP version
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  • Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
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  • No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
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  • Frequently updated The plugin was not updated at least once in the last 90 days
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  • The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 7.2.16 & WordPress 5.2.4.
  • The database server is MySQL 8.0.15 and the default PHP memory limit is 256MB.
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About Better Blogroll

Description

Changelog The Better Blogroll widget for WordPress allows you to display a configurable number of random links from your WordPress blogroll. This should help to combat link blindness while still letting you to share the link love with more of your favorite blogs. Some Features: Links can be sorted randomly, by title, or by rating. The number of links shown....

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Performance

Memory Usage

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Page Speed

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+ 0.02s
/(front page)
- 0.09s
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 0.02s
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 0.04s
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 0.06s
/wp-admin/index.php
- 0.06s
/wp-admin/media-new.php
- 0.08s
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 0.03s
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
+ 0.05s
/wp-admin/post-new.php
- 0.01s
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 0.09s
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 0.2s
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Memory Usage Memory Usage Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data

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- 12.05KB
/ (front page)
- 8.57KB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 0.17KB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 0.38KB
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 0.31KB
/wp-admin/index.php
+ 0.31KB
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 0.27KB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 0.3KB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 11.43KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 1.15KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 0.3KB
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 0.24KB
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PHP Compatibility Issue

  • The plugin has not been properly activated on PHP 7.2.16. It may not work.

WordPress Compatibility Issue

  • The plugin may not be fully compatible with WordPress 5.2.4.

Frequently Updated

  • The plugin has not been updated in the last 90 days.

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Error Log

We found the following errors while activating the plugin. Read more how WP Hive generates this data.

  • [17-Oct-2019 10:38:04 UTC] PHP Notice: register_sidebar_widget is deprecated since version 2.8.0! Use wp_register_sidebar_widget() instead. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4440
  • [17-Oct-2019 10:38:04 UTC] PHP Notice: register_widget_control is deprecated since version 2.8.0! Use wp_register_widget_control() instead. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4440
  • [17-Oct-2019 10:38:05 UTC] PHP Notice: register_sidebar_widget is deprecated since version 2.8.0! Use wp_register_sidebar_widget() instead. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4440

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