Marcus makes WordPress / Google Reader history

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Marcus of acidchaos recently built a widget for WordPress that lets you take the blogs you are subscribed to in Google Reader and put them on your blog as a blogroll.

Actually, Steve Lacey of Google started this on 20% time, but it was not quite easy enough to go mainstream. You had to go to the widget building page, choose colors, copy several lines of code, create a text widget, and paste the code. It got even worse if you had multiple folders you wanted to share because you had to repeat the whole process over again. And since you are sticking them inside text widgets it gets difficult to tell which is which. Note: I had several other text widgets with code in them also.

That’s where Marcus came in. He created a seperate widget specifically for the Google Reader blogroll. All you have to do is paste a link (no code) and then you choose the colors inside the widget. So if you ever change your mind on the color it is easy to switch. The only thing lacking at that point was an easy way to share multiple folders.

I emailed Marcus last night to get his thoughts on adding multiple folders. I honestly expected to have to make the changes myself, (the unwritten rule of open source – you want a feature? write it.) but I wanted to get his thoughts on which way to do it. Four hours later he sent back a reply that he had made the change! Thanks, Marcus!

You can get this really cool widget at: http://blog.acidchaos.de/google-reader-blogroll-widget/

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28 Comments

  1. Branson Computer Repair
    Posted December 7, 2008 at 7:24 am | Permalink

    Awesome! I’ll definitely give this one a try. Thanks!

  2. Ramadena
    Posted December 12, 2008 at 8:14 pm | Permalink

    That is heard so good, but one we must to remind that the widget hoped not too heavy.

  3. carley
    Posted December 16, 2008 at 12:08 am | Permalink

    this sounds interesting.. i might give this one a try..

  4. cebeci
    Posted December 17, 2008 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

    thanks great

  5. Indian web designer
    Posted December 23, 2008 at 9:34 am | Permalink

    Gr8 marcus..its amazing

  6. para
    Posted January 1, 2009 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

    Really cool widget..I downloaded ..Thanks for sharing..

  7. ahmetkayafan
    Posted January 2, 2009 at 12:35 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for this widget..I’ll use it..

  8. emrinho
    Posted January 16, 2009 at 8:24 am | Permalink

    I also started to prepare a widget like this too. But couldn’t find enough time to complete. I want to thank all the people who put effort in it.

  9. Luke Gedeon
    Posted January 16, 2009 at 10:34 am | Permalink

    emrinho,

    I just released my first plug-in recently. It is pretty exciting to give back to the community.

  10. Rize
    Posted January 16, 2009 at 1:09 pm | Permalink

    Really cool widget..I downloaded ..Thanks for sharing..

  11. Luke Gedeon
    Posted January 16, 2009 at 3:00 pm | Permalink

    All,

    I am glad you enjoyed it, and I am thrilled that you stopped for a second to comment! I really appreciate hearing from all of you.

  12. Latterkonsulent Peter
    Posted January 23, 2009 at 2:52 pm | Permalink

    Looks like a cool widget, guess i have to try it out

  13. expandable cordless phone system
    Posted January 25, 2009 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

    All I have read lately is Wordpress is great, great, great from everywhere. I personally use Blogger but am thinking I need to pull my finger out and get involved.

  14. Luke Gedeon
    Posted January 25, 2009 at 9:35 pm | Permalink

    expandable,

    WordPress is great but Blogger is not bad either. I would say, stick with Blogger if you are doing it mostly for friends and family and fun. It is easy and uses the same log-in as the rest of your google stuff.

    WordPress is better if you plan to blog professionally or if you want it to look a certain way. But with great power comes great responsibility. WordPress’ extra features take a little extra time to learn how to use.

  15. Emre
    Posted January 27, 2009 at 2:26 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the article its looks like nice

  16. pop art prints
    Posted January 28, 2009 at 5:54 am | Permalink

    I love wordpress because you can tailor almost anything on it. Im talking .org not .com

  17. Hello,
    Posted January 28, 2009 at 9:10 am | Permalink

    I’m new to bloggong & My blog is about basics of Software Testing,Manual Testing,SDLC,Testing Techniques,Levels of Testing,Types of Testing,Test Planning,Test Execution,Test Development,Bug Tracking,Result Analysis,Test Design Techniques and QTP. so I write about that which I know.Give it a visit if you get a chance..

    feel to free to visit:http://softwaretesting-guide.blogspot.com/

    Regards,

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  18. Historic Places
    Posted February 3, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the tip, I’ll definitely have to check that out for my blog.

  19. Lloydi
    Posted February 5, 2009 at 10:04 pm | Permalink

    You have a good work in creating that widgets. I hope I can put it in my blogger blog http://mixedmasters.blogspot.com

    Thanks for sharing

  20. google çeviri
    Posted February 6, 2009 at 12:58 pm | Permalink

    Thank you, good topic

  21. Google Shadow Bonus
    Posted February 7, 2009 at 4:55 pm | Permalink

    WOW, what a nice widget, I’m going to try it on some of my blogs, thanks.

  22. I Love MLM
    Posted February 12, 2009 at 12:59 am | Permalink

    This wiget is awesome! Need to add it my semiologic wordpress.

  23. Love me
    Posted February 16, 2009 at 5:43 am | Permalink

    Ex widgets! Cool!

  24. The Viewspaper
    Posted February 16, 2009 at 9:08 am | Permalink

    Thanks Marcus. Awesome Widget!

  25. James
    Posted February 20, 2009 at 8:18 am | Permalink

    Here’s one that has a lot more customization over the output:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recommended-reading-google-reader-shared/

  26. St. George homes
    Posted March 24, 2009 at 6:56 pm | Permalink

    Wow, that is really cool! I’ve been on blogger for a long time but I’m thinking that I’m going to have to switch over to WordPress. Plus, I’ve heard a lot of good things about WordPress and Blogger is sometimes frustrating with how structured it is. Thanks for the tip!

  27. Andrew
    Posted July 14, 2009 at 7:14 pm | Permalink

    Wordpress is the only blog platform to use in my opinion. Open source is great for developers and thank goodness we have them. Thanks to Markus for the changes.

    Andrew

  28. Jonnie
    Posted July 16, 2009 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

    I like this idea very much. I will see how it works in a few weeks. Please keep bring up these new systems for all to benefit from.

    Cheers

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