I installed the Better Blogroll plugin for WordPress tonight. You can see it working in the sidebar.

The plugin enables users to display a configurable number of random links.

I’ve never used the WordPress links feature much, but plan to change that now. I was concerned about creating long blogrolls that nobody would ever read, and which all visitors (including me) would find boring, a waste of space and difficult to use.

This plugin solves the problem by controlling the number of links displayed and making them random.

One problem I encountered is that I don’t use widgets in the sidebar. I’m a WordPress dinosaur who prefers to code the sidebar myself.

It was simple enough to remedy because the plugin author provides PHP code for the blogroll to appear in a page.

It’s a little awkward because you have to set the widget options first and then remove it.

I also had to edit the plugin file to remove references to the title, which would otherwise have been duplicated with the wrong style.

If anyone wants a more detailed explanation they can contact me or comment below.