Advanced Blogroll
Advanced Blogroll Widget displays your bookmarks as you want. You can customize your blogroll. You can add how many widgets you want. You can select the category of your links so that you can seperate your bookmarks in…
Consider an alternative
Advanced Blogroll shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 100+ sites and was last updated 17 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (100+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 17 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 2.8 (latest is 7.1)
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Advanced Blogroll stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| advanced blogroll | #12 |
| blogroll | #63 |
| blogroll widget | #31 |
| widget | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
About Advanced Blogroll
From the official readme · v1.4Description
Advanced Blogroll Widget displays your bookmarks as you want. You can customize your blogroll.
You can add how many widgets you want. You can select the category of your links so that you can seperate your bookmarks in different categories.
Supported Languages
- English
- Turkish
- Russian – Thanks Fatcow
- German – Thanks Sebastian Masch
- Belorussian – Thanks ilyuha
Options
Widget’s options allow you to change your blogroll’s displaying.
Title
Your blogroll’s title on your sidebar.
Category
Category of your bookmarks you want to list.
Order by
What you want to order by
Order
How you want to order
Display Form
How to display your bookmarks. With only names, only images, images and names.
Image Width
Your bookmarks’ image width.
Image Height
Your bookmarks’ image height.
Number of Bookmarks to Show
How many bookmarks you want to show.
Add rel
“nofollow” to bookmarks =
Allows add rel = “nofollow” to your bookmarks.
Installation
Installation
- Download the zip file and extract the contents.
- Upload the ‘random-tags-cloud-widget’ folder or ‘random-tags-cloud.php’ to your plugins directory (wp-content/plugins/).
- Activate the plugin through the ‘plugins’ page in WP.
- See ‘Design’->’Widgets’ to place it on your sidebar. Set the settings.
- If you add the following CSS codes to your style.css, your bookmarks’ images will have a transparent hover effect:
/* Advanced Blogroll CSS */
.ab_images a, .ab_images a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
}
.ab_images a img {
filter:alpha(opacity=60);
-moz-opacity: 0.6;
opacity: 0.6;
border:none;
}
.ab_images a:hover img {
filter:alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity: 1.0;
opacity: 1.0;
}
Changelog
1.4
- Adding Belorussian Language Support
1.3
- Adding German Language support
1.2
- Adding Russian Language support
1.1
- Adding Rating Sort
- Adding link description to link title
1.0
- Plugin released
Screenshots
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FAQ
Advanced Blogroll: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 28, 2026
Is Advanced Blogroll free?
Yes. Advanced Blogroll is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Advanced Blogroll safe to use in 2026?
Advanced Blogroll shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 100+ sites and was last updated 17 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Advanced Blogroll?
Advanced Blogroll is active on 100+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 17,830 times since it launched in December 2008. It was downloaded 96 times in the last 30 days.
Does Advanced Blogroll work with WordPress 7.1?
Advanced Blogroll is officially tested up to WordPress 2.8.4, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Advanced Blogroll last updated?
The latest version, 1.4, was released on August 28, 2009 (17 years ago).
Who makes Advanced Blogroll?
Advanced Blogroll is developed and maintained by yakuphan.
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