RSS Links Widget
The Happiness Engineers had a great time in London last week. We worked on some cool projects and came up with a lot of great ideas. We’ll bring more updates to you over the coming weeks and months.
One of the items we worked on is a widget we call RSS Links, which allows you to display text and/or image links to the comment and post feeds of your blog.
No need to mess around with HTML in a text widget. Go to Appearance->Widgets in your Dashboard, add the RSS Links widget, configure, and save. For a full explanation of the options, head over to the RSS Links Widget Support document.
We’ve got another highly requested widget in the works. Stay tuned. 
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September 9th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
That’s great! I’ve had people ask me what my blog’s feed was, and I never really liked the “Meta” tab, where it was text, and had irrelevant text to me.
Thanks
September 9th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Thanks for this job.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Great! It was long overdue!
Waiting for another ‘widget in the pipeline!’
September 9th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Badly needed this one.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
thanks for your smart work …
September 9th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Thank you very much!
September 9th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I have no idea what that means (heehee) but thank you so much, I know if I read further I’ll be able to figure it out and use it
September 9th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Ok, that was easy. Thank you!!
September 9th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
fantastic!!!!
September 9th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Great widget and great idea.
Is it possible to use it in a self hosted wordpress blog??
Thank you,
Andrea
September 9th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Sorry, it is only available on WordPress.com at this time.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Wow…! that’s great Nick
September 9th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Not using it (for now) but the widget looks good on the blogs! I’m certainly impatient for the next widget!!
September 9th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
nice thank u
September 9th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Sweet! Curious if it is possible to keep track of the subscriber numbers from the Dashboard…this is the one thing that keeps to me using Feedburner for my RSS feeds…if not no biggy, but it would be cool. Keep up the great work!
September 9th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
It is not possible to keep track of subscriber numbers.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
great, I think it’s very useful.
I’m so excited about what’s coming next you have no idea!!
thanks a lot, blogging here is so much fun!
September 9th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Mh, it doesn’t seem to work on Sandbox blogs?
September 9th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
This is because Sandbox declares it’s own widget of the same name. We’re looking into a way to have both available for the theme while not causing problems for anyone using the Sandbox version of the RSS Links widget.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
thank you
September 9th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
This is really a super cool, easy way to get those Feeds into our blog’s sidebar. Thanks so much! Now I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we’ll be seeing a return of Subscriber Stats to go along with it.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
thanks, nice work …
September 9th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
This is an excellent idea and complements, in my view, the design provided by the Gravatar widget.
Congrats!
Greetings from Brazil. ; )
September 9th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Good work Nick and thanks for helping
September 10th, 2009 at 12:14 am
I liked the visual icons of the feed of the psot and comments, I could get the link of them please?
September 12th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Once you add them, view the sidebar, right click on the image, and select copy image location.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:17 am
Oh this looks so pretty! Can’t use it though since iNove theme already has a built in feed button…
September 10th, 2009 at 12:40 am
genial idea, gracias
September 10th, 2009 at 1:42 am
I need it very much guys. Thank you!!
September 10th, 2009 at 2:45 am
this is very good but iI use feedburner and dont need this .
September 10th, 2009 at 3:19 am
Thank you, = )
September 10th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Thank you..finally:)
September 10th, 2009 at 10:46 am
excellent!
I am currently using it on my blog. and it works!
September 10th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Great, but I allready have it
With the text widget.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Great, keep up the good work
September 10th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
thank you
September 10th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
excellent!
September 10th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
This doesn’t seem to allow multiple types and versions of feeds – is that correct? Atom for example.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Correct. It is only the RSS feeds.
September 10th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Thank goodness! :0)
September 10th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Great job!
September 10th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Thank you very much. The great work
September 11th, 2009 at 4:37 am
What a teaser! What the heck is the widget coming up?!
September 12th, 2009 at 1:13 am
You’ll have to wait and see.
September 11th, 2009 at 5:53 am
Thanks, WordPress.com staff for this timely release. As usual, great work!
September 11th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Good Job , thanks a lot
September 11th, 2009 at 10:37 am
great work thank u
September 11th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
This is great news. Keep up the good work!
September 11th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Initially I was confused about RSS and took a year to figure it out! Wish this had been there earlier, but I think its a great move! Congrats.
September 11th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Great! Thank you!
September 11th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Excellent job of keeping my reader, Thank you.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:23 am
I’m wondering if incorporating the ability to assign links to the RSS Links is what you have in mind. I use FeedBurner, as I think some others have mentioned here. If that’s what you’re doing next, I’d love it. I made my own using a Text widget, but I’d use yours if I could customize it more. In any case, thank you and all the WP team for all the wonderful work you do. I love WP!
September 12th, 2009 at 3:46 am
I really love this feature, but it there any way to incorporate the rss images into themes that do not have a white background? I use a theme with a black background color… so I get nice white outline around each image. Using transparent edges would solve this.. or conversely you could be able to select what your background color is (and have multiple images on the server). Just a suggestion obviously. Great work I do love it and will use it.
September 12th, 2009 at 10:38 am
WordPress.com is Delicious! Thank goodness!
September 12th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Many many thanks for this good looking widget
September 12th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Wow!! nice discovery,keep it up!
September 12th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Great I will activate it .
September 12th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Great thanks. It’s easier to perform on my blog.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I would love a Tweet This widget, personally. can you make that one next?
September 12th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Thank you very much tim WordPress
September 13th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Thanks for this cool widget.
September 13th, 2009 at 9:51 am
I’m cool heels, when WP.com represent an automatic music widget?
September 13th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
thanks wrdpress
September 13th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
it would be nice if it can be fed to facebook
September 13th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Was using the text HTML before this, now this is something very useful. Thanks.
September 13th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Brilliant
September 13th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
thx u so much for this job… that great
September 13th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
This looks most interesting. Being I am an author, I intend to try your …Write A Book…shortly. I will start with a short story….just to see if I can apply all your given instructions, which are most clear. Thank you so much. Peggy Inez
September 14th, 2009 at 3:46 am
Great work guys!
in an authorized way.
RSS is one the best methods of showcasing someone else’s data
I’m sincerely awaiting more great gadgets from your side.
Thumbs Up!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:58 am
superbe…!!!!
September 14th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Its great and must try, thanks a lot
September 14th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I’m using Mistylook theme and it has an RSS feed subscribe button at the top of the page. This new widget sounds more versatile. Is it redundant to use both?
September 14th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Thanks – great to have this
September 14th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Thanks so much for this widget.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Thanxs 4 great post, I try than work in good.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Lol! Awesome! Thanks WordPress team – you guys are really great! You have the best support team I have seen out of any sites like this!
September 15th, 2009 at 1:19 am
Its a great jb done !!
Thanks a lot.
September 16th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Hoping for a mobile-optimized link some time soon. This is a good addition though.
September 16th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Is there a way to view your subscibers (or at the very lease how many you have)?
October 19th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Sorry, there is not.
September 16th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
That was the only thing that made blogger better than wordpress as far as seo goes.. mind you i much prefer self hosted wordpress to on wordpress.com because you cant install widgets like seo and stuff on wordpress.com blogs.. but the script used on your own server is the biz!
i use wordpress for all my sites now. (and i own quite a few)
September 17th, 2009 at 3:12 am
Wonderfuloso! lol…i mean wonderful! =D
September 17th, 2009 at 4:35 am
sounds interesting
September 17th, 2009 at 4:41 am
I must admit that I still do not understand RSS. I understand that it’s a good idea, so I’m sure this is a good addition to the WordPress toolkit, but don’t know how to read what I subscribe to.
September 17th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Solid option facility of RSS links – the much needed one indeed. Hope it accelerates the access and tracking in a seamless manner. Thanks.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Thank a lot! Grazie mille!
September 17th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Wow I luv it! Thanks Guys!
September 18th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Excellent information
September 18th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Great job, keep up the good work!
September 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
cool… love it…
September 19th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
thank
September 19th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Well, I appreciate any help to my blogsite here at WordPress. I am coming from the Ice-ages so all kinds of help is gratefully received!
September 20th, 2009 at 5:23 am
This is really cool stuff
September 20th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Ok! thanks, my frends will use it
September 21st, 2009 at 12:55 am
great, i will use it
September 21st, 2009 at 5:35 pm
thank you
September 21st, 2009 at 5:37 pm
thanksfor your widget
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:26 am
Awesome! Thank you
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:52 am
That‘s fine ~ Thanks a lot
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Thank you, I’m definitely using this.
Is it possible to make the background of the feed icons transparent? Currently the corners are white which is okay for themes which have a white background but mine is a charcoal grey theme so the corners on the icon stick out noticeably.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
That’s cool looking forward to other developments soonest … thanks a lot
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Thank you Nick for the announcement. Thank you wordpress for adding one more powerful feature.
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Thank you very much for this! It’s an amazing widget. From the picture it seems that you had a great meeting!
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:08 am
Great widget & great idea.
Thanks a lot