Bloggerrolle Kirby Plugin
Thomas has launched a nice new service, he calls it Bloggerrolle, and I just had to write a Kirby plugin for it.
Maybe you already know uberblogr.de, one of, if not the most well-known German web rings. It now hosts over two hundred German blogs, which is really great!
At some point, uberblogr offered the option to send a ping to inform the web ring about new updates on your own site. This led to the idea of implementing something like that as an independent service.
Thomas recently did this, and it’s called Bloggerrolle. The name already includes "blogroll," and it’s not about displaying the latest posts, but rather a list of blogs that have just reported an update.
Essentially, it’s a dynamic blogroll where you can register and then notify it when there’s something new, so you can stay at the top of the list until the next blogs report in.
It’s a great way to discover new blogs and stay updated.
Thomas describes how to ping the site here. The two most common methods are:
- XML-RPC, which can be configured directly in WordPress and likely covers a large number of blogs
- Webhook, which should work in pretty much any other CMS without additional XML libraries or much code
I immediately got to work on integrating the ping into my blog. Since I generally do this as a plugin, simply because the code is better structured that way, I decided to make my code available as a plugin.
So if you use Kirby for blogging, you can install the plugin through the usual methods, and it will automatically ping Bloggerrolle and/or uberblogr when you publish a new page.
Of course, you can also fine-tune it so that not all pages send a ping, for example, your imprint.
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