Synchronize wordpress blogroll with google reader
I updated my blogroll, at last. When I started this blog, I added a few blogs that I had visited and liked to my blogroll. Since then, I’ve not updated it. However, I’ve continued adding blogs to my Google Reader. It is so much more efficient since it enables me to scan through new posts quickly.
This evening, I exported my Google Reader subscriptions as an OPML file and uploaded it to my blog. And voila, I have an updated blogroll in a minute. But how do I maintain it? How do I synchronize it with changes to my Google Reader subscriptions? A quick google search did not reveal much. I will research further, when I have the time and hopefully update this post with an easy solution. Or maybe a reader will simply point out the solution to me. Thanks in advance if you’re that reader.
Update (a few minutes later):
I returned to google with one more search and found a solution. Apparently, I was too impatient the first time.
I created a public folder in Google Reader and added all the blogs that I wanted in my blogroll. I entered the public page link in the build box on the googlesystem blog and generated the blogroll code. But I did not copy that code into my blog, I simply grabbed the OPML link from the code and used that as my link import source. I had to delete all my previous blogroll links before uploading to avoid duplicates.
Definitely not the ultimate solution - the one that automatically synchronizes daily without my involvement. Perhaps that exists and I need to do some more searching to find it, but I’m going to bed now, moderately satisfied for now.
