UPDATE: How to add the BlogHerRoll to your own blog

Some of us dream things that never were and ask "why not?" (Sorry, blatant RFK-stealing I know.)

Such a person is commenter/attendee Jacqueline Passey, who asked: "why not a BlogHer blogroll/community we can all join and add to our sites?"

To which we said: sure...wanna figure it out and tell us how, and we'll post it here?

To which she responded by...actually doing exactly that! You people rock!

So, if you're interested in adding the entire BlogHer Roll to your blog in one fell swoop (as Jacqueline herself has done here (lower left-sidebar) go to the extended body of this post for the instructions.

PS-it's so easy I could do it! I did it via javascript here and here, and via Typelist here.

Find out how you can do the same...

Step one: Add code to your sidebar template:

Via Javascript
Insert the following Javascript code into your blog template:

<script language="javascript" src="http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?id=blogher" type="text/javascript"></script>

[Note: the method above works for Blogger and iBlog blogs just fine...'cause those are the ones I tried it on.]

Via HTML link
If you use PHP or another method to include raw HTML into your blog, use the following URL instead, which returns the blogroll as HTML.

http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=blogher

Via Typepad Typelist
TypePad users will want to create a new TypeList item, paste the Javascript code into the Link Title line and leave the Link URL part blank.

Adding the BlogHer blogroll to your site is a great way to support your fellow BlogHer bloggers and help us all attract more traffic, links and new readers.

Thanks again to Jacqueline Passey for figuring this out and providing us with the instructions above!

UPDATE: BritBlogHer Improbulus has found a potential problem some people may have viewing the BlogHerRoll in IE, where the Roll gets pushed to the bottom of the page instead of sitting properly in your side bar. She describes the fix at length here. The bottom line is: In your blog template, in the head section (just before the is fine), simply copy and paste the following code, save your template and republish your blog: .blogrollitem { word-wrap:break-word; }

Comments

[Page]

Please add me to your great blogroll!
This blog got lots of useful links.
Thank you so much!!!

[Jess Riley]

Hi Elisa and Blogherteam!

Would you please add me to the Blogher blogroll? I'd be thrilled to be in such great company. Thank you so much!

Jess
http://jessriley.blogspot.com

[sanders5]

This may end up needing to be a web ring b/c as this list grows it is going to exceed the length of most blogs. For instance, usually I only have one blog at a time displayed and I've upped it to 10, but it will grow past that, kwim?

[allison]

Pretty please add my humble site to your blogroll...thanks so much. This is a great place.

[jozet]

Great site!

Could you add Halushki to your blogroll?

http://yonkogirl.blogspot.com/

[Elisa Camahort]

Done Jozet. On old and new sites :)

[Page]

Hi Elisa.
Thank you for adding!
http://www.pagerank-prediction.com/

[pinay aphrodite]

Hi, can I add up my site? It's at http://keyboardthoughts.blogspot.com

I have entries written in both English and in Filipino.

[pinay aphrodite]

hello.. thanks for adding my site to the blogheroll :)

[Elisa Camahort]

Hi everyone. This site is outdated. Please visit the new BlogHer.org

When there you can list your blog in our directories at that site. People an subscribe to those blog rolls via RSS, but we don't yet have an exported blog roll solution. Since we have over 9000 blogs listed now, it will have to be via some customizable widget.