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I have a client I am migrating from Blogger to her own domain built with WP. She likes their LINKS which includes a thumbnail and RSS. Any suggestions for a plugin? The dev site is here: http://www.kennethbsmith.com/clients/wpjess/journal/ (original site: http://www.intercontinentalgardener.com/)

I have already tested the plugins/widgets Better Blogroll and Blogroll Widget with RSS Feeds. The last one is VERY promising but i can not get the images to populate. The plugin homepage is in German. Shist!!