WP Chiclets provides a set of RSS chiclet buttons in the sidebar; it automatically customizes itself to a blog and its feed URL. There are a bunch of “chiclet creator” websites that will generate HTML for you, but I couldn’t find any sidebar widgets to do this without requiring hand-editing of templates.

Installation is the usual for a sidebar widget:

• Download the zip file.
• Unzip it into wp-content/plugins (or upload the wp-chiclets.php file into the wp-content/plugins directory on the web server).
• Look for “WP Chiclets” in the WordPress “Plugins” control panel and activate it.
• Go to the WordPress “Presentation” control panel and configure the widgets; add the “WP Chiclets” to the sidebar somewhere.

There are no code- or template-editing requirements to use this plugin; the links and logos will appear in the sidebar, automatically customized to the blog, wrapped up in standard widget CSS for easy styling.

I’ve written this a sidebar widget for WordPress-2.2; I don’t know if it will work with older versions. If you like it (or if you don’t), please leave a comment with a link to your website.