{"id":8753,"date":"2025-10-11T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/not-your-grandparents-blogroll\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:52:34","slug":"not-your-grandparents-blogroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/not-your-grandparents-blogroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Not your grandparent’s blogroll"},"content":{"rendered":"

BTW, something I’d like the WordCamp Canada folk to have a look at, the home page<\/a> of my DaveVerse site.<\/p>\n

There’s a blogroll down the right side, only it’s unlike any blogroll you’ve seen before.<\/p>\n

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  1. The order changes, when a site updates it goes to the top of the list.<\/li>\n
  2. If you click on the wedge, you see the titles of the most recent five posts on the site. If they don’t have a title, that’s okay, we use the text of the description.<\/li>\n
  3. If you roll your mouse over the permalink for each post you can see how the story begins.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you want to read more about these blogrolls, here’s a good place to start<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    BTW, something I’d like the WordCamp Canada folk to have a look at, the home page of my DaveVerse site. There’s a blogroll down the right side, only it’s unlike any blogroll you’ve seen before. The order changes, when a site updates it goes to the top of the list. If you click on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21152445,"featured_media":8866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/10\/ChatGPT-Image-Oct-13-2025-02_52_00-PM.png?fit=1536%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4928,"url":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/my-blogroll-is-a-feed-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":8753,"position":0},"title":"My blogroll is a feed reader","author":"Dave Winer","date":"July 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The nice thing about a blogroll is that it can become a feed reader, in a very small space. It's been on my blog home page for over a year, and I use it a lot, largely because I have to go to that page a lot to see how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Speakers"","block_context":{"text":"Speakers","link":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/category\/speakers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/hopperHotel.png?fit=850%2C697&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/hopperHotel.png?fit=850%2C697&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/hopperHotel.png?fit=850%2C697&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/hopperHotel.png?fit=850%2C697&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21152445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8867,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions\/8867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}