WordPress used to have link management built into core. All the code is technically still there, but it’s been disabled by default for many years. You can re-enable it with the Link Manager plugin, which is where the code will theoretically move eventually. Included along with this link management code is an OPML generator.
I was recently reading about how micro.blog has a blogroll feature that exposes the OPML at a .well-known path. Dave Winer has also been writing about blogroll discovery.
Blogrolls obviously aren’t new, but coming back to this idea seems important. Improving discovery for the distributed/social web seems important.
I wrote a quick WordPress plugin, to complement the Link Manager plugin, that adopts some of these new ideas. Namely:
- Exposes the blogroll at
/.well-known/recommendations.opml - Adds a
linkelement withrel="blogroll"to the<head>section - Adds a
source:blogrollto your RSS feed
Add-on approved for #firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/feed-and-blogroll-discovery/
Use it to grab feeds for your native or web readers. Skip corporate feed algorithms.
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Feed And Blogroll Discovery – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-GB)