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title: Retiring the WordPress Blogroll
date: 2018-01-23T21:13:18+00:00
modified: 2018-01-23T21:13:18+00:00
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  name: Kaspars
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  - Meta
  - WordPress
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# Retiring the WordPress Blogroll

I’ve decided to retire the [WordPress blogroll project](https://wproll.com/) that I started in 2013. It was originally built to share the list of WordPress related blogs that I was following on Google Reader. I’ve since switched to Feedly and here is [my current list of WordPress related feeds](http://feedly.com/kaspars/WordPress) (also available [as OPML](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/kaspars-wordpress-feeds.opml)).

I remember how hard it was to build a screenshot engine that could render web fonts and handle all kinds or redirects and TLS certificate errors. [Here are the scripts](https://gist.github.com/kasparsd/3985e31829e08b823c6b6a6f35ae09ee) that have been running reliably for the past few years with [PhantomJS](http://phantomjs.org/). It also had a PHP script that automatically published all posts to [this Flipboard magazine](https://flipboard.com/@konstruktors/wordpress-daily-1daomchvy).

Finally, here are a few screenshots of how the website looked at the beginning of 2018:

 
			#gallery-1 {
				margin: auto;
			}
			#gallery-1 .gallery-item {
				float: left;
				margin-top: 10px;
				text-align: center;
				width: 33%;
			}
			#gallery-1 img {
				border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
			}
			#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {
				margin-left: 0;
			}
			/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */
		  [![](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-top100-150x150.png)](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-top100.png)   [![](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-homepage-150x150.png)](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-homepage.png)   [![](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-blog-page-150x150.png)](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-blog-page.png)   
  [![](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-planet-150x150.png)](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-planet.png)   [![WPRoll.com](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-about-150x150.png)](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-about.png)   [![](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-submit-150x150.png)](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wproll-submit.png)