---
title: "Story List macro"
date: 2003-05-11
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Story List macro

Tonight I added an OPML blogroll to my menu – easy thanks to [Jake Savin’s instructions](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306094907/http://radio.outliners.com/blogRollOutliner). Then I set about trying to implement a “Last 10 Entries” script into my weblog menu. Because I tend to write long-ish articles, I’d like to have a dynamic menu that lists my 10 most recent articles. I looked around the web for a feature like this, but found that most webloggers don’t list their weblog entries in their menu. Most people rely on a calendar as a navigation tool, or they use categories. Eventually I did find a relevant script by Jon Udell called [StoryList](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306094907/http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2002/03/16.html). It provides a list of all articles in reverse chronological order. There’s also a script by Marc Barrot called [RadioScan](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306094907/http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/stories/2002/04/06/radioscan.html) which extends the concept, but I decided I’ll stick with Jon’s script at this point. I then spent a bit of time messing around in Radio until I got it right. So now I have a [list of my articles](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306094907/http://radio.weblogs.com/0105304/stories/2003/05/11/storylist.html). That’s cool, but I still want to put this in my menu and truncate it to the 10 most recent entries. But since it’s nearly 1am, I think I’ll tackle that another time!

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/05/11.html#a6))*