Technorati incoming links and WordPress 2.6


For many WordPress users the Technorati Incoming Links that once appeared on the admin dashboard of our blogs was a genuinely useful feature. It was replaced back in version 2.3 with Google Blog Search, which you’d think would be fine if one service was much like the other. It isn’t. Google Blog Search is, in a word, crap. It rarely updates and can never be relied upon to show even a majority of recent links from other sites back to your blog. There was a plugin made available that simply switched your blog admin back to using Technorati instead, but with version 2.6 of WordPress that plugin’s functionality seems to have been intentionally broken by the way in which the information is called having been made more complicated and reliant upon different code in different files.

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Thursday, August 21st, 2008

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Switch back to Technorati incoming links on WP dashboard


If, like me, you’re a WordPress blogger and was annoyed at the switch in version 2.3 from displaying useful Technorati incoming links on your dashboard to far less useful Google Blog Search links, now you can reverse the developers’ move with this plugin.

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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

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