If you haven’t upgraded to WordPress 2.3 yet, you will possibly be in for a shock when you finally do make the upgrade. In the WordPress Dashboard, it will no longer display recent Technorati inbound links. Instead, it looks like the WordPress team decided to halt their relationship with Technorati and hitch their wagon to Google Blog Search to display inbound links in your dashboard.
With Technorati dealing with some major problems and the outstanding pedigree of Google services, this move is not surprising to me at all. Google seems to have a better pulse on the blogosphere than Technorati these days, with less down time and better search results.
With that said, it looks like there are several that are slow to accept change, so a WordPress plugin was created for WordPress 2.3 users that will restore your Technorati inbound links. The plugin is simply called Technorati Links WordPress plugin, and once activated, you will simply have to enter your Technorati API Key for it to restore this feature to the main page of your WordPress Dashboard.
Update: A newer version of the plugin has been released since this post was written. It now replaces the Google Blog Search function and no longer requires your Technorati API Key. Thanks Jeremy!
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007 at 1:07 am
I like Google, don’t get me wrong… but I am almost sad to see this happen. In every aspect of business, sports or life in general.. we have GOT to have some form of competition. Again, I like Google, but man… they need competition and need it badly. I have been pulling for Technorati for a long time. And its sad to see them take the hit. For a long time, I thought Bill Gates was aggressive and just ruthless with crushing competition. But, Google is really starting to take the cookie.
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 at 10:53 am
I should probably let everyone know the new version completely replaces the Google blog search functionality and it no longer requires an API-key. Apparently technorati doesn’t even check if the key is there or not.
If anyone has any feedback just let me know.
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Garry - I think competition is healthy, but Google doesn’t grow complacent with their stuff like other companies do. I think there is a difference between Google and other companies in the past, but I agree that they should ideally have competition.
Jeremy - Wow, great! I wrote this post last weekend but it didn’t get published until last night. I will upgrade my plugin and update the above post!
Thanks for supporting your plugin and stopping by!
Friday, October 19th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Hmmm, I switched this back by editing index-extra.php. But the main issue for me is - why isn’t a change of this magnitude mentioned in any of the main release notes or codex entries?
Saturday, October 20th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Stephen - Good question, and something I was wondering as well!
I would assume that because it doesn’t effect how WordPress functions at all, that may be there justification for not including it.
It is a big change, though, so it definitely should have been included. I have to believe that we will have an option in a future version of WordPress. If GBS improved their product it could be more relevant than Technorati, but at this time Technorati is a better measure of inbound links.
Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 1:03 am
I added your plugin ,
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Kelly