Posted by Alisha on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 – 12:58 pm
There is now an even easier fix than the one that I wrote about before, for the Incoming Links in WordPress. This is a plugin that is supposed to allow you to see the links from Technorati again.
I tested this out, but it didn’t work. I still see the same links as before. I’ve noticed a couple other 2.3 compatible plugins that don’t work with 2.3. At least they don’t appear to work for me. One would be the Recommended Tags.
With the database issues I’ve seen with WordPress because of the upgrade to 2.3, I’m tempted to do a clean install, because it seems as if the upgrade wasn’t very successful.
Anyway, if you want your Incoming Links fixed, download the plugin and hope it works!
Sometime in the near future I will do a clean install of WordPress 2.3.
Posted by Alisha on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 – 9:00 am
So far, I guess I have helped at least a couple people that I know of with my solution for changing from Google Blog Search back to Technorati.
There is a much easier fix now. I can’t believe I didn’t think of saving the solution as a file. Jason R Briggs has been nice enough to do this for anyone who isn’t sure about editing code and doesn’t like the switch from Technorati to Google Blog Search for the incoming links.
This fix is for WordPress 2.3. The download and instructions are on his site.
I’m sure there may be a very good reason why this change was made but I’d like to know why! Anyone know?
Posted by Alisha on Saturday, September 15th, 2007 – 9:06 pm
If you’re like me, you may have ended up with Incoming Links displaying links from Google’s Blog Search instead of from Technorati. You will know this because you might see different links than you did before, or even links from your own site. This happened after I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 beta 3. If that’s not what caused it, then what did?
Anyway, I figured out how to fix it. I took the code from version 2.2 and put it in index-extra.php in the wp-admin folder.
UPDATE for WordPress 2.3:
Find this code:
$rss_feed = apply_filters( 'dashboard_incoming_links_feed', 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&scoring=d &ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss&partner=wordpress&q=link:' . trailingslashit( get_option('home') ) );
$more_link = apply_filters( 'dashboard_incoming_links_link', 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&scoring=d &partner=wordpress&q=link:' . trailingslashit( get_option('home') ) );
Replace it with:
$rss_feed = apply_filters( 'dashboard_incoming_links_feed', 'http://feeds.technorati.com/cosmos/rss/?url=' . trailingslashit( get_option('home') ) );
$more_link = apply_filters( 'dashboard_incoming_links_link', 'http://www.technorati.com/search/' . trailingslashit( get_option('home') ) );
I have removed the code I had up for the beta version of WordPress. Just replacing the links for $rss_feed and $more_link should be enough, as shown above.
Why this was all changed, I don’t know, except that I wanted my Technorati Incoming Links back! I hope this helps anyone else who prefers Technorati over Google’s Blog Search.
