WordPress Admin Incoming Links
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.
9 Responses to “WordPress Admin Incoming Links”
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Justin Tadlock on September 25th, 2007
Thanks for the tip. I was so happy with how well my upgrade went and the new features. Then, I was like, “Huh? What’s this Google thing?”
I just wanted to let you know that it works great. I’m now enjoying my Technorati links once again.
Alisha on September 25th, 2007
You’re welcome. I’m glad to hear I’ve helped somebody else out!
I’m sure there is a reason for why they did this and possibly a better solution, but this was my way of doing a quick fix.
Maximus on December 20th, 2007
I would like to see a continuation of the topic
clairemc on April 19th, 2009
Hello there!
Is there anyway of having these links automatically show up on your website?? Im sorry Im a bit rubbish at php…
Thanks!
Claire
Alisha on April 27th, 2009
None that I know of unless someone has created a new plugin to change it.
Vlad on June 9th, 2009
Technorati now has a widget to show blog rections on your site.