Soft Tech Reviews

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.