Well, I’ve finally joined the large cult of WordPress plugin development and am officially announcing my first plugin - Nusuni Technorati Links.
Ever since the release of WordPress 2.3, many people have been complaining about the developers’ decision to switch to Google Blog search for the “incoming links” section on the blog Dashboard. So, last night at around midnight I decided to add Technorati’s incoming links back on the Dashboard.
Despite the fact it is my first plugin and I only spent an hour learning the plugin API, it seems to work perfectly.
You can download the plugin here.
Update: It is fixed up and works fine now. Sorry about the craziness earlier, I found one major bug and got rid of the buggy code and replaced it with something different, then found out what my bug was and put the now-fixed buggy code back in. It works fine now though.
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October 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 pm
kewel, I might have to grab this once I upgrade.
October 10th, 2007 at 10:17 am
If instead of providing Technorati Incoming Links as an addition to Google Blogsearch urls, if you can provide option of turning off google blogsearch and turning on technorati. So people will have choice, they can keep any one by using options.
Rest the plugin ROCKS!
October 10th, 2007 at 11:01 am
That’s the one thing I can’t really do with a plugin. However, I could write a tutorial about how to manually remove the google links.
October 10th, 2007 at 11:08 am
actually, I just looked it over and I may be able to whip something up to do that.
October 10th, 2007 at 11:12 am
If you can do that it would be great. Actually with so many links in dashboard, its all distorted looking now. And google blogsearch urls are not even needed.
October 10th, 2007 at 11:14 am
What I’ll do is the next version of the plugin will replace the google links, but I’ll leave in an option to simply add technorati links (like it does currently, just in case someone wants both)
October 10th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Just uploaded a new version of it. It gets rid of the API key requirement, add in a blog URL option (so if you want to see the links for / but you blog is located in the /blog/ folder) and it completely replaces Google Blog Search.
October 10th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
That was pretty fast.
Cool…it now looks just as earlier WP. Thanks a ton. And regarding not using API Key..a good thought.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Thanks for your comment
Yeah, the API thing I’m curious about. Usually when a service offers an API they require a key, and I thought Technorati did - but apparently you can still get data without one. If they decide to change their mind I’ll add the key code back in really quick.