I just got an e-mail from someone who says their Dashboard is not showing their Technorati Links. This can happen for a few reasons:
- Bad data from Technorati
- Bad request (unlikely, unless the data on the options page is entered wrong)
- WordPress error
- Magical fairies are being mean (curse those fairies!)
Chances are it is just a bad connection to Technorati. Version 1.0 of the plugin handles the connection itself (although it uses the built in RSS functionality of WordPress - so really WordPress still handles it), and version 1.1 simply uses a filter to give WordPress the Technorati URL. The plugin does very little by itself - so odds are the error is with WordPress or Technorati.
There are still some basic things to try before getting mad at me (grr Jeremy… grr… fix this bug!) -
- Make sure the options page is filled out correctly
- Wait a few hours and see if it is a Technorati server glitch
- Disable and reenable the plugin
- Disable, redownload, reupload (delete it off the server first), then reenable it
- Bitch at me
If you still get an empty links list just drop me an e-mail with your blog URL (or the URL entered in the options page), and I will try to figure it out. Chances are I won’t be able to do much though - like I said before, the plugin itself does very little.
If you feel adventurous - you could always try manually doing the same thing the plugin does. Open up the /wp-admin/index-extra.php file and change the URL after the dashboard_incoming_links_feed filter info to:
'http://feeds.technorati.com/cosmos/rss/?url=' . trailingslashit("YOUR BLOG URL HERE")
and change the URL after dashboard_incoming_links_link to:
'http://technorati.com/blogs/' . trailingslashit("YOUR BLOG URL HERE")
And see if that works. Oh, and make sure your blog URL is surrounded by quotes, as in the examples above. The two URLs you need to replace are right on the top of the file and are hard to miss.
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