Dec
14
Adding Technorati Blog Search to the WordPress Dashboard
Filed Under Tools and Tutorials, Wordpress | Please Comment
Are you disappointed with the inaccuracy of Google's blog search for examining incoming links? Here's a quick way to add links to other services to your WordPress dashboard.
First, go to the root level of your WordPress installation. Find and open the file /wp-admin/index.php. Use a text editor.
Next, find these lines:
<div id="zeitgeist"> <h2><?php _e('Latest Activity'); ?></h2> <div id="incominglinks"></div>
You can add a few links between the "Latest Activity" line and the "incominglinks" id line.
I wanted links to Technoratti Blog Search and a Yahoo linkdomain:mydomain.com search. Other possibilities are a Google search for your name or domain name, or a favorite specialized tool.
I chose to make my links open in a new window, using target="_blank". Enclosing the links in an unordered list and assigning style="margin-bottom: 0;" to the "Latest Activity" heading helps them fit in a little better.
Here is what the lines of code from above have become, with my html edits. Change "domain.com" to reflect your own real domain name, and you're all set.
<div id="zeitgeist"> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0;"> <?php _e('Latest Activity'); ?></h2> <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/blogs/domain.com" target="_blank">Technorati Blog Search</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain:domain.com" target="_blank">Yahoo linkdomain</a> </li> </ul> <div id="incominglinks"></div>
Though this is nothing fancy, it does add a little bit of extra convenience to checking for incoming links. Every little bit helps!
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Added -
http://www.technorati.com/blogs/domain.com
The Technorati URL I've used above will take you to a list of posts available at domain.com.
http://www.technorati.com/blogs/domain.com?reactions
Use this URL if you want to go straight to a list of sites linking to domain.com.