Incoming Links in 2.3
Seen a few complaints about the replacement of Technorati incoming links by Google’s blogsearch. I can sympathize, since my list of external incoming links has been replaced by a bunch of links from my own site. Useless.
Anyway, as seen here, you can set it back… although I’m not sure his her instructions were clear enough. Either that or there’s a slight difference between the release candidate and the final release.
So for those who don’t have php coding skills, but still want the return of their Technorati links, download this zip file, unzip index-extra.php inside and copy to the wp-admin directory of your WP install. Probably best to take a copy of the current one, just in case. I’ve only tested with the just-released WP2.3, so use at your own risk, etc, etc, etc.
Not to sound mean, but it’s ‘her’ not ‘his’. I’m all female! =)
Anyway, I failed to mention in my blog that the instructions were for 2.3 beta 3. Since I haven’t looked at the final release, I’m not sure if the code is exactly the same.
Thank you for creating a zip with the file so I don’t have to manually edit the code again!
My sincere apologies. I thought for a moment (as I wrote “his”), I really should double-check it is actually a bloke… and then promptly forgot to.
Fixed now…
That is alright, thank you for correcting it. =)
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That’s great… I just upgraded and was ’surprised’ by the change…
I really don’t think we should be more dependent on Google than we already are.
Kenneth