It’s only a few days since Wordpress released the new version 2.3. In this version, Wordpress changed the system to identify the incoming links. In earlier versions, this system was using Technorati, and now it has been changed to use Google Blog Search. You may consider making few changes to your Wordpress code to return to the “old” Technorati system, it’s on your own. Here I’ll explain how to make that change.
The file you need to modify is index-extra.php (located in the folder wp-admin). I recommend you to make a backup. Edit index-extra.php with your preferred editor and go to line 11 and 12. You’ll 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’) ) );
All you have to do is replace the previous lines with the following ones:
$rss_feed = apply_filters( ‘dashboard_incoming_links_feed’, ‘http://feeds.technorati.com/search/’ . trailingslashit( get_option(’home’) ) );
$more_link = apply_filters( ‘dashboard_incoming_links_link’, ‘http://www.technorati.com/blogs/’ . trailingslashit( get_option(’home’) ) );
And you got it!
Now the question is… what do you prefer: Technorati or Google Blog Search?
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