Technorati Incoming Links Widget
Current Version: 0.62
This widget will display your blog’s incoming links from Technorati in your sidebar in a similar way to what you see on the Wordpress dashboard. You can see it in action on my sidebar.
To use it you will need the Wordpress widgets plugin with a widgets compatible theme and a Technorati API key.
Technorati has a limit on the amount of queries you can submit per day (currently 500). As you can imagine a site with heavy traffic load can easily consume that amount very quickly, so this widget will cache the data and refresh it at a user configurable interval.
This is a beta version of the widget so please don’t get angry at me if it deletes your blog / makes your computer explode / causes your cat to be ill etc. There are bound to be wrinkles that need ironing out, if you find any please let me know.
Suggestions and feature requests are also welcome, feel free to leave them in the comments below.
So far this widget has only been tested and confirmed working on Wordpress version 2.0.4 - 2.0.7 and 2.1.2 (Thanks Free Thinker)
Installation
- Download the widget below (zip file).
- Extract djn_incoming_links.php and upload to your widgets directory (usually /wp-content/plugins/widgets/).
- Login to your Wordpress admin.
- Go to the “Plugins” section where you should see “Technorati Incoming Links Widget”, click activate.
- Go to “Presentation” and then “Sidebar Widgets” and drag the widget into place.
- You’re done, time to configure it!
Options
The widget has the following options:
- Title - The title that will be displayed in your sidebar (this will also link to the relevent page on Technorati).
- API Key - You should enter your Technorati API key here (see above).
- Number of items - The number of links to display.
- Caching Interval - How often the list should be updated from Technorati in hours.
- Clear Cache - Clears the links cache, this will pull the data from Technorati again.
Note: If you have no incoming links or have not set your API key the widget will display nothing. I didn’t think people would want a nice advertisement for the fact they have no incoming links.
If you want to check that the widget is working correctly you can view the source of the page and look for “DJN Incoming Links ### debug data” to check the status.
Download Version 0.62
DownloadChangelog
24 May 2007 - 0.62 - Bugfix for incorrect number of items displayed. Thanks Rico.
24 Aug 2006 - 0.61 - Initial beta.
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Excellent - *exactly* what I was looking for!
Works perfect on 2.1.2, if only Technorati would update some of my incoming links! Thanks for the nice plugin.
I was able to activate the plugin, but no widget appeared for me to drag into my sidebar.
WP version = 2.1.3
Thanks for the heads up, Funky Dung.
I’m going to grab a copy of 2.1.3 in the next few days and see if I can recreate this issue.
I’m working on a new version with a couple of additional features that have been requested and the ability to insert anywhere into a template (not just a widget).
I’ve just tested on a clean install of 2.1.3 and had no problems adding the widget to the sidebar.
The only thing that springs to mind at present is a conflict with another plugin, which could be quite a headache to diagnose. If anybody is experiencing this issue with 2.1.3 and can provide more information I would be grateful.
With 2.2 now integrating the widgets plugin into the wp core I think it’s time for my long overdue upgrade. Eek.
I’m installing in my my new installation Wp 2.2.1 + 3k K2 (Barath Kumar) theme but the output wasn’t displayed.
The error message says:
DJN Incoming Links ### debug data
[I] No cache found
[E] Feed error
[I] No items to display
I have double check API key. It’s correct as I have tried to hit the API request manually, the feed returned correctly.