Bring Back Technorati Links In WordPress 2.3

If you haven’t upgraded to WordPress 2.3 yet, you will possibly be in for a shock when you finally do make the upgrade. In the WordPress Dashboard, it will no longer display recent Technorati inbound links. Instead, it looks like the WordPress team decided to halt their relationship with Technorati and hitch their wagon to Google Blog Search to display inbound links in your dashboard.

With Technorati dealing with some major problems and the outstanding pedigree of Google services, this move is not surprising to me at all. Google seems to have a better pulse on the blogosphere than Technorati these days, with less down time and better search results.

With that said, it looks like there are several that are slow to accept change, so a WordPress plugin was created for WordPress 2.3 users that will restore your Technorati inbound links. The plugin is simply called Technorati Links WordPress plugin, and once activated, you will simply have to enter your Technorati API Key for it to restore this feature to the main page of your WordPress Dashboard.

Update:  A newer version of the plugin has been released since this post was written.  It now replaces the Google Blog Search function and no longer requires your Technorati API Key.   Thanks Jeremy!