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  • I should add that the PHP script linked above is very buggy. It works in some places on the page, but not others. It often produces warning and error messages. It also only links to the top level of referring blogs – not the specific posts that are referring to you.

    I finally go that plugin to work. The problem is that both files cosmos.php and cosmos.xml must be at the root level of your blog directory. In other words – in the wrong place for a WordPress plugin.

    Unfortunately, this plugin turns out not to work the way I wanted it. It only shows you the Technorati cosmos for your BLOG, not for an individual POST!!! I want what I see on many movable type blogs:

    Comments (9) | Trackbacks (3) | Technorati (9)

    In other words – it should show you how many technorati items there are for that particular post, just as it would comments or trackbacks. And it should link you to the technorati page where you can then see that cosmos.

    Thread Starter luhmann

    (@luhmann)

    alphaoide: I had tried that and it disabled my entire WP install!!! Also, it doesn’t offer such a nice menu, or persistent caching across sessions.

    Kafkaesqui: Thanks! You put me on the right track. This works:

    <?php get_currentuserinfo(); global $user_level; if ($user_level > 8) { ?>

    Just what I wanted!

    It has been over a month since I checked back here and I still haven’t found anything to do what I am looking for, namely – use technorati in a manner roughly equivalent to trackbacks, for sites that don’t send out pings.

    I tried this:

    http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/02/08/technorati-link-cosmos-using-php/

    But I couldn’t get it to work. It doesn’t seem particularly well documented, and I kept getting error messages, even though my permissions were all set right.

    Yes, I believe this is done automatically without a plugin.

    I had a problem like this when I upgraded my wife’s blog. The posts were visible as individual posts, but not in the archives or main page, giving a “not found” error. In this case it turned out to be a problem with the fact that during the upgrade process I had accidentally deleted my old .htaccess file with the URL redirection code, and once I restored this everything worked fine.

    Ampersand,

    As a regular reader and occasional contributor to your blog, I’m sorry to hear you are having problems. I have a couple of suggestions:

    (1) There are blogs/hacks that prevent trackback spam flooding. I don’t know if this is what you experienced, but I know my blog was flooded and it took me a while to get under control. These hacks work by preventing too many comments or trackbacks within a given amount of time. The SpamKarma plugin seems to work pretty well, although I just discovered it the other day.

    (2) My web host is Hostmatters.com and I’ve been very happy with them. But then, my blog doesn’t get nearly as much traffic as yours.

    I’ve seen MT blogs that have incorporated Technorati so that it works just like Trackback – you see a list of the number of related posts in the index window:

    technorati (3)

    and then when you look at the individual archive page you see those posts listed as if they were comments or trackbacks.

    I have not yet found a plugin to do this for WP.

    Since I’ve had to turn trackbacks off because of SPAM, I thought this might be a nice way to do it instead. (I’ve not seen much technorati SPAM.)

    Putting everything into moderation worked for me for a while – but then the flood of SPAM became so overwhelming that it actually functioned like an attack on my servers – making it completely unusable. The only option was to turn off Trackback entirely.

    I really hope that WP 1.5 has some great anti-SPAM features built-in!!!

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: Flickr Tags for your blog

    Both this plugin and Weighted Categories are nice, but what I’d really like is something that offers true “tag” integration into WordPress. Basically, for each post I’d like to be able to specify a list of words which are both linked to Technorati tags, and also searchable within my own blog as local tags, with a nice weighted overview as well. Oh, and I want to be able to enter these tag terms via the blog-API so that I can use ecto or another blogging client to enter the list of words.

    That tamba2.org.uk site is amazing!!! I hope WP 1.3 developers can implement some of these features by default.

    Thread Starter luhmann

    (@luhmann)

    Thanks! Adding it to index.php in root instead of the theme worked. The plugin looks great, I’ll switch to that after the next nightly build comes out.

    Thread Starter luhmann

    (@luhmann)

    Sorry, I should have said before. But I tried it both ways to be safe and neither worked.

    Thread Starter luhmann

    (@luhmann)

    Well, I’m using a “theme” so it is “header.php” but yes, the same idea. I tried placing the code you specified after the following, to no avail:
    <?php /* Don't remove this line. */ require(ABSPATH . 'wp-blog-header.php'); ?>

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