Removal of Zemanta with no replacement in sight
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I just read the sticky about the removal of Zemanta and I think it’s a terrible decision, considering there is no replacement for it. WordPress might be building a “natively built-in” replacement, but why remove Zemanta until that is accomplished?
And don’t try to fob us off that the Related Posts feature can be considered as a “better” replacement. That is your opinion, and definitely not that of the people that use WordPress. How can the Related Posts feature provide suggested links to external content other than what is available on my own blog? Because it obviously doesn’t.
Bring back Zemanta until you have a “better”, “native” replacement. Just in case you were wondering, a replacement would have the same features as its predecessor plus more.
Until then, thanks for making it a more arduous and time-consuming task to create my posts by having to manually visit Wikipedia, Google Maps, IMDB and many others for each and every single post.
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See here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/removing-zemanta-integration?replies=1 and note that Zemanta can be easily re-installed via the browser extension.
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How can the Related Posts feature provide suggested links to external content other than what is available on my own blog? Because it obviously doesn’t.
You enter the blogs you want content from into the zeamnata browse extension.
As I’m a long time blogger and used zemanta before it was introduced into the dashboard here. I have read these thread with bloggers complaining in them. They appear to have been blindly clicking the related links Zemanta provided, rather than doing their own research for related posts up front before they even developed their post content.
I know how to blog so there’s no way in heaven or hell I would ever do that. I carefully select which related posts I will link by using multiple search engines. I check out the authority of any blog and its pagerank. I check out the site to be sure it’s a good neighborhood too. In other words, I know how to estimate the value of the backlink I am about to confer upon the other blogger’s blog before I create it. I did not link to most of the related posts that Zemanta provided in the dashboard version. There were too many links to posts on low quality and/or no quality and/or no authority, no pagerank and/or commercial sites.
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If a blogger blindly adds a link to their website through the use of this feature then that is the individuals problem and lack of forethought. Not every blogger is this careless and neither am I for that fact. I preview all links added to my page before I add them, using the useful ‘visit’ link attached to the recommended link’s sub-menu. If it’s not a suitable link for my conent, then I won’t add it and instead source my own link. It is a very intuitive feature and I would expect that the vast majority of bloggers know how to use it properly.
So the reason for it’s removal is because of a “forthcoming replacement” or because of a few mindless individuals who complain because they’re incapable of using the feature correctly?
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Staff posted the reason here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/removing-zemanta-integration?replies=1
The fact you don’t like the reasoning provided by Staff nor my observations and opinions changes nothing.
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