Technorati link count widget not yet supported
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I was just looking at the Technorati link count widget. It displays the number of links to a post. It uses javascript, and so can’t be used at WordPress.com.
But I note that, in the instructions for using the widget with WordPress, there is a note that the widget does not yet work with WordPress.com.
Anyone care to comment on the use of the word *yet*?
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I’m just amazed that they put that bit in there about wp.com. We’ve been trying to get them to fix some other docs for months now with no response. (Which reminds me that I need to request an update on that ticket)
Have you suggested it to staff via feedback? That’s probably the only way that it’s going to be added in. User inputting javascripts are a security risk.
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I agree that it would have to be done between staff and Technorati…and while they’re at it, they could add in social bookmarking links, too :D
But it certainly would be a welcome add-in. I like checking the button out on other sites, and it would add value and fun to our blogs here at WordPress.com if we had it.
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I simply go to the Technorati page and view the blog links there.
It just took me 35 seconds
Stolen Moments
* Rank: 15,659 (668 links from 209 blogs)
* URL: http://timethief.wordpress.com
* Updated: 7 minutes ago
I have no need for a widget. -
Most people will not go to a third-party website for which there is no connecting link. It’s a usability thing; if you make it easier for people, they’ll do it. That’s why we have the WordPress global tag pages, too.
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I retrieve and post the information above from Technorati every day on my About page so perhaps that’s why I don’t feel I need a widget.
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That doesn’t show you the links to each post, though. Sure, someone could troll through your technorati listings but who’s going to do that unless you make it easy for them? With the functionality in each post, people will quickly catch on to the fact that linking to your blog posts is a great way to get some publicity for their own blog: it feeds itself.
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I’m not inclined to troll through any other blogger’s links but perhaps that’s because I don’t really care about the “fame” part myself. If there were such a widget on someone’s blog I wouldn’t use it. I avoid sidebar tat like the plague and hate advertising and pop-ups like “snap”. If there are lots of embeds on a blog and I see lots of sidebar tat I simply click out and I don’t return.
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That’s not true: you read mine every day and it’s full of crap like that.
But the add-on we’re talking about here doesn’t actually go in the sidebar; it’s a button at the bottom of each post that shows links to that particular post. Whether or not it is to your taste, a lot of people do like those things, and it makes sense for an option to facilitate linking to WordPress blogs. It’s in WordPress’s interest, and the interest of bloggers who like to follow a conversation around the blogosphere. It essentially tracks thoughts through the internet.
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Obviously I didn’t have a clue what it was really like. I thought it was a sidebar thingee and I don’t care if other people have them or not so go for it!
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Timethief: confusion understandable, since “widget” means “sidebar thingee” in WordPress-ese and has other meaning in other contexts.
I was interested in this one because when I saw that the Technorati javascript widget doesn’t work with wp.com *yet*, I wondered if it meant that wp.com was going to allow select exceptions to the “no javascript” rule.
I now doubt it. I think it’s more likely to mean that: T are working on a javascript-free version; T’s widget page is simply misleading; or perhaps the T widget will turn into a wp sidebar thingee. -
I doubt they’ll allow any exceptions to the javascript rules on user input as even that small opening would be a tempting target for those trying to gain access to the system here. More likely they’ll do something like the flickr widget where you only drop in the needed information and the system puts that within the javascript itself.
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drmike, those were my thoughts, although I wouldn’t bet against it simply being an error on Technorati’s part. Although the T widget is usually used at the end of a post, it could be turned into a WP sidebar widget.
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Well, having looked at the T Widget the other problem you’re gonna have is that the facility (switch off and onable ;) ) will need to be added to every theme on the site.
I don’t see it working properly as a sidebar widget as it will need to be visible per post on the homepage or in single post view in the sidebar.
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Couldn’t you put a technorati image in the sidebar (like: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/388180110_eecd65c9b6_t.jpg), and then put the link to your blog visits page beneath the image, making the image “clickable”?
If you want to do it just in a post, just use the WYSIWYG editor to insert the image wherever you want it, then click on the image and then on link. Insert the link to your technorati site, and then when you save/publish your post, the image will be clickable.
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