WP Tags to Technorati
I’ve written my first useful Wordpress plugin!
In Wordpress 2.3, they introduced a new tagging feature … which I think is pretty nice … but I haven’t found a plug-in that lets you turn those tags into Technorati tags.
I’ve played around with a few dinky little plug-in’s in the past … but they were all for my own personal use. This time, however, I decided to try my hand at making a plug-in that could be used by more people.
So, I’m pleased to announce “WP Tags to Technorati”.
You can see the plug-in in action below.
Installation
- Upload the full directory into your wp-content/plugins directory
- Activate it in the Plugin options
(pretty simple, eh?)
Frequently Asked Questions
Works it with all WordPress versions?
This version works with WordPress 2.3.0 and better. It’s dependent on the new
Wordpress tagging feature.
Download
Revision History
| 0.1 | Initial release |
| 0.2 | Added comment to the markup so it’s clear that the plugin is being invoked. |
| 0.3 | Added classes to the generated links and fixed problem with single tags. |
| 0.4 | Properly encode the generated tag url. |
| 0.5 | Added options panel so “Technorati Tags” label can be customized. |
| 0.6 | Added the ability to not include the tags in the footer, so they could be manually put in a theme. |
| 0.7 | Added a control to allow technorati tags to open in a new window. Also added version identifier to comment. |
| 0.8 |
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I’ve activated the plugin but I see no changes to my tags. They’re still just working internally. How will this change my tags? Does it conflict with the Simple_Tags plugin which manages tags?
Once activated, you should see “Technorati Tags: ” at the bottom of your post with the list of tags.
It shouldn’t conflict with SimpleTags (I used that too), but the appearance will be very similar. If you look at http://www.geekyramblings.org/2007/11/10/wordpress-tags-to-technorati/ you’ll see the plugin in action.
Hi David, I have your plugin activated and just to double check I have deactivated Simple Tags. It still isn’t showing. Do I need to put something in my template? Here’s a post with a tag of memes:
http://www.jaynedarcy.us/2007/11/13/if-i-were-president/
Jayne:
Download the current version … I’ve added some code to put comment markings in the generated html. Give that a try. FWIW: The page you indicated has the simple tags plug-in was still active, but that shouldn’t have any impact.
I’ve deactivated SimpleTags by Broobles, Simple Tag Amaury Baumer. I’ll keep those deactivated. I thought it might be that I’m using a Sandbox-based theme and so I switched it to the default and still didn’t get technorati tags. Sorry to be such trouble, but I’d really love to use this plugin.
Jayne sent me here and I’m glad she did. I’ve got your plug-in up and running. Love it.
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Great plugin. Thank you very much
Seems to be working on my site. I only wish I could use it on my regular blog (it’s hosted on wordpress.com, so I can’t upload to it). I also linked to it, just so you know.
Nice plugin! Keep ‘em coming.
Nice David but is there a way to put the tags anywhere within the loop right now?
Not currently … but let me see if I can put something together.
Forgive the complete noobness of this question, but do the tags get added to Technorati ie, does technorati pick them up and link back to your site if they are clicked, or are they just tags…
I think the default ping that Wordpress does should include Technorati automatically. I’m pretty sure that Ping-o-matic does.
My plug-in doesn’t do the ping, because it’s invoked every time the post is displayed. You only want a ping to occur when the post is initially made.
Okay, so the tags i added originally to the post SHOULD be on Technorati anyway…
Thanks
Maybe … depends on how they were referenced. I don’t know if Technorati will pick up on the link if they were not links to Techorati initially.
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This is a great plugin, but it’s wrecked my RSS feed unfortunately. When it’s activated, the array included as comments in the HTML is picked up in the feed e.g.
object(stdClass)#162 (11) { ["term_id"]=> string(2) “32″ ["name"]=> string(7) “adsense” ["slug"]=> string(7) “adsense” ["term_group"]=> string(1) “0″ ["term_order"]=> string(1) “0″ ["term_taxonomy_id"]=> …Why do you think this is? I’ve had to switch the plugin off for the moment. Perhaps it’s my template? Thanks.
Grab the latest version. It doesn’t have the debug code.
Thanks David, that’s fixed it.
Hello,
I found that this plugin will display extra info before post body.
I guess, those information is displayed for debugging, right?
Maybe we should add this line of code just before $tag_url be defined:
define('DEBUG', false);and let the code for displaying debugging information to be like these line:
if ( DEBUG ) {echo "";
}
Does it will be better?
Anyway, this is a WONDERFUL plugin.
Thanks for your development and sharing.
let the code for displaying debugging information to be like these line:
if ( DEBUG ) {echo "<!-- ";
var_dump($tags);
echo " -->";
}
The debug code has been removed from the latest version. Grab it here.
hi,
I just install this plugin. But, when I post, the tags generated with this kind of link :
http://www.giveawaywebsite.com/‘http://technorati.com/tag/business+client/’
Its seem doesn’t work with that link.
you can see this post at http://www.giveawaywebsite.com/free-website-blog/internet-business-leverage/keep-your-e-business-engaged-via-e-mail
How to fix this?
Thanks!
It looks like PHP ‘magic quotes’ is enabled for your server. If you can turn off magic quotes, the problem should be be fixed. I’ll see if I can find a way to programatically handle it. Checkout http://us2.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.php for more information.
hi david,
thanks for the solution. I had found the other plugin which is interfere the wp-to-technorati plug-in. The plugin which intefere that is WPCashLinksLite, which is a Plugin to search for keywords and make them linkables (http://www.wp-pluginsdx.com/index.php/category/wp-cashlinksdx-wordpress-plugin)
How to solve this if I want to use both of these plugins?
Thanks in advance!
First off, try disabling PHP magic_quotes on your server.
Since the plug-in you mention is commercial … I can’t look at it to see what it’s doing.
Sorry, but that’s all I can suggest.
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i somehow dont get how does this work.must i fill up my tag’s wat the bottom when im making/writing a post?or does this plugin autosearch my post for words to be put under tags.
im not very sure how to use technorati as well, must i fill up the tags on the site or does it actually scans my site for tag words?
Yes
No.
When you ping Technorati (either individually or using a service like pingomatic), Technorati will analyze your post for the links. Your post will then show up under the tag categories you specified on Technorati.
so is there a widget that has a label technorati tag or something?cos at the moment there is already a tag cloud widget , and i dont really see a diff activating your plugin.am i missing something?
The tag cloud doesn’t create links to Technorati.
so where or how do i make the tags appear?im sure there has to be some code or script i have to put somewhere,no?
As long as your post has tags, and the plug-in is enabled, the technorati links will show up automatically.
Hi David,
Any chance you could make the colon before the tags optional? I’ve encoded the label in header tags, so the colon appears on it’s own before the tags and looks out of place. Have a look at my blog and you’ll see what I mean.
I realise I could easily edit the code to remove it, but other users might benefit too.
Thanks,
Jon.
I think that’s doable … although the code isn’t trivial at this point (existing values need to be updated, but only if they haven’t been updated before).
Check back in a few days and I might have something.
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David, I got your code up and running. Thanks man. Great plugin and much needed too.
David,
So i have installed the pluggin and noticed that it has replaced the tagline with technorati tags. I quite the newby so this question might sound amature, What ui am wondering is will this now disable the previous tsgs and only refernce to technorati.? i have noticed that google has already indexed some of my tags.
Not sure I follow … my plug-in replaces nothing … it appends the technorati tags to the post. If I look on your blog, I saw just the technorati tags generated by my plug-in.
I knew when i wrote that it would be a little confusing.. originally that line of techno tags you just saw used to be just tags.. so now that your plugin has converted them to technocrati tags, does that cancel out what the original tags did for me?
Chris: I really don’t know what to tell you here … my plug-in doesn’t replace, convert, or cancel anything out. My plug-in simply appends the technorati tags to the end of the post.
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Is their a php function i can use to customize the placement in my template?
Yes, use this:
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Thanks for a great tool, David. You might want to edit your ReadMe doc to be very explicit about how to put the function call in a page template — I didn’t know you had to use ‘echo’ and kept trying all sorts of other things, and some people might not know to wrap the echo function call in php tags.
Thanks again!!!
Perfect. Thank you!
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Great plugin! I was looking for something like this and found your plugin. Works like a charm!
Thanks, man! Works great and and does a great work!
I’ve installed the plugin and it’s working, but now I seem to have two sets of tags displaying. What do I need to do?
http://www.maxinesniderinc.com/blog/
You’ll need to update your theme to not display the tags.
The tag prefixed with “Technorati tags:” is the one supplied by the plug-in, the other set of tags is provided by the theme.
Love the plugin. It has made adding the Tags much more efficient than what I was researching. The only issue I have is I am getting the Technorati tags info twice in my posts. I want it to show up in only 1 place, after our internal site tags. Any ideas? I’m not real PHP proficient, but I can find my way around a bit. Here’s a sample post:
http://blog.heathensonline.com/2008/03/13/full-on-zombie-fun/
Thanks for any help in advance.
Bah, I got it figured.
I might have tried looking first huh.
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Really useful plugin, thanks!
Many thanks to you, David. This is a wonderful plugin and I truly appreciate all the work you put into creating it and the generosity in sharing it with all of us. You’re a gem! Thanks again
I’m trying to add the tags to my single.php because that’s where my regular tags show, but I can’t figure it out as I know next to nothing about php. I unchecked the box in the option and copied tags2tech_get_tags_links() into the php under my regular tags, but I didn’t know what to put before or after it, I tried <? php tags2tech_get_tags_links() ;?&rgt; with and without the semicolon. Should it be something else?
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I have activated your plugin. It seems to work but when I look at Technorati they have only seen the category as a tag. Have I done someting wrong?
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Hi! I have installed the plug in to WordPress 2.51 but am getting a fatal error when I click the Technorati Tags tab in Settings. Any words of wisdom as to what I might have done wrong?
Sorry for the long delay on this reply … work’s been a bit hectic.
Reese: Can you email me your single.php file?
Rolf: Can you point me to an example?
Chris: Can you tell me more about the error you are getting? Perhaps the error log entry from your web server?
david
My error is
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_plugin_page() in /data/members/paid/l/a/larkrise.net/htdocs/www/wordpress/wp-admin/technoratitagging.php on line 65
I have no idea how to get an error log from the server- shows how little I know about anything!
Chris:
Do you have any other technorati tagging plug-in’s installed? That file isn’t one that is included in my plug-in.
A real plug-in should be installed the wp-content/plugins directory, not the wp-admin directory.
david
No, no other plugin. I think I must have copied the plug in to wp-admin in error and then copied to wp-content/plugins. I have deleted the folder that was in admin. The technorati tagging tab in settings now returns the error: Not Found
The requested URL /wordpress/wp-admin/technoratitagging.php was not found on this server. I think I have made a bit of a mess of this!
Well, the file
technoratitagging.phpis not part of my plug-in, so I really don’t know what to tell you.The only file used by my plug-in would be wp-content/plugins/wp-tags-to-technorati/wp-tags-to-technorati.php
Hi David. OK, apologies needed: somehow, although I wanted your plugin and thought that that was what I had downloaded- in fact what I got was technoratitagging! No wonder it was confusing for both of us. Now I have yours, do not have the other and everything is wonderful!!
Hey, I’m just curious why this plugin is necessary. If you use the built-in tagging functionality in Wordpress and ping pingomatic on posting (which is the default behavior), Technorati picks up those tags. What am I missing?
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My plug-in just generates the links TO Technorati for you. It does nothing to actually ping Technorati (the standard ping mechanism built into WP, as you said, does that for you).
It offers the reader an easy way to find other posts, on other blogs, that are similarly tagged.
Gotcha. Makes sense. Thanks for the response!
Hi David,
Regarding my comment on April 23rd, 2008 you asked for an example.
What I mean is the different tags from your plugin,(example http://www.blognyheter.se/coaching/?p=385 ,and the tags at technorati, example http://technorati.com/posts/APpgLjc1E4vnvqPDg3gsPDhBhUyJ49YrUVrEB9nSCWY=
Rolf:
Looks like it’s working OK to me.
You specified ‘framgång, happy, lycka, values, värdering’ as the tags on the post … and ‘Coaching, analys, framgång’ as the categories. The plug-in generated links for the tags to technorati.
That’s all my plug-in does … not sure what Technorati is using to determine the tags.