I wrote a WordPress plugin last night. It is now running on my own weblog though it is just a prototype now. The function of this plugin is to retrieve the information about how many links is linked to your weblog and your post entries from Technorati.

I consider that Technorati supports two main on-line services, one is it can sort blog entries from any other weblogs, photos from flickr, links from del.icio.us in the same category or tag, while another is you can find the posts from other sites which is linked to your site. Keith McDuffee is now working on a WordPress plugin called TechnoTag, it can let you add tags to your posts as you like, it is used for the first main service of Techorati.

Then, you can see there are many sites would like to use Techorati to display the comments from other weblogs, for instance, there is a hyper-link called “blog’s comments” in every post of BoingBoing, and you can know about how many links are linked to your WordPress 1.5 blog from the dashboard page in the user interface for the administrators. However, there is still no plugin to let you know how many links are linked to your every single post, and this plugin is required, I think.

You can download the plugin here. Save it as a text file with file extension as “.php” and upload to “wp-content/plugins” directory in the directory that you installed WordPress. Visit the “Pugins” tab and unable it. Then, create a cache path such as “wp-content/technorati”, make it writable, and please edit your plugin file and change the value of $cache_path into your exact path. Then, edit your php files located in your WordPress theme directory, and add <?php techolink(get_permalink(), "", "") ?> into the loop. If there are no links linked to the permanent links of your posts, it displays “n links from n sources” , and it display nothing while there is not any link.

This plugin caches the informations from Technorati, I have not finished the part of deleting the cache files to update the informations while Technorati is updated. You need to delete these files by your self in a period whiling using the current version. I may finish it somehow later, and it is welcomed to continue my work if you are interested.