Stubborn Fanatic - Vivek Sanghi's Tech Blog » technorati http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com Documenting Tech Fanaticism Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:43:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Allow your labels to be searched in Technorati and Del.icio.us tags http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com/2006/11/allow-your-labels-to-be-searched-in-technorati-and-delicious-tags/ http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com/2006/11/allow-your-labels-to-be-searched-in-technorati-and-delicious-tags/#comments Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:20:00 +0000 viveksanghi http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com/2006/11/allow-your-labels-to-be-searched-in-technorati-and-delicious-tags/ Hello Friends,

I have developed a simple little add-on for your blog. To know what I am talking about, just see the labels in my post’s footer. Notice the tiny Technorati pic beside each label. When clicked, it shows you all the posts from bloggosphere that have been tagged with the label in question. (See end of this post for Del.icio.us how-to)

It is a good way to allow your reader to search Technorati using tags and serves as a sort of “related posts from other blogs” link. Installing this code is fairly simple. Just follow these steps:

1. Edit your template HTML code and check the “Expand Widget Templates” box. Make a backup of your template if you are not used editing HTML.

2. Look for your post footer i.e. look for <div class=’post-footer’>

3. Then in there, look for the labels code i.e. look for <span class=’post-labels’>

4. In there, look for the main label href i.e. look for:

<a expr:href=’data:label.url’ rel=’tag’><data:label.name/></a>

and immediately after that line add this code:

<a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/tag/" + data:label.name' rel='tag' target='_blank' title='Search this tag on Technorati'/><img alt='' border='0' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/178/17688294081221/320/25365/technorati.gif' style='vertical-align:middle'/></a>

That’s it! It’s as simple as that. However, let me know if your face any problems.

Update: Del.icio.us How-to:

Deniz from imessengr.com has added the “search in Del.icio.us tags” functionality to labels, on similar lines. You can access the code from here.

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]]> http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com/2006/11/allow-your-labels-to-be-searched-in-technorati-and-delicious-tags/feed/ 21 Cool Technorati Add-ons for your Blog http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com/2006/11/cool-technorati-add-ons-for-your-blog/ http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com/2006/11/cool-technorati-add-ons-for-your-blog/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:21:00 +0000 viveksanghi http://www.techblog.viveksanghi.com/2006/11/cool-technorati-add-ons-for-your-blog/ Hello Readers,

I have come across two cool add-ons for your blog. They are:

1. Technorati Rank display widget by purplemoggy
2. Technorati Blog reactions link from imessengr.com

1. PurpleMoggy has posted a very useful add-on with which one can display their real-time Technorati rank in the blog’s sidebar. To get a preview of the add-on and learn the code click here.

2. Deniz from imessengr.com has provided the Blogger Beta code for displaying the number of links from other blogs to a particular post via Technorati’s engine. To get a preview of this add-on and learn the code click here.

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