Wordpress Plugin - Google Blog Search Preview

I do most of my programming during weekends. This weekend I decided to write a WordPress plugin. I also wanted to improve my recently acquired PHP skills.

WordPress dashboard displays incoming links from Technorati. This is very useful since it lets you know who are discussing about your blog (not all have trackbacks enabled). But sometimes not all links are visible on Technorati. So I supplement it by doing a “link search” on Google Blog Search.

What if I display the Google Blog Search incoming links also on the WordPress dashboard? Hence this plugin! This plugin uses rss library of WordPress. I wanted to do Ajax, but there isn’t any “native” support for Ajax in WordPress :(

Do checkout Google Blog Search Preview Plugin!

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5 Responses to “Wordpress Plugin - Google Blog Search Preview”

  • 1
    Nirmal
    April 5th, 2007 10:02

    Pretty useful plugin, hoping to see more plugins from you.. :-)

  • 2
    jaysonjc
    April 5th, 2007 11:07

    I am working on few more plugins! :)

  • 3
    Carlo
    April 14th, 2007 21:19

    I get an error (running Wordpress 2.1.3):

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/brodopr/public_html/brodo/wp-content/plugins/jj_gblogsearch.php on line 15

  • 4
    Carlo
    April 16th, 2007 02:03

    I think that could be because my host is using php4 and your plugin requires php5. Any chance to modify it to work on php4?

  • 5
    jaysonjc
    April 17th, 2007 14:24

    Thanks for the feedback on Google Blog Search Preview plugin for WordPress. The plugin was initially designed for PHP 5. That is why you had installation errors. I have modified the plugin to work with PHP4 as well. Please download the latest version ( 1.1)

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