Google Blog Search Preview Plugin for WordPress
Google Blog Search Preview is a simple plugin for Wordpress which displays incoming links from Google Blog Search. This is similar to Technorati incoming links and hence is displayed on the Activity tab of WordPress Dashboard.
I found that Google Blog Search sometimes shows me inbound links which are not yet detected by Technorati. Hence this plugin! This plugin uses “link:” feature of Google Blog Search to identify incoming links.
This plugin is released under GPL license.
Important : This is tested only on WordPress 2.1+ versions. Please contact me if you came across any problems with earlier versions.
DOWNLOADING
Download Google Blog Search Preview 1.1 | Download as text file
INSTALLATION
1. Upload to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/ and unzip the file, it will create jj_gblogsearch.php file.
2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
3. Go to WordPress Dashboard and verify that incoming links from Google Blog Search are displayed at the bottom of activity section.
SAMPLE SCREENSHOT
CHANGE LOG
- Released 1.0 on 1st April 2007 (PHP 5 only)
- Released 1.1 on 17th April 2007 (PHP 4 and PHP 5 support)
April 14th, 2007 01:43
Everything seemed to be working fine until I activated it. My site disappeared and I got this message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/paddock/public_html/wp-content/plugins/jj_gblogsearch.php on line 15
Any clue?
April 16th, 2007 06:56
I gave the plugin a shot but get the same error as reported above by Lance.
April 17th, 2007 14:23
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)
April 17th, 2007 15:38
Shows you how observant I am. I should have seen that the first time.
Anyway, I just reinstalled it and it works perfectly!
April 24th, 2007 01:24
Any chance this could be also used as a sort of related-posts/what others are saying on this subject plugin: so at the end of a post, a list is automatically displayed of posts on other blogs found by doing a google blog search of the tags in that post? Like related posts, but the posts displayed are what others are saying, not what you’ve said….