Technorati tags, part 327
Following my pride in getting Technorati tags onto this blog, it’s always nagged me that they never actually appear in Technorati. It should have been simple. They say:
To associate a post with a Technorati Tag all you have to do is “tag” your post by including a link with a defined tag relationship. For example:
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/[tagname]" rel="tag">[tagname]</a>[...] Your post should appear on the page in a few minutes (up to an hour during periods of intense activity).
Problem was, my post never appeared on the page, not even after a few days.
Turns out that it’s not enough for the tags to appear on your blog page. They’ve also got to appear in your atom feed. You’d think Technorati might have mentioned that. So I’ve spent the last hour hacking around in WordPress, producing my first WordPress plugin for a filter for the_category_rss and (while I’m at it) for the_content to ensure the tags go on the web pages more easily.
Well, that’s the theory, anyway. I’ll let you know if it works.
Update: It does work! Hooray!
