Al-Muhajabah's Movable Type Tips

So you want to start adding Technorati tags to your blog, but you're lazy? You already use keywords for your blog entries and you want to automatically have them turned into Technorati tags?

The TechnoratiTags plugin is just what you're looking for. The plugin will parse your keywords to separate out each individual one, then create a link for each to the appropriate Technorati tags page.

Use it in your templates like:

<p>Technorati tags for this entry: <$MTTechnoratiTags$></p>

Added: There's some confusion about where the tags have to be on your page for Technorati to pull them in. Technorati does look in your RSS feed for categories assigned to your entry (which are set in the <dc:subject> tags). Laughing Meme has KeyWordList plugin that you can use to add your keywords automatically to your RSS feed as "categories". The code you'll want to use is:

<MTKeyWordList>
<dc:subject><$MTKeyWord$></dc:subject>
</MTKeyWordList>

Look in your feed for the existing <dc:subject> tags and add this below. Even if Technorati doesn't seem to be picking up your TechnoratiTags tags, it should grab them from your RSS feed, inshallah.

Just having the TechnoratiTags list of tags displayed on your page makes sure that your visitors can follow the links to read more about those topics, so whether or not Technorati is picking it up, it's still a good thing to have.