I lost my Zemanta pet, you know the one that lets you attach ‘Recent Articles’ at the bottom of your WordPress blog?
Yes, in January, WordPress did away with Zemanta and now have their own “Recent Articles” feature which only lists past posts from your own blog that might be similar to the one you’re currently writing. I think this was a big mistake.
For those of you who don’t know, Zemanta is a third-party ultimate blogging assistant and it provided WordPress bloggers fantastic tools to automatically discover related articles to their blogs, in-text links and pictures. I can’t begin to express how much more efficient blogging became for me and how much easier my life was to find related content. It also sent my visitors to other blog sites around the globe, increasing other bloggers’ ‘hits’. What a fantastic idea, right? I mean, isn’t that what blogging is all about?
I don’t know what happened between WordPress and Zemanta, and honestly, I don’t really care. All I know is I wanted Zemanta back because I liked the idea of linking other blogs that my readers might be interested in reading.
After scouring the WordPress forums and asking a few questions of my own, I discovered WordPress bloggers can actually bring Zemanta back to their blogs. All they have to do is go to the Zemanta website and download their browser extension. It’s compatible with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Safari.
So, if you’re like me and want your Zemanta “Recent Articles” feature back, just go here, click on your download and voila!
Don’t you love it when you find your lost pets and bring them home?
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Reblogged this on the art of life and commented:
This is off-topic but thought others might wonder about Zemanta. It just disappeared Jan 2014. Here is how easily you can get it back.
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thanks so much for this info. i wondered what happened to it.
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I’m so glad it was such an easy fix. 🙂 Love your pet blog. I’d love to do pet-sitting. Maybe I could pick your brain? 🙂
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Sure, any time. It takes lots of patients. Which I am learning as I go along. 🙂
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I’m sure it does, but what a reward. Nothing like cold noses and puppy kisses, huh? 🙂
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not at all, and i fostered dogs for the last 3 years, too. i adopted my last foster dog last Dec.
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awww!! I’ll connect with you in the next day or two via e-mail. 🙂
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OK have a great evening.
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Thank you so much! I have been looking, searching and Googling for about 45 minutes and finally found your post. Why is this such a big secret??? It’s more like my pet was kidnapped. They weren’t even asking ransom — I looked to see if it was some kind of costly upgrade within WordPress, but that wasn’t the case either. I will go looking for this browser extension. Thanks a heap! Zemanta was one of my favorite pets . . .
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I’m glad I could help. 🙂
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Woo-hoo! Works like a charm. Thanks again.
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Hi everyone, I also lost the pop-up links that were suggested at the bottom of my post, as well as possible internet images. Are those all connected to this problem? I’d be happy for any suggestions! Diana Bletter, Author, The Mom Who Took Off On Her Motorcycle
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It sounds like it. If they were there prior to Jan 1 and now they aren’t, more than likely, this is the issue. WordPress now uses their own plug in which you can turn on in your Settings, but it seems to only pull from your own past posts, not from around the web.
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Yeah, I noticed this right away. I was hoping it was a glitch… then I saw the WordPress version… in an unusable spot for me. I’ll give this a try
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It worked for me. Yay!! I hope it works for you.
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Yep. It looks okay. At least I can see it. Haven’t used it yet. Thanks for ferreting that out!
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No problemo!
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I had missed i too…leave things alone…I want to scream through the screen…I want it back!…for all of the reaSONS YOU MENTIONED…
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Companies sometimes seem to think, “we can do it better in-house” and lose sight of the time honored wisdom: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”
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I hadn’t noticed it missing yet. Does the plugin require you be in visual mode? Lately I tend to work mostly in the raw mode.
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you have to be in visual mode to pick your related posts. I think that is a Zemanta thing.
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Thanks. Kinda dumb requirement… oh well.
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Thanks for the info! I, too, was wondering where this had gone.
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