New Yahoo! Shortcuts for WordPress

Supporting Material for Your Blog

A nifty new WordPress plug-in lets WordPress bloggers use Yahoo! content to support their bloggery. When you’re composing a blog post in the WordPress admin interface, the Yahoo! Shortcuts beta plug-in automagically begins matching terms in your post to Yahoo! aggregated content, such as company names, stock tickers, map locations, news, product names and Flickr photos.

You decide whether to keep or reject any (or all) recommended shortcuts before your post goes live. When you publish, your selected shortcuts appear in your post according to the format you choose. It’s very cool.

For more info, check out this post on the Y! Search Blog and definitely have a look at the tutorial.

—Michael Mattis

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8 Comments Add your own

1. Back To Search | Hundred &hellip | December 19th, 2007 at 8:53 pm

[…] I really should post some blogs I saw thatYahoo! wants me to join them in an unholy link scheme. [maniacal purple laughter] . Yahoo! has put out a plugin for WordPress that auto scans and links to Yahoo! Search results, […]
2. Carlos | December 20th, 2007 at 10:13 am

Unfortunately the Flicker drawn image does not play nicely with my lists. Congratulations Yahoo! for taking advantage of blogger laziness and your image resources. Also the searches seem to contain an error that forces me to get rid of a warning box before accessing the results (in Firefox). I will try this out for a bit an see if it makes my life easier or more difficult.
3. Scott Clark | December 21st, 2007 at 6:08 am

A bit noisy. It would be sweet if we could configure it for certain kinds of shortcuts we never want on the posts.
4. Administrator | December 21st, 2007 at 10:31 am

Well it’s in beta and we certainly will be taking your feedback into account as we make improvements.

- M2
5. Jason | March 24th, 2008 at 4:01 am

Cheers for the plugin - I’ve been looking for a way to integrate some of the big corporations into feeds on my niche finance blogs.
6. david | April 15th, 2008 at 1:35 am

Hi. Good post. Not sure what I think about this …but it’s hard not to agree with the above post. I guess we will see….
7. SEO Web Design | April 28th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

Great marketing article, would love to hear more about how this might be implemented online and your thoughts on that aspect. Keep the great articles coming.
8. Cheap Desktop Computers | May 12th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

I am really not sure what to think about this one. One of the big advantages of Wordpress is that it is NOT commercial. I don’t know how the Wordpress community will welcome this one.