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Displays recent tracks from your last.fm account.

Features

• Easy to set up via widgets (requires WordPress > 2.8)
• Displays your current tracks (Listening now)
• Customizable by template and css (you decide, what is displayed)
• Data is kept locally (default: 45 seconds)
• English and German localization

Requirements

Important: Requires PHP 5! Tested with WordPress version 2.5.*, 2.6.*, 2.7.* and 2.8.*

Download

• Version 1.0.5

Installation

1. Upload folder wplastfm to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Done

Integration

If you are using widgets

• Design → Widgets
• Drag the widget into your sidebar
• Configure your username, the number of shown tracks and the template
• Done

If you are not using widgets

Copy the following PHP code in your template:

You can configure the plugin via “wplastfm-settings.php” or via array. E.g.

For example

<?php
  $options = array("cache" => 120, "trunctrack" => 0, "truncalbum" => 0);
  wplastfm('loeffler', 5, $options);
?>

Customization

The plugin provides the following CSS classes:

• ul.lastfm
• ul.lastfm li
• ul.lastfm li a — last.fm links
• ul.lastfm li img — image formatting
• ul.lastfm li cite — time formatting
• ul.lastfm li span.lastfm-album — album formatting

If you don’t need the wplastfm.css, you can delete it!

Settings

You can change the following settings in the “wplastfm-settings.php” or via array.

• $wplastfm_options['cache']

  Specifies how long the data is kept locally
  0 = disabled (not recommended)

• $wplastfm_options['trunctrack'] / $wplastfm_options['truncalbum']

  Maximum length of the text
  0 = no separation

• $wplastfm_options['timeformat']

  Time format for songs played more than 24 hours ago. For more informations visit http://php.net/date

Changelog

• Version 1.0.5 (25.11.2009)

  • Fixed error message due PHP 5.3.0 curl bug

• Version 1.0.4 (28.10.2009)

  • Added a fixed height for the album cover
  • Added the option to configure the maximum length of the title/album

• Version 1.0.3 (21.09.2009)

  • Fixed a problem with the right version number

• Version 1.0.2 (20.09.2009)

  • First stable release