Last.Fm Records free WordPress plugin

This plugin shows cd covers on your WordPress site. It connects to last.fm and grabs the list of cds you listened to recently and tries to find the cover images at last.fm. WordPress Shortcode The [lastfmrecords] shortcode gives you the opportunity to show cd covers in your posts. It uses the settings from the plugin, but you can add arguments to overrule them: period=”***”: can be set to recenttracks, lovedtracks, tracks7day, tracks3month, tracks6month, tracks12month, tracksoverall, topalbums7day, topalbums3month, topalbums6month, topalbums12month and topalbumsoverall count: number of covers to show stylesheet: simple or hover imgwidth: width (and height) of the cd covers user: last.fm username refreshmin: time between updates (only works for period recenttracks) ownapikey: use your own Last.Fm API key For example: [lastfmrecords user=”xample” period=”lovedtracks” count=”14″ stylesheet=”hover”]

jQuery plugin

Starting with version 1.7, the javascript in this plugin is a jQuery plugin. It means you can use it on non-WordPress sites with a little bit of code: include jQuery, and the ‘last.fm.records.js’ file from this plugin add to your HTML (the id name is yours to choose, of course) use this piece of jQuery to show covers jQuery(document).ready( function() { jQuery(“#lastfmrecords_elem”).lastFmRecords( {“period”: “recentttracks”, “user”: “lastfmusername”, “count”: “4”} ); }); check the shortcode options for all arguments.