Run for cover 2.0
The Run for cover widget has been abandoned for ages, as I only supported my Last.Fm Records plugin for Wordpress. Two things make me publish a new version of this Wordpress widget: disappointment from people stuck with PHP4 and therefore unable to use the new version of Last.Fm Records — and the joy of parsing XML with of jQuery…
Run For Cover shows the cds you listened to recently, as you can see in the sidebar. All data is real time, so the widget shows you if you are listening to a track at this moment. It’s still a rough version, especially the javascript, but it works on my test sites and I know people are looking for such a widget.
The widget needs jQuery, luckily this comes with recent versions of Wordpress. If you get an javascript error about jQuery, you could check the readme.txt .
You can download Run for cover 2.0 here.
Update: the javascript seems to fail under some versions of Internet Explorer. First thing when I’m back home after the holidays.
No project complete without a todo list
- better error checking
- show a message when last.fm is unavailable or when data was not correctly loaded
- use nice jQuery effects when displaying the cd covers
- auto update function after x minutes
Hope you like it — I’d like to read what you think in the comments.
5 Comments
Dgold on November 17th, 2008
Hi! Can you tell me a code (function) to display the plugin without using Widgets? Thank You.
Frank on December 15th, 2008
I’d love to be able to use this plugin! The one above works, but on my site, bannedwidth.org, does not. I removed line 141, but still, nothing.
Thanks
Frank on December 15th, 2008
BTW, using 2.7 with K2. I’ve only checked with IE 6 [since i'm at work right now].
Jeroen Smeets on December 16th, 2008
Hi Frank: I checked your site and it seems the javascript file is missing. Did you upload runforcover.js? It should be at
Baron on September 15th, 2008
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards