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Last.fm RPS

Widget Plugin that lists your recently listened songs on your sidebar with album or artist images and text.

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Tested up to WordPress 4.9
Current version2.0.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 4.9
Minimum stackWP 2.0.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update9 Dec 20178y ago
Active installations10Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Last.fm RPS version 2.0.0 as active, updated 8y ago and tested up to WordPress 4.9.

Overview

About this plugin

fm feed and parses your recently played song information and then combines it with the album tag

fm feeds. If it doesn’t find an album image, It shows the artist image instead of it.

Whats New in Version 0.2?

  • Added option to define how many songs are displayed on the page
  • Seperated css file from code and added new “lastfm.css” file
  • Added different stylesheets to recently played songs
  • Changed the datetime display configuration like “x days y seconds and z minutes ago”
  • Changed the div’s into tables which are more reliable for different themes.
  • If the user hasn’t any wp_head() included in his/her theme’s header.php, this script checks and adds its css itself.

Whats the fixes in Version 0.3?

  • Added a neccessary fix for the time difference between server time and local time.
  • If there is a track played in the player which length is less than 4 minutes,the script showed two recently listened songs, so this is fixed now.It only displays one.

Whats New in Version 0.4?

  • Added support for not widget-enabled themes.
  • Added Screenshot
  • Updated Readme.txt

Whats the fixes in Version 0.5?

  • When no songs played for a long time or only played only one song, this script raised errors. This is fixed now.
  • Optimized the SimpleXML Extension for speed issues.

What’s added in v0.6

  • Improved checking of album images.
  • If the feed item contains no album name, then directly shows default image.

What’s New in Version 0.7?

  • Added image positioning
  • Added optional Bottom Text
  • Removed the slashes before ‘ and “
  • Converted tables to css so you have all the control in lastfm.css
  • Added artist images support. Now it shows artist images when it can’t find the album image.

The changes in 0.8

  • Added Various Artists album image support
  • Added last.fm badge option
  • Improved options page
  • Added last.fm logos (you should use one)

The changes in 1.0.0

  • Added cURL and fopen support

The minor changes in 1.0.2

  • Added security to file reading function inside class.

The changes in 1.0.3

  • Empty images show up as last.fm image placeholders now.
  • Fixed the compatibility issue with wordpress 2.7 (Their compat.php broke one of my function and i renamed it.)
  • Thanks to Tom for informing me that last.fm started to use 64×64 images instead of 50×50. Thats also changed.

The changes in 1.1

  • Added caching support
  • Changed Last.fm API v1.0 code to v2.0 code
  • Fixed “Now Playing” code

The changes in 1.1.1

  • Fixed annoying file_get_contents error.

The changes in 2.0.0

  • Complete rewrite
  • Updated Last.fm logos to match the ones used in the site
  • Fixed complicated CSS rules (Note: You need to edit the CSS files again 🙁 )
  • Autoprefixed CSS rules for browser compatibility
  • Removed Shortcode support
  • Removed FileSystem Cache, using WP_Options method instead
  • Added German, French, Spanish, Italian and Turkish translation (You can translate more with Loco Translate plugin, used google translate on most parts, sorry for that.)

TODO:

  • Track and artist corrections
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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • last fm
  • played songs
  • audioscrobbler
  • lastfm
  • recent
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 4.9

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 4.9.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to4.9
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.0.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity9 Dec 20178y ago

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