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WordPress Tip: iTunes Integration via last.fm

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So, you’ve got a personal blog and want to integrate your iTunes playlist into WordPress, but don’t just want to say that you’re listening to a CD – you want to display the album art too? WordPress has a few solutions that work great.  The easiest way to do that is by utilizing the “scrobbler” built into last.fm – on which an API can export just about any data you need.  Cue last.fm records and last.fm recent album artwork.

These plugins will take your last X number of CD covers from last.fm and displays them.  last.fm records has a nice caching system, and it’s one I’ve used personally, but recent album artwork has gotten a lot of positive reviews.

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    If you run a blog (or a church site with some sort of event calendar or news section), having a place where your visitors and members can share your content is absolutely invaluable.  Sometimes all it takes is for people to start spreading the word about an event. By giving them the chance to do so,…

  • Two Recently Updated Plugins YOU Should Be Using

    Two Recently Updated Plugins YOU Should Be Using

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    Every now and then, just because I’m the biggest WordPress dork I know, I like to just peruse the plugin database to see what’s been updated recently.  After all, how can you use new plugins if you don’t know they’re there?  I’m glad I looked when I did – I found a few plugins that…