Wordpress Pandora Widget
I’ve been listening to PANDORA for some time now and wanted to display my profile in my blog. There are already a couple of ways to do this, # one you could get a pandora feed and use the rss widget to display it, # two you could go to www.pandora.com/feeds to fabricate a personal sidebar and paste it somewhere in your sidebar php code.
Now there is a third and more easy way to get your pandora stuff on your sidebar! The Wordpress PANDORA Widget! To see a demo, check out my sidebar.
Pandora.com widget Features:
- Display favorite songs, optionally with album art
- Display favorite artists
- Diplay your stations
- Optionally display “create station form”
Installation is simple, just upload the php file to your plugins widgets directory (you need the automattic.com widget plugin) and activate the widget in the wordpress admin plugins interface. Now you are ready to set things up in you sidebar.
Download your Wordpress Pandora Widget here!
February 14th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Hello Jean-Paul!
This is really a great Widget! Thanks for the good work!!! I took your widget and adapted it a litte for my own needs.
Perhabs I will release that work someday as a plugin. In that case, tribute will go to you of course!!!
February 14th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Glad you like it, once you have your version online I’d like to see it! Thx for the comment!
JP
February 15th, 2007 at 9:12 am
You’re welcome! You can see the plugin in action here.. Most part of the page is in German, but the lists show my favorites and my stations.
February 16th, 2007 at 5:27 am
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February 20th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
What changes to the php file do you have to do to make it display properly ?
February 20th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Basically you don’t have to change anything to the php file, the whole widget is ’stylable’ using CSS.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:07 am
hi,
i’m trying to add the pandora plugin and am trying to work out which bit of the php file i need to edit to add my profile details.
is it this line that needs to be edited? And what is my username?! my profile is http://www.pandora.com/people/pandora0464
$newoptions['username'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['pandora-username']));
thanks!
February 27th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Well in fact you don’t need to edit the php file at all. You should have the widgets plugin installed (http://automattic.com/code/widgets/) Then your theme should support widgets (read more on their side).
April 16th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I have a similar question. My Pandora widget is installed and shows in my sidebar. However, it only shows ‘Visit my Pandora profile’ and ‘powered by Pandora’. All the fun stuff does not appear.
My question is, what do I have to do? How does the widget get my username for Pandora, so it get my RSS-feed.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:03 am
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August 9th, 2007 at 5:29 am
For those wondering how to configure the widget once it’s installed: go to the Presentation:Widgets tab, drag the Pandora widget to the sidebar, then click the little icon that looks like a menu on the widget and you should see a little configuration window pop up.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:39 am
Hello,
Great widget!! I’ve installed it and it works great. However, I’m wondering if it generates random albums from my pandora bookmarks, or just the lastest. I’m guessing from the latest because it sat on the lasted songs I added until I added some more to my bookmark. It would be nice to have it randomly generate.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:33 am
Thanks for the widget! I’m going to install it now.
Once upon a time, I had a way to “scrobble” the tracks I listened to in Pandora so that they showed up in my LastFM profile (and could therefore be displayed in my Wordpress sidebar). Do you have any idea how to go about doing that? My old machine died, and for the life of me I can’t recall what combination of software I was using to do that.
Thanks!
Cyn
November 26th, 2007 at 10:18 am
I think OpenPandora is the program which could do that, I´ve been using that myself. You can get more info here: http://openpandora.googlepages.com/
Regards
December 14th, 2007 at 4:29 am
Great widget. I’m always looking for new things to add which means now I gotta substract in order to add. Thank you!
December 29th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
I wonder if it would be possible to develop a Pandora feed for Google Desktop. Or does anyone know of one already in existence?
I love Pandora.
Thanks SO MUCH for the plugin!
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February 18th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
This is a great widget, Thanks.
One question. How can i change the size of the album art displayed. Its to big for my side bar. Thanks again!
March 13th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
you have one of the coolest blogs I’ve seen! Lot’s of great info.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Works great, thank you very much!
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September 10th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Great Plugin, great work !
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November 17th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Is it possible to use your widget if Wordpress hosts my site? Or must I have it hosted somewhere else so I can get to the code?
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:33 am
I’m looking for a good music player for my blog, so I hope Pandora is it!
May 6th, 2009 at 8:35 am
pandora is the best, love the plugin thanks so much!
brent
@
mimoYmima.com
June 7th, 2009 at 12:03 am
I’m confused on where to put the php file, is this on your hard drive? I don’t have custom CSS upgrade, do I need this to add new widgets? Thanks! Indy
June 27th, 2009 at 7:46 am
very nice.many thanks for this plug-in