Zune Social WordPress Plugin

This plugin adds three new widgets to your WordPress blog for Zune owners:

  1. The Zune Card (Flash object) from the Zune Social site which shows your recently listened songs, albums, and favorites
  2. A list of songs you recently listened to
  3. A list of your favorite songs

Download:
dg-zunesocial.zip (version 1.2 beta)

The lists can display album art, song names, or both, and are presented as an ordered list for easy styling. This is a widgetized plugin, so you can add any of these things to your widget-enabled theme with a recent version of WordPress from the Presentation menu in your admin area.

For older WordPress installs and non-widget-enabled themes, the following functions are made available to use in your themes (ex: your sidebar.php):

Display a small Zune Card

<?php zunecard(’small’, ‘Your Zune Tag’); ?>

Display a large Zune Card:

<?php zunecard(’small’, ‘Your Zune Tag’); ?>

Display a list of recent or favorite songs:

<?php zune_songs($zunetag, $mode, $limit, $showart); ?>

Options for zune_songs():
     $zunetag: Your Zune Tag
     $mode: Either “recent” or “favorites”
     $limit: Number of songs to display (ex: 5)
     $showart: yes (song name + album art),
          no (song name only),
          only (album art only)

Example to display the 5 last songs you listened to with no album art:

<?php zune_songs(’yourtag’, ‘recent’, 5, ‘no’); ?>

Thank you to Zune for making the Zune Social!

Output Examples

These are the output from the plugin without any styling applied.

Small Zune Card

Large Zune Card

Recent Songs List (no art)

  1. Internet Explorer 8 ...
  2. Life is Like a Boat
  3. LIFE
  4. Kirakira ~Himawari ver.~
  5. Inner Universe

Favorite Songs List (with art)

  1. Wish (Ending Theme) [T... (Ah! My Goddess, Vol. 1) Wish (Ending Theme) [T...
  2. Open Your Mind: Spread... (All of Me [Bonus DVD]) Open Your Mind: Spread...
  3. Inner Universe (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) Inner Universe
  4. * Asterisk [From Bleach] (Jpop CD, Vol. 2) * Asterisk [From Bleach]
  5. * Asterisk [From Bleach] (Jpop CD, Vol. 2) * Asterisk [From Bleach]

Recent Songs List (art only)

  1. Internet Explorer 8 ... (SitePoint Podcast)
  2. Life is Like a Boat (Life is Like a Boat)
  3. LIFE (LIFE)
  4. Kirakira ~Himawari ver.~ (OpEd Themes)
  5. Inner Universe (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex)

Change Log

  • 1.0: Initial Zune Card plugin release
  • 1.1: Zune Card plugin merged into Zune Social plugin
  • 1.1: Zune Social plugin adds Recent Songs, Favorite Songs widgets
  • 1.2: Added url-encoding of Zune Tags to handle names with spaces better in some embed scenarios

8 Responses

  1. Dan Grossman » Zune Social Plugin

    November 13th, 2007

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  3. Marijan

    December 4th, 2007

    hey!

    BIG BIG thx 4 this plugin! works very fine with my wordpress!

    i got my zune today and tought: i need a zuneplugin for my wordpress - and here it is!

    thx =)

  4. RedMoze

    January 24th, 2008

    Thanks! greatest plugin for wp!

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  6. Matt Mallory

    May 6th, 2008

    Any chance you can update for Wordpress 2.5? I get a PHP error now.

  7. Thomas

    May 10th, 2008

    Do you know if there is an RSS feed for Zune profile data, recent songs, favorited songs, etc? Would love to use that in a Lifestream.

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    October 10th, 2008

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