My first Wordpress Plugin
Hey guys! I wanted to let everyone know about a new project I am working on. I just began coding my very first Wordpress Plugin/Widget.
Sure it’s going to be hard, sure it’s going to be a “trial and error” game, but it’s going to be a great learning experience and hopefully very useful tool.
The widget will be a sidebar version of my new favorite open source web app, OpenTape. See mine in action here. It will allow you to listen to your mixtape right on your sidebar.
OpenTape provides a sleek/simple/friendly way of sharing your mixtape with the world. You can load OpenTape up with as many songs as you want and send your friends a link to listen. OpenTape is hosted on your personal server so you have full control of your mixtape.
Check back soon for more updates on my progress. If you have any feature request please contact me at michael@michaelwschultz.com or leave a comment below.
9 Responses to “My first Wordpress Plugin”
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LANverse on January 4th, 2009
It would definitely be nice to have the opentape wordpress plugin for a sidebar widget. I am looking to incorporate it into about 4-6 blogs I run, so keep me informed on your progress and good luck!
davisfarris on January 6th, 2009
What a sweet idea Michael. I love sharing my music with other people and what an easy way this would be. This way people don’t have to navigate away from the first page. Great call. Keep me updated man and good luck.
Davis on January 14th, 2009
What is your status on this plug-in?
Matthew Rutledge on January 29th, 2009
I have been hoping someone would finally do this – I love opentape and I love wordpress but I want some kind of way that the PHP can execute within a page on WordPress or of course on a sidebar. Right now using IFRAMES will do but this is exactly what I want. Let me know if I can help (I am not a programming expert but I do have many many opentape directories on my web server and a few blogs, so if you need a beta tester or want to talk to someone who is familiar with opentape, let me know.
Michael on February 1st, 2009
Awesome man, glad your into it. I will be sure and update you on my progress as I get further along. Thanks for the comment!
Anika on May 29th, 2009
Very interesting read, I think their would be a lot of mixed opinions on this. Love the theme that you are using, what is it?
jerome on July 13th, 2009
Hello, i search “wordpress opentape” on google, and i found your blog, any news?
Thanks for your project.
Rudwolf on September 15th, 2009
Hey man, want some help? You could place an paypal donation button, would that cheer you up to work more on the project?
Guess what.. I think that a lot of people that commented your blog would sure love to help you donating, coding takes time, and brains, that must worth something right? (I’m a programmer too so I know that)
Well, tell me about the progress if you can and please put a donation button on the page man! Cheers!
Gray on September 22nd, 2009
any progress? i’d love to test it for you!