{"id":72140,"date":"2012-02-23T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=72140"},"modified":"2012-02-23T01:45:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T06:45:30","slug":"how-to-display-your-latest-spotify-activity-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/how-to-display-your-latest-spotify-activity-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Display Your Latest Spotify Activity in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-72641\" title=\"spotify-feature\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/spotify-feature.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"280\" height=\"205\" \/>If you haven&#8217;t joined in the Spotify craze, you may be missing out on one of the finest social music sharing apps to hit the scene.<\/p>\n<p>When I first tried the app I thought, &#8220;Wow, Spotify is faster than the internet itself!&#8221; It&#8217;s lightning fast. Pumping out a feed to Facebook of all of the songs you listen to can be a bit annoying and overwhelming to your friends and followers. A better place for that is to show your latest activity in the sidebar of your WordPress blog.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Latest Spotify Activity\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/latest-spotify-activity\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latest Spotify Activity<\/a> plugin for WordPress lets you display a stream of the latest songs you&#8217;ve listened to right on your website. It even shows which song is currently playing on your Spotify app. Here&#8217;s how to get it working:<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1: Signup for a Last.fm account (if you&#8217;re not already a member)<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last.fm<\/a> account is required for showing your latest activity. It&#8217;s free &#8211; all you have to do is sign up and have a username to enter into the plugin&#8217;s settings.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 2: Enable Last.fm scrobbling in your Spotify app&#8217;s preferences.<\/h2>\n<p>This part of the step is done within Spotify. Since Spotify doesn&#8217;t currently have an API, you will have to use &#8220;Last.fm Scrobbling&#8221; to display your latest songs. To set up scrobbling, simply open the user preferences in Spotify. Enter your Last.fm username and password and check <strong>&#8220;Scrobble to Last.fm&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72615\" title=\"spotify-preferences\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/spotify-preferences.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"715\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Step 3: Install the Latest Spotify Activity plugin.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-72617\" title=\"latest-spotify\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/latest-spotify.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"286\" height=\"358\" \/>The <a title=\"Latest Spotify Activity\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/latest-spotify-activity\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latest Spotify Activity<\/a> plugin is available for free from the WordPress plugin repository. Install and activate it and then you&#8217;ll have the option to add the widget to your sidebar or any other widgetized area.<\/p>\n<p>Input your username, select how many recent activities you want to show and click save. It will look something similar to the one pictured here.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! Now you&#8217;ll be streaming all of your latest activity from Spotify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out our easy tutorial for showing your latest Spotify activity on your WordPress site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":72642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[52],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-72140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-widgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216551,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72140\/revisions\/216551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72140"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=72140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}