I wanted to change up how a plugin worked on my blog. Namely the Listen one.
Out-of-the-box
Looking at it after install if allowed me to capture someting I had listened too. I could link to somewhere that'd let others here it, and put in "cover art" and some notes. All fantastic.
Couple of things I wanted to change:
- artist closer to the title, and not after my notes
- icon indicating song, podcast, etc.
- definition between my notes and what I had listened to
Breaking stuff
So I "forked the repo" and basically spent today pulling apart and putting back togther PHP code that I had no idea did what.
I found that the 'listen types' weren't being pulled through to assign an icon to, so I commented out a large section and replaced it with a simple <select> element. This seems to have worked, though I don't know (yet) how to retain what I selected if I edit the post.
I've now got it looking a lot more how I wanted and it sees the listen type and shows the matching icon.
Also did some more changes while I was feeling brave:
- I added a lot more types including soundtrack and audio book
- Changed the titles to past tense
- Updated the edit page by matching labels to fields, wrapping fields in <p>, and changed some of the language used there too
Going forward
I've posted on the #indieweb IRC that I've made the changes, so I'll see if, and how, anyone wants to merge these into the plugin.
I'd love to get Last.FM and Huffduffer integrated so they post automagically.
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Listened to
the album,
Departed Glories
