From a User Perspective: The Spotify Albums plugin lets you interact with the Spotify API and leverage the Album functionality. The plugin will get the album cover art and also a list of tracks given the album ID and render it within a widget. Since this is the initial version, it leverages the open Spotify API and does not yet require any OAuth Key for now. From a WordPress Plugin Developer Perspective: The Spotify Albums plugin was written alongside a series of step-by-step tutorials on Digital Opium. Aside from your usual hello-world type tutorials, we have decided to use a rather popular software’s API, Spotify, and demonstrate a few key areas in WordPress Plugin Development: -Options page in the Dashboard and saving/retrieving options -Widget setup including the unique naming of client-side names/ids/functions to allow for multiple instances -Leveraging the WordPress pre-included version of jQuery and performing AJAX calls -To be extended at the request of users. -Use of PHP Namespaces Through this approach, not only will they have a simple to use plugin but if they desire, they can also learn from it, extend and write their own.
