The Imeem plugin, was designed for music lovers and musician. It looks at the tags used for the post (so pick them wisely) and then queries Imeem.com. It searches Imeem for all playlists which use the same tags as the ones provided in the post. If there is a match it uses the highest relevance value to then pull back information. Got it?

Now that we have the background out of the way let’s take a closer look at the plugin itself. The image on the left is an example of the output generated from one of my posts (on a different site) where the post article was about “Green Day” and their recent album release “21st Century Breakdown”. When I created the post I used “21st Century Breakdown” as one of my tags and BAM! back came the widget. Ok, so it wasn’t that easy…it was almost that easy. There are a few steps before making the post to make the widget work…are you ready?

Step 1

• Download the plugin…you can’t expect it to work if you haven’t downloaded it.
  

Step 2

• You got it, install the darn plugin

Step 3

• In the bottom left column of the admin panel you will see tab for “ImeemSearch”. Click on ImeemSearch to configure the plugin
• Once in the ImeemSearch configuration panel simple configure the width, height, number of records to search (higher the number the longer it takes), and whether you want to give me a little credit
• Don’t forget to save your settings

Step 4

• Ok, here comes the hard part. If you have never messed with any code this part might be a little hard.
• If you expect to put this player in the sidebar…
  • Go to the ‘Appearance’ option in the Admin Panel
  • Go to Editor under ‘Appearance’
  • Select ‘Main Index Temlate’ (index.php)
  • add the following within the post loop and right after the following statement (<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>) add the following’
    
<?php
$posttags = get_the_tags();
if ($posttags) {
foreach($posttags as $tag) {
$mytag = $tag->name . " ";
}
$clean_tag = str_replace(" ",",",$mytag);
}
?>

    
  • Select sidebar.php
  • add the following after the sidebar div… ‘<?php wp_imeemsearch_feed($clean_tag); ?>‘
• Once you have saved those changes you are done…

You Did It…Hope you enjoy the plugin

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