>This widget works great so far but is it possible to display Top Albums of a particular genre?
as is: no
>Will you be adding support for this soon
there are no plans to do that.
this widget was built quite some time ago for a particular need i had (i.e showing albums and whatnot of a particular artist).
it was also the first wordpress plugin i ever built and it definitely is a bit convoluted in places. (i.e i would build this quite differently if i were to do this again today with the stuff i know now how wordpress does things)
either way.
the place to look at (if memory serves me right) is in ajax/get-json.php
aon approx line 220 , you’ll find:
$requesturl=''.$baseUrl.''.implode("&",$cUrlGetVars).'';
which will construct the url sent to apple to get the relevant reults (which btw looks something like this
https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=32940&country=GB&lang=en_us&explicit=Yes&entity=album,movie,podcast,audiobook,ebook,software,tvSeason,song&limit=200&version=2
rather than the webobjects stuff you posted see: https://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html)
if i were you and wanted to play with this stuff, i would do somthing like the following:
ABOVE the $requesturl variable I was talking above, i would insert
$cUrlGetVars = apply_filters('ilw_filter_request', $cUrlGetVars);
now, in your themes functions.php add something like this to play around without having to mess around any further with the core files.
add_filter('ilw_filter_request', 'my_ilw_request',10,2);
function my_ilw_request($cUrlGetVars,$postVars) {
/************************************************
change the vars as appropriate here depending
on whatever was posted etc
************************************************/
return $cUrlGetVars;
}
the above should get you on the way i would have thought
hope that helps
