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WordPress Runkeeper plugin

After searching the wordpress plugin site and searching the internet I decided to take the plunge and produce my first wordpress plugin.

This has been done as a bit of fun in the evening. I am not a programer so i have taught myself everything.

As a result this may not be the most efficent or tidy plugin ever made. However, it seems to work for me.

It works by getting the runkeeper json feed and then i grab the values that i want to display. I then display the values using similar html and css.

Anyway I am releasing the code so that if anyone is interested in using it or would like to improve it they can.

Simply download the zip file and unpack it into your wordpress plugin directory.

Then activate the plugin via the normal way.

When you want to display the activity details in your post just type wprunkeeper activity=”(activityid)” in [ ]

The activity id can be got by looking at your runkeeper page. In the url it displays the activity id.

Again i can not stress enough that all of this is done in good faith. Please use at your own risk.

wprunkeeper plugin

12 Comments on WordPress Runkeeper plugin

  1. Michael
    May 31, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    Sweet work, but I’m afraid I can’t find the download link. I might be blind. 🙂

    Also, ‘white’ text on a field of #E3E3E3 is a bit hard to read for me. 😉

    Thanks again for your efforts.

  2. Peter
    May 31, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    Have added the link and will change the submit button. Thanks for the feedback

  3. Michael Johnson
    May 31, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    Very cool, I’ve been looking for a way to include runs on my blog.

    I might have to tweak it a little, but I’ll definatly use it.

    Thanks

  4. Peter
    May 31, 2011 at 5:23 pm

    Let me know what you change. All feedback would be great

  5. John Ball
    July 24, 2011 at 3:59 am

    A few notes
    To get the content from RunKeeper you need to put [wprunkeeper activity="ACTIVITYID"] in the post (where ACTIVITYID is the actual numerals at the end of the RunKeeper URL).
    If your RunKeeper activities are set to Street Team or Me Only you’ll get an error when posting the data to WordPress. Make sure that your RunKeeper settings allow for Everyone to view the data (maps are optional).

  6. Wilfred Smit
    July 25, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    Hi Peter,

    Great work on this plugin. The plugin returns distances in miles. Is there a possibility that it shows km, while I’m living in the Netherlands.

    Regards,
    – Wilfred

  7. Neil
    September 5, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    Hey Great app!

    Just a question, my Stats are in KM and not miles, can i get your app to display metric? the stats come up in KM’s just has miles, feet etc for the distances on my blog.

    Thanks!

    Neil

  8. Peter
    September 5, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    I will have a look at the xml to see it it returns km or miles. If it does it should be easy to add

    Peter

  9. Neil
    September 13, 2011 at 10:42 am

    Thanks peter!

  10. Björn
    March 8, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    Hi, I only get the labels and no data? So for me it doesnt work…

  11. RelentlessRunner
    April 29, 2012 at 12:46 pm

    Hi there, I got it working without a hitch, brilliant little plugin so thank you.

    I wondered if there was anyway to quickly modify this to pull the total activity stats for your Runkeeper account, i.e. total miles, activities etc? I don’t know much about web programming but it would seem easy enough to pull the total stats rather than a specific activity?

    Any ideas?

    Thanks again!

  12. MTJM
    October 2, 2012 at 1:47 am

    The plugin works, but visually its just showing the content and now how your screenshot looks. Also is there a way to have it update to the latest activity?

    Thank you

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