G33Z3R Birthday Song & Retro Music Widgets

What was the #1 song the day you were born? This plugin embeds a small, fun tool on your site: a visitor picks their birthday and instantly sees the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single for that exact chart week — from 1959 all the way through 2025 — with a one-tap link to play it. Perfect for music blogs, nostalgia sites, class-reunion and alumni pages, birthday and party-planning posts, and classroom pages.

• Free forever — no account, no API key, no ads, and no tracking of your visitors.
• Accurate — the real Billboard Hot 100 #1 for the visitor's exact chart week, not a year-end average.
• Covers 1959–2025 — every week of the Hot 100.
• Lightweight — a single responsive iframe, no heavy scripts loaded on your pages.
• Three ways to add it — a block, a shortcode, or a classic widget.
• Matches your site — dark or light theme, your own accent colour, and your own heading.

Three widgets, one plugin

• #1 Song On Your Birthday — a visitor picks any date and sees the Billboard #1 for that exact chart week. Works for birthdays, anniversaries, wedding days, and graduations.
• Today's Flashback — a different retro song every day, with the year and a link to play it. Set it once; it never goes stale.
• Question of the Day — a fresh retro music debate daily ("Walkman or Discman?"). Great comment bait.

The daily widgets update on our side, so there is nothing to maintain — paste once and your page stays fresh forever. The tools are provided by G33Z3R Radio, a Gen-X music-memory site. We host no music — the play buttons link out to Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube. Third-party service disclosure. This plugin displays widgets served by G33Z3R Radio, a service operated by us at https://g33z3r.com. When a page containing a widget loads, the visitor's browser requests it from https://g33z3r.com/embed/ (/embed/birthday, /embed/flashback, or /embed/qotd) and renders it in an iframe. This plugin does not collect or send any personal data about your visitors, the widgets run no scripts on your site, and they set no cookies of any kind. Your use of the service is subject to the G33Z3R Radio Privacy Policy (https://g33z3r.com/legal/privacy) and Terms (https://g33z3r.com/legal/terms). An optional "Powered by" credit link is available but is turned OFF by default — you choose whether to show it.

1. Upload the g33z3r-birthday-song folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install it from the Plugins screen in WordPress.
2. Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" screen.
3. Add a widget any of three ways:
4. Block (easiest): in the editor, click + and search for "G33Z3R" — pick #1 Song On Your Birthday, Today's Flashback, or Question of the Day. Set the theme, colour, and heading in the sidebar; you'll see a live preview.
5. Shortcode: [g33z3r_birthday_song], [g33z3r_flashback], or [g33z3r_question] in any post or page.
6. Classic widget: Appearance → Widgets → "G33Z3R Birthday Song".

Optional shortcode attributes (all three shortcodes accept them): [g33z3r_flashback theme="light" accent="2ff3ff" heading="Today on WXYZ" width="360" credit="yes"]

• theme — dark (default) or light. Use light on light-coloured sites; it also switches to a darker accent that stays readable on a pale background.
• accent — a hex colour (with or without the #) so the widget matches your brand.
• heading — your own heading inside the widget, e.g. a station or site name.
• width / height — pixel size. It's responsive and never wider than its container; leave height off to use the size that fits each widget.
• credit — off by default; shows an optional "Powered by G33Z3R Radio" link.

1.1.1

• Fixed: the banner and icon now display on the WordPress.org listing. The standard sizes (772x250 and 128x128) were missing — the high-DPI versions only work as an add-on to them, never on their own.

1.1.0

• New: block editor support — three blocks (#1 Song On Your Birthday, Today's Flashback, Question of the Day) with a live preview and sidebar controls.
• New: two more widgets — Today's Flashback ([g33z3r_flashback]) and Question of the Day ([g33z3r_question]).
• New: light theme (theme="light") for light-coloured sites, with an accent that stays readable on a pale background.
• Fixed: the default height for the birthday widget could clip the revealed result on some themes.

1.0.0

• Initial release: [g33z3r_birthday_song] shortcode and the "G33Z3R Birthday Song" widget.
• Theming: accent and heading attributes (plus an "Accent colour" field on the widget) so the tool matches your site.