Show your artists tour dates from Songkick vs Songkick Concerts and Festivals

With this plugin you can add your favorite artists tour dates list in any place of your website. You can insert it using: Gutenberg blocks. Widget. Shortcode. It includes all configurable options available in songkick: – Show other artists. – Show Subscribe button. – Use my theme styles. – Theme background light or dark. – Text color. – Background color. Configuration Once the extension is installed you will have a new menu option: Songkick. At this page you can add 3 different artists. You can search the artist by name and it will show you its ID. Then you must copy this ID in the fields “Artist 1 ID”, “Artist 2 ID” or “Artist 3 ID”. The other options are for styling the list if you use shortcodes. If you use widget or Gutenberg block you will have this options in the configuration. After all you must save changes at the end of the page. To use the shortcode you must add the title and the Artist Field where you previously put the ID. IT would be like this: [cvw_songkick_events id=”1″ title=”Next concerts of Music group name”] If you use the widget or the Gutenbergt block you will have a select of the artist to show.

This plugin lets you display upcoming or past events for a Songkick user, artist, venue, or metro area on your WordPress blog. Events can be displayed by adding the Songkick widget to your template, or by adding the shortcode [songkick_concerts_and_festivals] anywhere in your blog. Features Upcoming events for an artist Past events for an artist Upcoming events for a venue Upcoming events for a user Past events for a user Upcoming events for a metro area. A metro area is a city or a collection of cities that Songkick uses to notify users of concerts near them. Widget or shortcode format Show events for multiple artists, users, venues, or metro areas. Paginated list of events HTML markup with support for events as defined by Schema.org Requirements This plugin uses a non-commercial Songkick API key. If you have a commercial website, you’ll need your own Songkick API key. Please read through Songkick’s API terms of use. Apply for a key here: Songkick API docs This plugin requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher Settings Go to the Settings page to configure default options for the plugin. You can also specify your settings under Plugins/Widget or via shortcode options. For a user, simply put your username in the admin interface. For an artist, you should use the artist’s Songkick id, as shown in the url for your artist page. For example, the url “http://www.songkick.com/artists/123-your-name” has the id “123”. The same goes for metro areas: “http://www.songkick.com/metro_areas/123-city-name” has the id “123”. And venues: “http://www.songkick.com/venues/123-venue-name” has the id “123”. Widget Go to the admin Widgets page and simply drag the widget into a sidebar and configure it. Shortcode Add the shortcode [songkick_concerts_and_festivals] in the content of any blog post. When using a shortcode, you can set which artist, venue, metro area, or user you want to display events for, allowing you to show events for different entities: Users: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_username songkick_id_type=user] Artists: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_artist_id songkick_id_type=artist] Venues: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_venue_id songkick_id_type=venue] Metro areas: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_metro_area_id songkick_id_type=metro_area] Override shortcode settings: gigography=true|false number_of_events=integer show_pagination=true|false no_calendar_style=true|false — removes the calendar style from the event dates order=asc|desc – sort order for artist or user events PHP code You can call the shortcode method directly in your PHP code: Blogs using this plugin Know any blogs using this plugin? Let me know! Contribute This is an open source project that I maintain during my spare time. I welcome contributions! The code lives on Github. To send your contribution, fork my project, make your lovely changes, and send me a pull request. Thanks 🙂