About this plugin
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
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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 🙂