Songkick Concerts and Festivals 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

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 🙂

1. Upload the directory “songkick_concerts_and_festivals” to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory
2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu
3. Go to the Settings page for Songkick or the Widgets page and set your username/artist/venue/metro area ID.
4. Please read through Songkick’s API terms of use. If you have a commercial website, please apply for your own API key here: http://www.songkick.com/developer and configure it on the Settings page.
5. Add the widget to a sidebar or the shortcode anywhere in your blog.

1. 

   Widget for a user.

0.6

• Added shortcode.

0.7

• Fixed some warnings.
• Made calendar date style inline.

0.8

• Fixed bug where shortcode content would always display on top of other content.

0.9

• Default options can be overridden when calling shortcode function. This means you can use the plugin for different users and artists.
  See Songkick’s admin settings for details.

0.9.1

• Refactored events and presentable event code.
• Improved exception handling and error logging (thanks Ethan).
• Improved documentation.
• Added option to hide calendar style for dates (no_calendar_style=true)

0.9.2

• Support for displaying metro area events.

0.9.3

• Support for displaying venue events.
• Markup with support for events as defined by Schema.org
• Paginated list of events for shortcode option.

0.9.4

• Reimplementation of the Widget class. Allows for multilple Widget instances.
• Remove requirement for an API key for non-commercial websites.

0.9.4.1

• Fixing up and removing warnings

0.9.4.2

• Sort order of past events is descending

0.9.4.3

• Bug fix: Fixing error when displaying a user’s upcoming events

0.9.4.4

• Catching any error when testing Songkick API key. Some users reported seeing a “name lookup” error on the Settings page.

0.9.4.5

• Option to turn off API caching.

0.9.4.6

• Display end date of festivals.

0.9.4.7

• Add Italian translation

0.9.4.8

• Use __construct instead of classname as this will be deprecated

0.9.4.9

• BUG fix: correctly localise date strings in calendar

0.9.5

• Upgrade to support PHP 8

0.9.6

• Bug fix: prevent settings page from breaking when Songkick API is unavailable

0.9.7

• Use https to connect to Songkick API