Songkick Concerts and Festivals free WordPress 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