GigPress has been tested with WordPress versions 2.2.3 through 2.6. It is a free download, released under the GNU General Public License.

If you’re wicked stoked on it, and are feeling friendly, maybe you’ll consider making a small donation?

Installation and usage

After downloading, unzip the gigpress.zip file on your computer, then upload the gigpress folder to the wp-content/plugins directory on your web server. It should then appear on the Plugins page in your WordPress administration panel. Upon activation, there will be a new top-level menu in the WordPress admin called GigPress. That will be your ticket.

For details on displaying the tour dates you enter into GigPress on your site, please refer to the documentation.

Upgrading

1. Deactivate GigPress on the Plugins page of your WordPress administration panel.
2. Delete the gigpress folder from your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Upload the new gigpress folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
4. Activate GigPress on the Plugins page of your WordPress administration panel.

Languages

GigPress is fully internationalized, and currently includes language files for Basque, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.

Version history

• 1.3.4 (July 17th, 2008)
  • Fixed a bug that prevented language files from being loaded under WordPress 2.6
  • Fixed an XHTML validation error in the upcoming/past shows table output
• 1.3.3 (July 3rd, 2008)
  • Fixed a bug where past shows wouldn’t appear in the admin in certain cases
  • Revised and optimized the code that fetches recent posts for the “related post” drop-down when adding a show, as posts were being retrieved in the wrong order in some circumstances
  • Added compatibility with WordPress 2.6’s ability to relocate the wp-content directory
• 1.3.2 (June 20th, 2008)
  • Lowered the number of posts retrieved in the drop-down on the “Add a show” page to 100, as the previous 1000-post limit could cause PHP memory errors in some cases
  • Fixed a bug where deleted shows were still appearing in the sidebar and RSS feed
  • Added Basque, Hungarian and Norwegian translations
• 1.3.1 (April 18th, 2008)
  • Fixed a bug where the phrase “opens in a new window” that appears in the title attribute of certain links was not getting translated.
  • Added German, Polish and Swedish translations
• 1.3 (April 10th, 2008)
  • New feature: associate each show with a post in WordPress
  • New feature: copy any existing show to the “Add a show” screen for faster data entry
  • Tours can now be reordered
  • Added option to display tours before or after non-tour shows
  • Added the option to not segment the tour listing into tours and individuals shows
  • Added option to open Google maps, venue, and ticket-buy links in a new window
  • The date, time, country and tour fields are now all “sticky,” so their last-used values will be loaded into the “Add a show” form each time
  • Added “undo” option immediately after deleting shows and tours
  • Add visual cues for required fields on the “Add a show” screen
  • GigPress will now look for a style sheet called gigpress.css in your current theme folder in order to load custom styles
  • More styling fixes for visual compatibility with WordPress 2.5
  • Dropped official support for Wordpress 2.1.3
• 1.2.7 (February 18th, 2008)
  • Added Spanish and French translation files
  • Fixed a few text strings that weren’t getting translated
  • Add gettext() wrappers to month names, which will allow them to be translated by the core WordPress language file
  • Removed some stray quotation marks in the welcome message
  • Fixed a bug where under certain conditions the sidebar widget would not show the “no upcoming shows” message
  • Added an extra span and class to the fields displayed in the “gigpress-info” cell of the shows table to allow for further styling flexibility
  • The javascript used by GigPress in the WordPress admin will now only load on the GigPress “Add a show” page to prevent potential conflict with other plugins’ scripts
  • Modified some of the markup and CSS in the admin area to better suit the forthcoming admin design in WordPress 2.5
• 1.2.6 (February 12th, 2008)
  • GigPress is now fully internationalized - language files for Italian, Hungarian, and Dutch included
  • The ’show time’ field can now be set to ‘N/A’ - if so it will not display
  • Added option to choose your default country when adding new shows
  • Fixed a bug where under certain configurations shows would move to the archive on the day of the show
  • Changed default encoding of the database tables to UTF-8
• 1.2.2 (January 31st, 2008)
  • Fixed a bug where past shows would not display if there were no tours in the database
  • Increased compatibility with certain configurations of MySQL 5
• 1.2.1 (January 30th, 2008)
  • The jQuery library used by GigPress was disabling the drag and drop on the WordPress widgets page. GigPress now uses the jQuery version bundled with WordPress instead (but will load its own in WordPress versions prior to 2.2)
• 1.2 (January 29th, 2008)
  • Added a “time” field
  • Added the ability to make shows span multiple days
  • Added option to select a user-level required to use GigPress
  • Add option to display a link to your upcoming shows page beneath the sidebar listing
  • Fixed a bug where the sidebar listing wouldn’t display any shows if the tour segmenting option was on, but there were no tours in the database
  • The “Admittance” field will now not display if it’s set to “Not sure”
  • Fixed various issues in the countries list
  • Display of the Country column can now be disabled
  • Added element IDs to the header row of each tour in shows table (eg. #tour-2)
  • Updated Options page to refelect new features
  • Added a <link> element to each item in the RSS feed, linked to the page set on the options page
• 1.1.1 (December 2nd, 2007)
  • Fixed a stray tag in the code that mangled the sidebar output when using it via the template tag with tour segmentation active
• 1.1 (December 2nd, 2007)
  • Added RSS feed for upcoming shows
  • Add option to split gigpress_sidebar output into tours
  • Added filter on all output in the admin and in the template functions to strip slashes and encode HTML entities (oops!)
• 1.0 (November 20th, 2007) - Initial release