A new powerful feature presented in WordTour v.1.2.4.0 is multiple artist attachment for each event. Until now you could only add additional artists featured in your event as a free text, while with the additional feature it is possible to add for each event multiple artists that are defined in your database thereby keeping track of each artist activity in your website. It is still possible to define artists as a free text if you don’t want to add an artist to your database.
How does it effect your event rendering ?
While displaying a listing of events you will be able to use the new parameter {$artists} and {$artists_array} in your template file.
{$artists} param will display a comma separated string of your artists and {$artists_array} is an array of artist with the values of “id”, “name”, “url” that you can loop in your template file.
The next example demonstrates how to use the artists_array parameter resulting with a list of artists linked to each artist page.
{loop $artists_array}
<a href=”{$url}”>{$name}</a>
{/loop}
In addition, while displaying events that are grouped by artist you can choose whether an artist that is not headlined for the show will be displayed in the list or not by using the “if_event_not_headline” parameter in your wordtour_events shortcode definition.
Skinning your theme can sometimes be a very frustrating task for those that are not familiar with CSS and coding abilities. To help you skin the theme, a new theme has been added to WordTour named “jqueryui” that uses the JQuery UI framework CSS coding style, thus enabling you to manipulate your theme with the JQuery UI theme roller by bringing it to your page.
To do that you need to create a Firefox bookmarklet, click here to add.
After you decided which theme fits your site, download the CSS, copy and paste the code in your theme.css file. (please note: don’t overwrite the the file, look for a comment JQUERY UI CSS START HERE – PLACE YOUR CSS HERE and paste it afterward)
For more on using JQuery UI CSS click here
