This is a small project to become more familiar with creating custom post types and templates in WordPress, as well as interacting with an API. It was a great way to learn and fun, too, and opens up a treasure box of ways to build web apps using WordPress.
I implemented the starter theme Understrap, which combines _underscores with Bootstrap 4, both of which I’ve wanted to play with.
I created a child theme to add styles and templates. I also used SASS, Gulp and Browsersync, for the first time (after using LESS and Grunt for a while).
Have a look at the repo for the theme and the custom template.
You can find a page of bands and artists here - http://theyoricktouch.com/news/top-bands
The data is supplied by Songkick API with relevant images from Skiddle.
Still to come:
- Refined design, optimisation and gamification
- In-page form for adding bands
- Create more fun info from data - eg number of festivals, number of times playing big venues, billing, and more
You can simply add an artist and the data will be automatically generated from the APIs or you can add your own data.
I’ve added a user (contributor role), so feel free to add more Top Bands: http://theyoricktouch.com/news/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=top_bands Username: toptrump p/w: topTrump5Band5
Have fun!