Acidboxblues Visual Grid for Bandcamp
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Display a grid of Bandcamp albums on your WordPress site with customisable layouts and automatic data caching.
Acidboxblues Visual Grid for Bandcamp is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display your Bandcamp discography in a responsive grid layout. Suitable for musicians, labels, and music blogs who want to showcase their Bandcamp releases on their WordPress site.
Features
- Responsive grid layout that adjusts to any screen size
- Customisable columns between 1 and 6 (default: 2)
- Automatic data fetching retrieves album titles, artwork, and release dates from Bandcamp
- Caches album data for faster page loads
- Sort albums by release date or title, ascending or descending
- Simple shortcode implementation
- Cache updates automatically twice daily
- New: Real-time visual progress bar and status updates when manually refreshing the cache
- Built with WordPress security best practices and data validation
How It Works
- Add your Bandcamp album URLs to the plugin settings (one per line)
- The plugin fetches album information (title, artwork, release date) from each URL
- Data is cached for performance
- Display your albums anywhere using the [acidvigr_visual_grid] shortcode
- Cache updates automatically twice daily to keep your discography current
Suitable For
- Musicians displaying their discography
- Record labels displaying their catalogue
- Music blogs featuring artist collections
- Music review sites
- Bandcamp Friday promotions