GigRoute Events

GigRoute Events is a WordPress event management plugin built for music bands, artists, stand-up performers, show-business teams, venues, and entertainment websites that need a clean way to publish upcoming shows and guide visitors toward tickets.

The plugin adds a dedicated Event post type, event details, ticket URLs, location taxonomies, event statuses, posters, frontend filters, and a dynamic Gutenberg block for displaying tour dates and live events anywhere on your site.

Whether you manage a band website, a comedy tour page, an artist profile, a festival landing page, or a promotional website for live shows, GigRoute Events helps you keep event information structured, searchable, and easy to promote.

Built for ticket promotion

GigRoute Events is designed to help visitors move from event discovery to ticket action. Each event can include a Ticket URL, venue information, date and time, city, state, country, event type, status, and optional poster image.

This makes it easier to build pages such as:

• Upcoming tour dates
• Concert schedules
• Stand-up show calendars
• Festival appearances
• Artist event listings
• Venue and city-based event pages
• Ticket-focused landing pages

The frontend block can show a clear “Buy tickets” link for each event and automatically switch to a sold-out label when the event is marked as sold out.

Key features

• Custom Event post type with title, editor, excerpt, and featured image support.
• Event date and time fields with local timezone handling and stored UTC values.
• Ticket URL and external event source URL fields.
• Venue name, latitude, longitude, and related post ID fields.
• Event Type, Event Status, City, State, Country, and Tour Series taxonomies.
• Default Event Type and Event Status management.
• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code support for event countries.
• Gutenberg block for displaying event lists on pages and posts.
• Upcoming, past, and all-events display modes.
• Optional frontend filters by event type, country, city, status, and series.
• Optional pagination for event lists.
• Configurable event date output formats.
• Optional ticket links in frontend event lists.
• Sold-out and free-event metadata.
• Event poster image support.
• Optional global poster for all events.
• Optional poster link wrapping for ticket or promotional links.
• REST JSON endpoint for public event data.
• REST response caching with cache headers and debug information for administrators.
• SEO controls for hiding individual event pages and preventing indexing.
• Classic theme template fallback for single event and archive templates.

Gutenberg block

The GigRoute Events block lets editors display events without writing code. Block options include title, title tag, layout styling, number of events, event mode, ticket link visibility, grouping, pagination, filters, and date format.

This is useful for building conversion-focused sections such as “Tour Dates”, “Upcoming Shows”, “Live Events”, “Get Tickets”, or “Next Performances”.

Event posters

GigRoute Events includes poster functionality for promoting events visually. You can use individual event posters or one global poster across the site.

Poster settings include:

• Enable or disable posters globally.
• Use individual event posters or one global poster.
• Set poster display delay.
• Hide the poster for a selected number of days after a visitor closes it.
• Wrap poster media in a link when a valid destination is available.
• Use the global poster link or the individual event Ticket URL as the destination.

This can help promote ticket campaigns, new tour announcements, stand-up specials, festival appearances, or other show-business events.

External services

GigRoute Events can use the ipapi.co geolocation service when event-based posters are enabled on the frontend.

The service is used to request approximate visitor location data from:

The plugin uses this response to help choose a relevant upcoming event poster based on the visitor’s country, region, city, and approximate coordinates. The result may be cached in the visitor’s browser localStorage for up to 3 hours.

Data sent: the visitor’s browser makes a request to ipapi.co, which means the visitor’s IP address is processed by that external service.

Service terms: https://ipapi.co/terms/

Privacy policy: https://ipapi.co/privacy/