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-[GigPress](http://gigpress.com) is a live performance listing and management plugin that's been serving musicians and performers since 2007, when I "learned" PHP in order to write it. This shows in the procedural mess that is the code.
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-Lack of available time and my decreasing use of WordPress have led me to neglect the poor thing in recent years, although I do try to keep up with bug fixes. Perhaps some brave souls here in GitHub-land who are still avid users will endeavour to improve it!
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-The plugin is officially hosted on [WordPress' plugin repository](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gigpress/) (which is a Subversion repo) - hence the plugin directory being named **trunk**. If you are downloading from here on GitHub, simply rename **trunk** to **gigpress**.
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+[GigPress](http://gigpress.com) is a live performance listing and management plugin that's been serving musicians and performers since 2007.