Hop Festival attracts many thousands of visitors among which are influencers and bookers for acts. This profile is a way of being in front of them (and many more). If you have a profile, Hop Festival stage links come here.

For those performers viewing this entry a lot of this profile text is about tips and examples for when making your own – yours will, we’re sure, be so much better 😀

If you want any help with anything just give us a shout …

This Intro text is split into two parts – the first 40 words are pulled across into the catalog display. When making ours we used the word count function in Microsoft Word (displays bottom left of your document) – this made it easy to play around with the text without having to stop and count the words each time.

Your Logo is the thing displayed in the catalog – the header image sits across the top of the profile someone sees when clicking the “View Profile” button. They are two separate things. You can add a link to the header image (there is a box for you to put this in). If you’re stuck for ideas, we normally grab a screen snip of the Facebook page if you have one or your website. The Facebook “logo” inset on the left of a Facebook page header is also easy to snip out and turn into a logo for this site because its surrounded by a white border circle making it easy to edit – we did exactly these things for this profile entry.

Your main video is entered as a link to the video (and not a link to the video channel). You can add additional media (including videos) within this introduction using the Add Media, insert from URL buttons but please remember that there is a specific gallery section for adding pictures which has scrolling and zoom, plus the more videos you add here the slower your profile will load …

The same can be said for Soundcloud – don’t link to the channel, please use the WordPress code from the EMBED tab of a track or playlist sharing option

If you’re trying to use the EMBED code from TikTok for a video its a bit more complicated – you need to paste it into the Introduction Text box not the video box because TikTok doesn’t use the standard way everyone else does for dropping content into other sites …

PLEASE NOTE:

The Soundcloud box can be used for Spotify instead if you don’t use Soundcloud, or in fact any other site that gives you an <iframe> … </iframe> type EMBED code to your uploaded material. The important thing to remember is that you are linking to a specific piece of media (a track, playlist etc.) and not the channel/stream that holds these things. If you do want to share your channel, simply add it as a new row in your Social Media section. This is exactly what artist Ella Morgan did for her Profile. Ella added the SoundCloud link https://soundcloud.com/ella-maia-morgan as a Social Media row and put the EMBED code for her Spotify media into the box labelled Soundcloud

If you’re adding a “featured product”, you have to fill in all four parts for this to display – you need the product name (e.g. My Greatest Hits), the direct link to the product (usually a website URL such as https://thealex.org.uk/event/a-taste-of-hop-festival-party-night), an image (e.g. CD cover artwork) and a brief description (e.g. The best of me collated over several decades of musical adventures and partying)

Looking forward to seeing what you folk can do …