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Band Tools 0.13.1 – by Magiiic

Tools for artists, bands, musicians, …

Meta

  • Version 0.13.1
  • WordPress Version 4.5
  • Tested up to 5.8
  • PHP Version 5.6
  • Tags music, bands, singers, albums, records, songs
  • Author Magiiic
  • Donate link https://paypal.me/magicoli

Due every year

Category:

Post types and tools for bands. Allow publishing of records with songs list. Easy enough for a single band. Complete enough for several ones.

Although you can get this plugin for free, buying it will fund development and help providing future features.

Goals

I am a singer, and a web designer. There are many plugins and themes for bands out there, but I found none suiting my needs. Either way too complicate, either lacking features that seem essential to me.

I wanted something:

  • very simple. Let’s talk about bands, records and songs and link them together
  • opened to my other needs: sell my records
  • theme-agnostic
  • e-commerce agnostic (although I focus first on WooCommerce integration, Easy Digital Downloads might follow)

Features

  • “band”, “record” and “song” post types, with relationships
  • Bands, Records and Songs available for navigation menus
  • Bands, Records and Songs can be used as home page (bands are allowed by default, others are activable in settings)
  • Widgets, shortcodes and WPBakery blocks to display
    • album list with songs, buy link, player
    • related items (songs in displayed album, albums of displayed band…)
  • Audio player for albums
    • Playlist for albums
    • Play button for each song in album
  • Customizable layouts for bands, records and songs
  • WooCommerce integration
    • Links to products or external shop page
    • Buy link, per album or per song

Artists using this plugin

Next moves

  • Better widgets: cleaner and more complete display (thumbnails for bands, direct buy or link, …)
  • Video player
  • External product links (to specific online store and common distribution platforms)
  • Guttenberg Blocks
  • Automatic submenus for bands, records and songs

Future plans

  • Video playlists for songs from YouTube, Vimeo etc.
  • Crowdfunding based on WC sales (might be in a separate plugin)
  • Links between different Band Tools enabled websites
  • Events
  • Network / Multisite integration
  1. Get latest stable release from “https://magiiic.com/updates/?action=download&slug

    band-tools”>magiiic.com
    or install from command-line wp plugin install 'https://magiiic.com/updates/?action

    download&slug

    band-tools'

  2. Head to “Band Tools” admin menu and check settings
  3. Create at least one Band, then records and then songs at will
  4. Enjoy

Where can I find support/help?

You can submit bugs, feature requests, questions and suggestions in the “Issues” section of GitHub repository.

Who are you?

I’m a singer, I’m a grinner, I’m a joker, I’m a midnight coder.

  1. My mic, not a screenshot but the origin of all these needs.

0.13.1

0.13

  • added settings to toggle record list elements
  • added thumbnail to record list
  • added support link to readme (fix issue #41)
  • fix song page: when band is not set, the song title is displayed instead
  • fix song list duplicated instead of showing record title + list

0.12

  • new details action link in lists
  • new option to show player in tracks list
  • use ajax to stay in page on add to cart
  • fix: don’t show buy link if woocommerce is not active
  • fix errors in previous merge
  • fix #89 add to cart cancelled if track product is same as record product (for singles)
  • fix #86 update tracks buy link when their record is added to cart with ajax
  • fix #65 remove songs already in cart when their album is added
  • fix #74 regression: next song in playlist not played
  • fix #64: disallow buy song if album already in cart

0.11

  • add play link in list when an audio sample is available
  • add buy link to record if a product is linked
  • add buy links in lists if a product is linked
  • added player in songs lists and play link for each song
  • show player for each record
  • fix get_cart() crash when saving song
  • regression: revert dev changes breaking functionalties

0.9.9

  • new wpbakery blocs
  • added customizer panel (fix #47)
  • added audio sample field
  • added shorcode “id” attribute to display info of a specific item
  • added “buy” link to songs and records lists
  • added ‘Buy’ link in songs lists (fix #59)
  • added song-product relationship
  • changed icons colors
  • changed “Cart” to “View cart” for already purchased items
  • allow edit records relations in products
  • tested up to wp 5.8
  • fixed #68 disable buy link if already in cart
  • fix wc notices not displayed on standard pages
  • fix #67 add to cart short code not rendered
  • fix missing song info metaboxes
  • fix #50 video shown as url instead of embed (content was not processed)
  • fix #8 flex causing mess in edit pages

0.8.5

  • added update process
  • added band official website and official store (implements #29)
  • added record release type
  • added song authors
  • added options to show official links or not
  • fix authors list not displayed
  • fix Fatal error introduced in a04e95512275b4007a43d3d159d6bed46a45faf0
  • change: ‘album’ post type is changed to ‘record’
    Existing menus or customizations might require a manual update

0.7.14

  • added product relationship (fix issue #9)
  • added settings to toggle info under content
  • added options to display info under title
  • fix issue #5 title suffix added to breadcrumbs
  • fix meta-box license notice
  • fix singular form not detected before post type creation
  • fix meta-box license notice
  • fix multiple option returned as true when all of them are disabled
  • fix flex blocks only in band tools edit or settings pages

0.7.13

  • fix permalinks and css refresh on activation, update and deactivation
  • fix show subtitle only under main page title
  • added styling to infobox prefixes and suffixes

0.7.12

  • fix numbered list type

0.7.10

  • added prefix and suffix for bndtls_get_meta and bndtls_get_relations
  • renamed build_relationships to bndtls_get_relations

0.7.9

  • added genre under title for bands, records, songs
  • added band under title for records and songs
  • added band info fields
  • show infoboxes as grid on frontend
  • show custom fields blocks as grid

0.7.8

  • fix oops, I disabled autoload when I removed afragen…
  • removed afragen libraries, including own deps (previously it was just disabled)

0.7.7

  • fix chatty error log when no bands, records or songs exist yet
  • removed afragen dependency installer, too resource hungry

0.7.6

  • updated shortcodes for mb framework
  • updated ‘all’ widget for mb framework (not all, only the one called ‘all’). Other ones are updated but not functional yet
  • added style hierarchy to nested infobox
  • added shorcodes memo to dashboard
  • added option to disable plugin templates

0.7.5

  • fix function remove_meta_box_menu redeclared

0.7.4

  • fix debug code left on output

0.7.3

  • added single/plural form to relationships
  • improved get title from relationship instead of post type
  • fix wrong result when asking a sub option and none set
  • fix front page display for custom types
  • fix plural in translations
  • don’t show title in nested infoboxes

0.7.2

  • added front page settings
  • added template for band when selected as home page
  • fix current page display in infoboxes
  • fix regression singular/plural bands, records, groups
  • fix regression: preferences not read for clean titles, single-archive redirect, widget area
  • fix Dashboard submenu name

0.7

  • new custom content template: show parent and child related items band/records, band/songs, records/songs
  • new plugin templates: single-[slug].php content-single-[slug].php content-archive-[slug].php ([slug] is bands, records or songs)
  • added mb-custom-post-type and mb-relationships libraries
  • added relations in list view
  • enhancement css refresh after update (use plugin version for css enqueue)
  • disable metabox menu if only bundled (when actual plugin is not active)
  • fix special characters display in custom post strings translations (removed esc_html filter)
  • fix PHP warning (remove_menu_page invoked with admin_init instead of admin_menu)
  • fix bad location for includes/woocommerce.php

0.6

  • intermediate version: partially migrated to meta-box, but acf is still needed for some stuff
  • new allow to select group as home page
  • added meta-box, meta-box-group and mb-settings-page libraries
  • added afragen/wp-dependency-installer library
  • migrated dependencies check to afragen library
  • spring cleaning

0.5.14

  • tested up to WP 5.7
  • new shortcode to display related objects
  • new catch-all widget with all relations
  • new function to build shortcode and widget content
  • changed Plugin Name to “Band Tools”, instead of “Bands Tools”, to match slug
  • added license key support
  • added widget styling
  • exclude development and source files from .zip release
  • lighter assets
  • fix dependencies check conflict with other plugins
  • fix unset array php warning
  • fix widget duplicate ids
  • fix widget nested id
  • fix wppus-hide-licence-warnings.js conflict with other plugins using it
  • fix installRow and licenseRow inversion
  • fix add_option fired too early and causing crash
  • constants for common values
  • added songs per record view

0.4.4

  • new automatic singular or plural post names for archives and menus
  • new settings custom post naming
  • added redirection for archives containing a single post
  • added “Custom sidebars” to recommended plugins
  • added page-attributes support
  • added widget area (currently depends on theme customizaton or external plugin)
  • fix missing install link for recommended plugins
  • added videos to singular/plural names

0.3 – 0.3.9

  • added band, record, song, video categories
  • added standard tags to all types without custom tags
  • added post-formats support
  • added video post type
  • added video widget
  • added recommended plugins to settings page
  • added clean titles option fo Categories, Archives, Taxonomies, Authors, Taxes
  • added translation template and French localisation
  • udpate load WooCommerce fields only if WC is active
  • fix settings pages translations: load textdomain before acf fields definition

0.2.4

  • added: dependency check
  • fix: flush permalinks on activate
  • updated: widget titles in singular or plural form
  • cleanup custom types, objects and functions names

0.2.0

Basicly functional

  • Band, Record and Song post types
  • Relations between Bands, Records and songs
  • Widgets with links to related objects

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