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

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

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

Band Tools 0.13.1 – by Magiiic

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