A basic post types and tools for bands. Allow publishing of albums with songs
list. Easy enough for a single band. Complete enough for several ones.
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 essential features for me.
I want something:
- very simple. Let’s talk about bands, albums and songs and link them together
- opened to my other needs: sell my albums
- theme-agnostic
- e-commerce agnostic (although I focus first on WooCommerce integration)
Features
- Linked post types for bands, albums, themes and videos
- Links to WooCommerce products
- Widget to show related items. On a song page, it display the band, the albums
it appears on, related videos. On the band page it displays the albums and the
songs. Etc. - The album pages also display link to shop product page
- Post types available for navigation menus
Next moves
- Better widgets: cleaner and more complete display (thumbnails for albums and bands, direct buy or link, player…)
- Video player
- Guttenberg Blocks
- Shortcodes for integration anywhere
- Specific post-types templates
- Extended WooCommerce integration (add to cart buttons)
Future plans
- Audio playlists for albums and songs, uploaded locally
- Video playlists for songs from YouTube, Vimeo etc.
- Crowdfunding based on WC sales (might be in a separate plugin)