Post types and tools for bands. Allow publishing of records 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 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)

Features

Linked post types for bands, records and songs
Links to WooCommerce products
Customizable layouts for bands, records and songs
Widgets, shortcodes and WPBakery blocks to display related items. Adaptive
depending of the post type (band, record, song) or specific.
Bands, Records and Songs available for navigation menus
Bands available as home page by default. Records and Songs can be enabled too.

Next moves

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

Future plans

Audio playlists for records and songs, uploaded locally
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

Unzip band-tools.zip into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Head to « Band Tools » admin menu and check settings
Create at least one Band, then records and songs at will
Enjoy

Who are you?

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

This is not an actual screenshot, I’ll add one when there is something cool
to show

0.9.3

fix #50 video shown as url instead of embed (content was not processed)

0.9.2

allow edit records relations in products

0.9.1

added customizer panel (fix #47)

0.9

new wpbakery blocs
fix #8 flex causing mess in edit pages
changed icons colors

0.8.5

added record release type
added song authors
fix authors list not displayed

0.8.4

fix Fatal error introduced in a04e95512275b4007a43d3d159d6bed46a45faf0

0.8.3

updated translations

0.8.2

added options to show official links or not

0.8.1

added band official website and official store (implements #29)

0.8

change: ‘album’ post type is changed to ‘record’
Existing menus or customizations might require a manual update
added update process

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 0.9.3 – by Magiiic

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