WordPress Music Theme
New bands and artists need a lot of work to become profitable & recognised. This can be made a lot easier, thanks to the Internet. Artists must build a reputation online, which will make obtaining fans as well as an audiance, and also the distribution of their songs much easier and quicker.
Think of Justin Bieber, who became famous because of his YouTube videos…
The single most important thing a person as a band member, or any musical artist can do is to have a well-built, attractive internet site, which is easy to create thanks to existing music themes for WordPress, like MyBandTheme.
Read MoreMyBandTheme update: v2.4
Thanks to the feedback and support of our community, we have fixed a few bugs and added some feature requests to the newest version of MyBandTheme.
This is a recommended update that includes security fixes to timthumb.php.
Here is a list of changes that are released with v2.4:
New features:
- Added CDBaby, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, SonicBids and Spotify to the list of Social Networks
- Added option to reset number of downloads on purchased files to 0 for a given sale
- Added event entry fee and event age restriction fields to Events
Bug fixes:
- Classic 4 theme meta box right corner missing
- Fixed some spelling mistakes on admin area
- Updated timthumb.php to latest version
- Fixed issue so song title shows up correctly on PayPal if it contains apostrophes
- Cropped event venue if too long to 18 characters
- Fixed text wrap around meta box and social buttons
Flash Doorway Pages for Band Websites?
We’ve received a few letters from clients, who asked whether we could program a Flash intro page for them, to appear as the hompage of their MyBandTheme powered band site.
Flash intro pages, also known as doorway pages, serve the purpose of having a pretty animation appear to the user, before they are finally taken to the content filled part of the website. These doorway pages were popular in the early 2000′s, when lots of sites were built on purely Flash.
Things change though, technology advances, and trends die off.
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