We have just released a new update of the Music Maker WordPress Theme which has over 100 new updates and improvements.
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Check out the demo sites to see what is possible.
Learn more about the Music Maker WordPress Theme.
Video Overview
New Features
New Homepage Template
The new template called Frontpage Sections that lets you create a long homepage. Live Demo
- There are over 17 Frontpage Sections.
- You can change the text color, background color, or add a BG image for each section.
- Animation Features – You can choose from 20 animation styles on how the information is loaded into each section.
- The animations are triggered when a user scrolls up or down the page.
Beat Store Updates
Track Beat Plays
New Animated Bars
You can now turn on an option to have animated bars appear when a track in the beat store playlist is playing.
Change the Audio Player Colors
This option also changes the single audio player color.
You can now also pick the color of the checkout button when an item is in the shopping cart.
New Overlay Windows
Sale Overlay Window
This is what appears when the Sale button is clicked. This can be used to help promote your current sales and promotions. Live Demo
Instructions Overlay Window
This is what appears when the Instructions button is clicked. This allows you to add instructions on how to buy beats.
Clear Button
A Clear sort results button will appear in the sorting drop-down if beats have been live sorted.
Beat Descriptions Appear in Overlay Window
New Soundwave Audio Player
You can now select a new Soundwave audio player on the single beat page. View Live Demo
Related Beats
You can now display related beat images. View Live Demo
- Beats aren’t related, they load randomly.
Set Default Beat Thumbnail
You can now change the default beat store thumbnail image.
Product Store Updates
Audio Preview for Products
A new input has been added when editing products to upload an MP3 audio file. Live Preview
Related Products
The single product pages now have the option to display related products. This feature randomly loads products from your product store. View Live Preview
New Page Title Option
You can now select a full-width page title. You can change the text, background color, and upload a custom background image. Live Demo
Page Animations
You can now select from 20 different animation styles on how information is loaded into a page.
Sticky Navigation Menu
You can now select to have a sticky navigation menu.
- When turned on, the sticky navigation menu appears when the page is scrolled down past 500 pixels.
Change Button Style
You can choose to make your website button square, round, or pill shape.
Fonts
Adjust Website Name Font Size & Padding
Google Fonts Select Menus
The Google Font inputs have been updated to select drop downs to help people avoid entering incorrect names or leaving the input empty. Over 800 font names included.
New Welcome Panel
A new welcome panel appears on the dashboard with links to access sections in WordPress faster. If you have suggestions for the links, leave a comment.
New Demo Import Process
The new demo import process imports sample content, widgets, and customizer settings in under 2 minutes.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed JS widget error. ( .color-field )
- Fixed bug on the all banners page with the banner image overlapping the other columns.
- Fixed variable issues with the edit admin sidebars page.
- Fixed beat store admin input errors ( Updated with isset () )
- Fixed CSS issue with EDD reports page with the column being the incorrect size.
- Fixed PHP errors and added default settings to the following widgets: Text Banner, Social Profiles, Image Banner, About
- Fixed JQuery errors.
- Fixed error on admin columns. ( Undefined Index )
- Fixed errors with testimonial widget and added sample text.
- Fixed beat store playlist JQuery error with e is not defined.
Read More About the Music Maker WordPress Theme
Previous Updates
New Beat Store Template
The new beat store template is in a scrolling window and offers 2 color theme options. – View Live Demo
Light Theme
Dark Theme
New Features:
- Automatically start beat store player
- Display or hide image thumbnails
- Next and previous track buttons to skip beats
- Auto play next song
- Faster loading
- New buy and free download icons
- Display lowest to highest beat price
Beat Highlight Icon
Select a highlight icon when adding beats. You can select “On Sale”, “New”, or “Popular”.
New Beat Sorting Bar
The new beat store template has a sorting bar dropdown menu option to easily sort beats by genres, categories, or tags.
New Widgets
Social Profiles Widget
You can now select the option to link to your social profiles with these bigger social icons. View Live Demo
About Widget
This new widget allows you to easily add a photo, short description, and link the image to your about page to allow visitors to learn more about you.
Beat Sorting Dropdown Widget
Here is another beat sorting dropdown widget option. This widget can include 3 dropdown menus to sort beats by genre, category, or tag.
Sell Digital Products ( Drums, Samples, Etc )
The product store has 3 product options available:
- Sell Digital Products – Sell drums, samples, etc. Checkout 14 Digital Product Ideas
- Physical Products – Sell clothing, posters, and other merchandise.
- Link to External Sites – These can be affiliate links or links to other online stores.
WordPress Back-end Improvements.
Remove WordPress Admin Menu Links – A new feature has been added under Settings called “Admin Sidebar Links” that will allow you to hide the WordPress admin sidebar links.
Other improvements
- Improved text readability.
- Simple website animations – A few simple hover animations have been added to the theme to make it feel a little more interactive.
- New navigation font.
- More CSS control. View CSS Tips & Tricks.
- And much more.
Learn More About the Music Maker Theme
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The update is exactly what I need. Thanks Mark for all that you do!
AWESOME SOFTWARE FOR MUSIC LOVERS
Hello Mark,
thanks for the helpful information, i want to buy the music maker theme, but im totally a newbie in website building. i want to know the first step to take. Do i first buy the template or i need to register on wordpress.org or setup with bluehost first?
your reply is highly appreciated. Thank You.