Hello! New user of MusicPlay, less than a week, love the theme so far. Also brand new to WordPress after 5 years of building and maintaining Joomla sites, and I’m having trouble wrapping my head around some items.
My questions are probably pretty basic and simple, but haven’t found them answered by searching the forum here or in the one documentation file for this theme (and how to use the Artist and Album stuff was some of the main info I hoped would be in the documentation, as they are specific concepts to this type of theme as far as I can tell – that would have been really useful, something to consider). Anyway:
1) Are Artists and Albums treated as blog posts?
That’s what they seem like with using categories, trying to understand the setup here.
2) What is the best practice for setting up Categories for both Artists and Albums?
I have 4 categories of music that actually apply to both and have created these same 4 categories under both Artist Categories and Album Categories.
3) How do I add these 4 Categories to the primary menu under Artists and Albums (like the Audio Archive and Album Genre pages shown in the demo site)?http://www.aivahthemes.com/musicplay/artist_cat/rock-band/http://www.aivahthemes.com/musicplay/genres/deep-house/
Doesn’t seem as obvious as adding Pages or general Categories from the Appearance/Menu page (and Artist and Album categories don’t show up there to choose from for the Menu). Or maybe those are not generated from Categories and I’m confusing the setup here – looking to make subpages of Albums and Artists like in the demo site.
Probably something simple that I’m missing here (like my understanding of how best to use shortcodes, which is a totally new concept to me). Sorry for the long write-up and thanks for any help!
Anyone?
I’m kind of at a stand-still until I figure out the best way forward. Have the feeling I’m approaching Artists and Albums hierarchy wrong. Thanks for any help!
Hi Mawk – I appreciate you trying several times to reach me on Skype. Seems our schedules won’t line up well for talking – I’m sleeping during the hours you are online and I’m always running late to work in morning, so can’t talk then. I’ll try to get up extra early if I ever need to seriously get support for some item.
In the meantime, think I have almost everything figured out now that I had questions on. Lot of trial and error learning both WordPress and how your theme handles items, but pretty settled now. I launched the website today and it’s working well.
Only issue I still have is getting the header logo to fully show on mobile – looks great normally, but when viewed at mobile size the logo is half cut off by the player being at top of screen. I’m not using a topbar and that may be losing some space. Will probably have to find that part in the css and add some padding down from the top. Let me know if you know of an easy fix for that. Thanks for your help!
I have exactly the same question about how to show Artist Category on menu.
I can’t use Skype, so I’d appreciate if somebody write the answer in this forum.
thanks!
>> actually, I just figured it out by myself. Thanks!!
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Hi there,
I think I have the same problem to figure out how to make a sub menu with “album label” category and “album genre” just like the demo website (green buttons next to search bar below the main WP menu).
It would be great and most appreciated if someone could drop a few lines about this matter or even better make a quick video…
Hi,
It seems I have the same problem.. I need those 2 green buttons next to the search bar as shown on the demo.
Would you mind sharing the solution you got ? Would be cool!
