Musopress Discography

February 12, 2012

Musopress Discography Plugin

Creates a Discography Custom Post Type and allows you to import your albums from Bandcamp.

Musopress Discography creates a Discography Custom Post Type to display and organize your albums on your site.

If you use Bandcamp, it lets you import your music through the click of a button. This way you can use Bandcamp’s awesom features and integrate them effortlessly with your site. Any changes you make can be easily updated by simply re-importing the album(s) in question.

An optional Artist taxonomy is included, useful for labels and artists with many bands/projects.

There’s also a widget to display your latest releases.

Installation

You can install it through the admin interface or manually:

  1. Upload musopress-discography folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Plugin Setup
1. Create a page and add the [discography] shortcode.
2. If you want to use the Artist taxonomy, create a copy of your current theme’s ‘archive.php’ file and rename it ‘taxonomy-artist.php’. Replace the title with * and the Loop with *.

Screenshots

  1. Discography Settings page

    Discography Settings page

  2. Bandcamp Import page

    Bandcamp Import page

  3. Discography index page

    Discography index page

  4. Single Album view

    Single Album view

FAQ

I’m getting an error when trying to import from Bandcamp

This is usually because of a timeout issue. Try again later, or if you’re importing a lot of albums, try importing them in smaller batches.

I’m getting 404 errors on the album pages

Go to Setting->Permalinks and save.

I’m still getting 404 errors

This is most likely a conflict with a plugin or theme. Try switching to a different theme and re-saving the permalinks. If that doesn’t fix it, try going through each plugin, deactivating it, re-saving the permalinks, and seeing if that fixes it.

Changelog

0.5.1

  • Now flushes rewrite rules on activation and deactivation to minimize permalink problem.
  • Disabled has_archive for the album post type to prevent conflicts with the discography slug.

0.5

  • Initial release.

Details

  • Version: 0.5.1
  • Active installations: 100
  • WordPress Version: 3.1
  • Tested up to: 3.3.2

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