Wayfarer is a premium music theme for entertainment professionals by AudioTheme. This WordPress theme has been released with full package that should meet all needs for music professionals. If you are a band, orchestra, or any one from music profession then you must check-out this theme demo. The theme offers a site-wide player on the top right corner with play-list control.
Apart from that, you are getting AudioTheme plugins bundle that includes core features like : Gigs, Records, Videos. So you must be able to manage gigs listings, discography and video library efficiently. There is no requirement to install extra plugins to list single tracks, music albums or event details. The theme will take care of everything with built-in features.
Notable Points Of AudioTheme Wayfarer ?
As I just said that like all templates released by AudioTheme, this theme also gets AudioTheme plugins support. So you never have to look back to 3rd party plugins for core music related content management features. Apart from that, it recommends you to install extra plugins to get same website as shown in demo. You need to use “Cue” plugin to add Site-wide Player on your site. So visitors can listen to music anywhere on any page.
If you love to share photographs then “Instagram Feed” plugin can help you add Instagram photos using widget. Just share your photos about new albums, upcoming concert or personal photos to engage with your fan base. “Jetpack” plugin support is also available to add Portfolios, Infinite Scroll, Carousel, Testimonials and many other stuff. Other suggestible plugins that works with Wayfarer theme are Meta Slider, WooCommerce, MailChimp and more.
The theme has documentation that guides you through homepage to blog page. So you can easily learn how to setup a music website with home slider, featured posts, blog page, and all music related pages. You will see separate page templates for Upcoming events, Discography, Video library and more. So visitors can easily check out new albums, videos, future/past events and more.
Let’s check out the process of homepage setup, widget areas details and other important stuff about this music template.
Wayfarer AudioTheme : Top Features
Unique Appearance : Using WordPress customizer, you can change logo, background image, color, hero section image and much more. The options panel shows preview for changes so that you can see how your site looks exactly when changes takes place. You can setup a logo that shows your brand, and choose right color to set visitors mood. Accent Colors are customizable so visitors can easily differentiate between different content elements.
Musicians can choose typography style using Google fonts or Typekit Fonts. You are free to select any font style, font color and size that looks best for headings and body area. Just a few clicks are enough to change everything from customizer. No coding skill or extra plugins required for customization.
Site-wide Player : I just told you that Wayfarer WordPress theme is made for musicians. And that’s why it brings a site-wide player integrated by “cue” plugin. So you should be able to see a a player on the top right of every page on your site, into site identity section. It shows current track title, along with Skill, Play toggle playlist buttons. The theme will show you process to setup site-wide player.
Responsive : Just preview live demo on your handy device or just resize the browse window to see a real preview of it’s responsiveness. A music, blog or any type of website should support different screen types. Then only it is possible to serve all website visitors coming through tablet, mobile and other instruments. This music template has been coded to respond to all size instantly without any delay.
So visitors who comes to your site can easily browse blog posts, play videos, listen music, browse navigation and check event schedule regardless of their screen resolutions. Thanks to AudioTheme for providing SEO responsive design with search engine optimized layout.
Homepage Elements : Music Theme
Wayfarer gives you choice to arrange header elements as you like. You can completely rearrange header layout by placing Navigation, Site Identity and Hero section in desired place. The “Featured Content” section is provided for homepage area so you can choose to show-off latest events, albums and other stuff. There is no restriction on what you pick for homepage. So just pick any post, or page for frontpage and choose custom layout with 2 or 3 column layout.
The theme has 30+ best google fonts so you can apply best font for Site title, Navigation, Headings, Content and Site-wide player. We know that typography and colors are important part of styling customization. And you don’t need to worry about styling part as customizer has lots of choices for styling.
AudioTheme gives you page support to add custom blog or news page to share news about latest album release. You can use blog to start only music blog or share all updates for upcoming events, new videos and announcements. Bands and orchestras can use blog page to share music tips, tutorials and other stuff to engage with fans.
Music Contents : As I said in the beginning that Wayfarer has “AudioTheme Plugin” which gives you music related features. So you should be able to add listing pages for Gigs, Discography, and Video library. The theme has total five menu locations : Primary navigation, Social Links Menu and 3 more. Other three includes : AudioTheme archive menus shown on the pages like Videos, Gigs and Records.
So visitors should be able to browse different videos, music tracks and gigs easily with menu options. The archive page helps visitors to filter and browse different contents without much trouble.
Conclusion Part : Final Words
Wayfarer also has widget sections on footer and sidebar. The sidebar can be good place to share custom widgets on all singular pages. So visitors should be able to browse latest gigs, latest records, latest videos on relevant pages. You don’t have to use same sidebar for blog, and all other pages. Just add custom sidebar for different pages to show relevant contents and links.
Whether you want to sell tickets for upcoming shows, sell albums, or spread personal identity. This music WordPress theme can bring best results for all those needs.
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