Recommend a plugin for music catalog?

  • Resolved arothmanmusic

    (@arothmanmusic)


    8 years ago

    I’m developing a site for a friend who composes music and I’m trying to find a decent solution to catalog her works in sortable / searchable fashion. All the catalog plugins I’m finding are aimed at “products” and require images for each item, which doesn’t make sense for musical compositions. This is more like a “library” than a product catalog, but all of the library plugins I was able to find are very “book-specific” and not flexible enough. We just need a way to categorize and meta-tag her works so that people can search them and view the details. Anyone able to recommend a decent option?

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  • Thread Starter arothmanmusic

    (@arothmanmusic)

    In case anyone else is interested, I was able to resolve my issue with a combination of the ‘Advanced Custom Post Types’ plugin and the Barn2 Media ‘Posts Table Pro’ plugin. Did the trick nicely.

    hi @arothmanmusic,
    i am looking for the same features and am wondering why you need “advanced custom post types” in addition to the “posts table pro” plugin. shouldn’t the posts table pro plugin have all of the same functions?
    i would be very gratefull for a response and even more if you could send me a link to your site so i can get a picture of what it could look like in the end
    all the best!
    max

    Thread Starter arothmanmusic

    (@arothmanmusic)

    Hey there. They handle two different things, so I need both.

    Here’s the site: https://www.monicahoughton.com/

    If you look under ‘Find Works By Genre’ in the menu you’ll see Posts Table Pro in action. Basically all that the PTP plugin does is allow me to list the works in columns that are searchable and sortable.

    The works themselves are a Custom Post Type. I created a new type called “Work” and each work has the instruments, year, genre, etc. as taxonomies and fields.

    The ACPT plugin is for making my own ‘Works’ entry format, and the PTP plugin handles the displaying of that data in a handy table format.

    Barn2, the company that makes PTP, was super helpful and even added some new functionality to the plugin to accomodate exactly what I needed. Well worth the $40.

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