A compelling online presence is paramount these days, regardless of whether you are a doctor, an international law firm, or an information specialist. The music industry is no exception to this rule. In fact, with CD sales and digital downloads continuing to decline for the enjoyment of streaming, a compelling online presence is a must for musicians.
Fortunately, musicians have WordPress on their side. WordPress has made it possible, even for those who know nothing about web development, to create a website to showcase their talents.
The standard WordPress toolkit is more than enough for any musician for a start. But for create a website that attracts and entices people to buy your music, attend your concerts, and leave rave reviews, you will need a few plugins, and that is exactly what we will present to you in this article.
But before, if you have never installed WordPress discover How to Install a WordPress Blog in 7 Steps et How to search, install and activate a WordPress theme on your blog
Then back to why we are here.
1. Disk Audio
Disk Audio is another WordPress plugin that will help you to display an audio player directly on your website by just pressing a button. The layout of the audio player is completely responsive, so mobile users will be able to enjoy its features without any main.
In addition, it offers many customization options including color schemes, appearances, background images and opacity. It has several options to control it by keyboard and it also allows you to view your playlist with an adjustable scroll bar.
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You'll also be able to embed download links on the music player to show users where they can go to buy the track being played on your website.
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2. EventOn
The EventOn WordPress plugin is the best-selling WordPress calendar plugin on CodeCanyon, with over 7000 sales. It has a ton of useful features like featured images for events, shortcodes, unlimited creation of event calendars, customizable metadata fields, and event features.
Its main extensions are among others: the possibility of selling tickets, import / export of events in CSV format, free integration with Google Maps, sorting and filtering on the event list, fully responsive layout, Multilingual support, and easy customization of the calendar.
Some features are already available for free in others WordPress plugins, but the price-performance ratio is an effective compromise.
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3. Calendarista
Calendarista is a WordPress plugin designed to provide an experience of online booking –Booking- faster and more efficient to your customers. Its objective is to make services very quick and easy to add for companies that offer the booking of sessions or appointments on the internet.
So if you are looking for a complete reservation system for a hotel, car rental company, apartment rental, travel agency, beauty salon, restaurant, etc.…, this WordPress plugin will be perfect for you.
As features, it offers among others: 10 ready-to-use booking methods, support for 3 payment gateways, support for WooCommerce, the integration of a customizable form builder, the support of Google Maps, an excellent calendar to post your appointments, and more
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4. ZoomSounds
ZoomSounds is a WordPress plugin that will help you display an audio player on your website. It is also one of WordPress plugins de audio player best bought with over 1690 sales. The best part about the plugin is the fact that it comes with all the features that allow you to make your website user-friendly.
The interface and design of the audio player are attractive. Just like the WordPress plugins popular in this niche, it has a powerful control panel that gives you the opportunity to take control of it. It also supports SoundCloud.
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Your visitors will have the opportunity to like and comment on songs or playlists, which makes this plugin more social. Other interesting features include: support for the playlist, WooCommerce support and eight audio player models.
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5. Event Booking Pro
This is another 100% responsive WordPress plugin, easy to customize and dedicated to the management of reservations on any website, which offers its services in the fields of events.
Its main features include: customizing text, color, borders and more, PayPa supportl, the management of coupon codes and coupons, the support of Google Maps, the support of the management of e-mails, the support of the shortcodes, intuitive control panel, easy event creation, total control over appearance, etc ...
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6. The Grid
The Grid is one of the most powerful builders for create your image gallery or your portfolio (although you can use it to build your blog, team page, testimonials, and even your WooCommerce store). With this WordPress plugin, you won't be limited to a set number of styles - you will be able to create your own from scratch.
Use its skin generator to select custom fonts, change hover state, select media, add animations, set snippets, and resize elements. But that's not all, because The Grid also has:
a real-time preview that runs under Ajax, support for custom publishing formats, an integration with WPML, the support of lines and adjustable columns, as well as grids of full width and height.
In addition, many multimedia formats are supported, as well as many social sharing platforms.
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7. Video Gallery
To stream content from YouTube, Vimeo or LiveDash, Video Gallery is the WordPress plugin of choice. You'll be able to create a gallery that streams from multiple galleries and combine videos from multiple streams into one gallery.
Once you've linked the videos in the gallery, users will be able to select a reading list. The videos can easily be configured to resume where the user has stopped. The thumbnails video will appear on the channels of the various social sharing platforms.
And to create secure backups of your gallery, simply export the database. Google Analytics with which it is compatible will help you track the number of views of users, which is particularly useful for educational channels.
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8. Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress
Easy Social Share Buttons is a powerful WordPress plugin of buttons from partage of social networks, which integrates with more than 40 of the most popular social networks, including:
Facebook Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Digg, StumbleUpon, VKontakte, Tumblr, Reddit, Delicious, Buffer, Weibo, Xing, Pocket, Flattr Odnokkassniki.ru, ManageWP.org, Email, Blogger, Amazon, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL, Newsvine, HackerNews, Evernote, Mail.ru, MySpace, Viadeo, Line, Flipboard, Comments, Yummly, Kakao Story, Yammer, Hatena, Renren, Douban, Naver, QQ.
This WordPress plugin also includes other types of buttons in this case: the "Like" button, the "More" button, the "Share" button, the "comments" button, etc ...
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Other recommended resources
We also invite you to consult the resources below to go further in the grip and control of your website and blog.
- How to add share buttons to WordPress
- How to add animated GIFs to WordPress
- How to create audio and video playlists in WordPress without using a WordPress plugin
- 8 WordPress plugins to create diagrams on a blog
Conclusion
Here ! That's it for this list. This is not an exhaustive list, there are several premium WordPress plugins that can help you transform your website into a true modern professional website.
However, you can also consult our resources, if you need more elements to carry out your projects of creation of Internet sites, by consulting our guide on the WordPress blog creation or the one on Divi: the best WordPress theme of all time.
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