Promenade is a classy and elegant music WordPress theme that works for all musicians. AudioTheme has developed it with advanced controls and theme customization options. So you never have to install bunch of extra plugins for basic content management. The Audio Theme Framework gives you option to use Gigs, Videos and Discography. For that, you just have to install AudioTheme plugin and that’s it.
We saw the full live demo to check out each feature with more detail. Apart from referred to the video demo (introduced by developer) and product information page. Therefore, we are going to add every detail that we found unique and worth sharing with our readers.
What’s Best About Promenade WordPress Theme ?
From the very first glimpse, we found it to be simple and highly content focused. The default background uses elegant style to keep visitors focused on the featured images, titles and texts. Though, administrator are can choose any color skin and font style. You can also choose image, color or pattern for background area. We always recommend to use niche or brand oriented background.
This premium responsive WordPress theme works with JetPack plugin. So you can choose to display featured pages and posts on homepage area. JetPack also provides support to create masonry image gallery and other benefits. The responsive design works on small and other screen sizes without causing any trouble. So you can invite fans to browse music albums, videos and concert schedule from handy devices.
AudioTheme Wayfarer : Music Theme
Promenade is a multi-purpose WordPress theme which gives you help to start music blog, gigs promotion site etc. It provides live music player support so you can add audio player and track-list for visitors. As a result, visitors can enjoy best music or latest tracks which can lead them to buy your albums. It needs little time to setup your own music website with AudioTheme templates.
Promenade Features Details : Music Theme
Flexibility : Adding logo and featured image is truly awesome with built-in options. The customizer offers logo, tag-line and featured image support. So musicians can easily develop a brand focused homepage. The theme shows website title as logo, but you can use image logo if you have it already. Whatever featured image you will assign to homepage will be shown on the top of the page. So it’s good idea to set popular album cover or upcoming concert poster as featured image for frontpage.
If we talk about real flexibility then Promenade WP theme has a widgetized homepage. Hence, every musician can follow his own goal to setup an informative homepage. You can use only certain widgets for homepage area like recent posts, text and others as specified in demo. You don’t have to know HTML or CSS coding to add content or customize layout for homepage sections.
Using flexible homepage template, you can insert selected content, set featured image, assign music player and display feature content on the top of the page. This is great way to highlight latest blog posts, upcoming events, albums, videos and other stuff. A homepage should be able to provide quick look at all main contents and should help visitors to link all insert sections.
And AudioTheme has offered custom widget sections, navigation menu and other elements to help you make better navigation within frontpage. If you check our header and footer then it provides support for primary navigation menu to add links for blog, gigs, videos and other pages. Moreover, you can also highlight social profile links (with icons), contacts, and other stuff using footer and other widget areas.
Homepage Contents Details : AudioTheme
Audio Player : The front-page shows an audio music player just below the big featured image. Promenade offers built-in support for “Cue” plugin which is free and helps you to create playlist. Hence, you can show a music player with playlist toggle along with other controls. So visitors can play any tracks from custom playlist which has been assigned by website owner.
Featured Content : I just mentioned in the beginning that this feature is powered by Jetpack plugin. It helps you to display a couple of featured pages and posts on homepage area. You have to assign certain tag to posts or pages that you want to highlight on homepage. And once you do that, then it will show those important contents directly on the top of the homepage.
Homepage Widgets : One of the best feature of Promenade is it’s ability to display Upcoming gigs, Records, Videos and other selected stuff on home page. What makes it even more unique is that you can show all these stuff by just adding widgets. The widget management page will show you “Home Widget” section where you can drag and drop content widgets in desired order.
The Recent posts and other widgets will help you to define certain number of posts from video, gigs and blog section. Once specify content preference and number of posts then it automatically assigns number of columns to each sections. Hence all homepage space is utilized in proper way to present contents in best possible way.
Last Words for Conclusion :
We talked about homepage and other customization features. The blog page is also available so you can set it as news or content marketing section. Rest of the pages like Video, Gigs, Records are also supported by useful features. You are getting layouts and filter navigation bar support for these Archive pages. The customizer will help you to specify number of columns for archive sections.
If you enable filter navigation panel then user can easily sort-out music albums, events and tracks based on selected categories. The theme also helps you to enable “Related Posts” feature for single posts. If you enable this feature then Promenade theme will automatically show related post entries from similar post type.
This music WordPress theme has several modern features which meets all modern music websites requirements. The customizer let’s you control website, colors, fonts, design, background, pages, posts, widgets, menus and everything from one place. So novice administrators can also enjoy working with customization even if they don’t know coding.
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