mg
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Brad,
What kinds of plugins do you use, and how do you set up your song pages? Do you have any awesome tips?
Thanks!
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Brad
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Plugins I’m using:
- Akismet (spam)
- bbPress (forums)
- Brad Sucks Track Lister (for my song/album listings)
- Get Recent Comments (comments for the front page)
- Peter’s Login Redirect (to jam people into /bff/ when they log in)
- WPtouch (mobile version)
By song pages do you mean like the songs linked from here:
http://www.bradsucks.net/albums/out_of_it/
Or do you mean like these?
http://www.bradsucks.net/music/making-me-nervous/
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mg
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I meant the latter, but I’m curious about both. I presume the former uses “Brad Sucks Track Lister”?
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Brad
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They’re both kind of a similar thing I made. I have a big ‘musicdata’ file with a bunch of arrays in it containing information about all my songs. Then there’s a database where I store all the related info.
The Brad Sucks track lister just outputs info from the ‘musicdata’ file. The /you/ page stuff looks up the song in the musicdata file and then pulls any relevant data out of the database and outputs it.
It’s kind of a hacky piece of work or I’d release the source.
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mg
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I totally understand. Thanks for the infos. I was hoping there was a standard plugin for it – I’m kind of surprised there isn’t.
Retrospectively, after investing the work into it, do you feel like WordPress is worth the effort to fit the musician paradigm?
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Brad
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When I was looking around for a solution for the music database I wanted to use a third party tagging service like Delicious but I guess I’m glad I didn’t now that it’s been sold. Also I’m a control freak.
As for WordPress, that’s tough to say. I think it’s still good but there are more options out there like Drupal and Joomla — both of which seem to have more ‘content’ where WordPress has been primarily a blogging platform.
WordPress has actually changed so much as well since I was developing this site — I know they’ve added a lot of CMS stuff like post types but I haven’t had time to play around with the new features. There may be easier ways now to maintain a song database.
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