Album Theme Documentation

Adding Albums

To add music to your site, you create Albums. You can select a featured album in the WordPress Customizer that will allow be available in the player on every page of your site. The featured album will also appear on the homepage, if enabled through the customizer.

1. Within your WordPress admin, expand the “Albums” tab, then select “Add New“.
2. Create a title for your album post and add your album content within the post editor.
3. Add a short excerpt within the “Excerpt” box.
4. Under the “Album Information” box, you can add the Artist, Album, Release Date, Genre and Purchase links. This information will appear on the single album pages.
5. Add a Featured Image for your Album.

Adding songs to an Album is as easy as attaching them to that post. Any song that is attached to an Album post, will automatically be pulled in and able to play. There are a couple different ways to attach a song to an Album.

Adding Music through post

1. Inside the same Album edit page, select Add Media.
2. Here, you can upload new songs, or select songs that were previously uploaded.
3. Once selected, you can close the media pop-up and save the post. This will cause those media files to be attached to the Album.

Adding Music through Media Uploader

1. Within your WordPress admin, select the “Media” tab.
2. Here, you can upload new songs, or select songs that were previously uploaded.
3. In the main Media Library list, pick the song you’d like to associate with an Album, and select Attach under the Uploaded to column.
4. When the list of posts/pages pops up, find the Album you want and select it.

To reorder a list of songs on an Album page, you can change the order of the attachments under the Attributes section of the single media pages.

Adding an Album archive page

1. Within your WordPress admin, select the “Page” tab.
2. You can add a title and content to the page.
3. To set the page as an Album archive template, select the Template dropdown on the right sidebar and choose Albums