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6 Great WordPress Templates For Composers And Musicians

 

If you’re a composer or musician, having a webpage – with a blog – is essential to making you visible online. When I was setting up this site, I first considered building it from scratch, but seeing how many useful templates that were out there, I decided to go down that road instead.
 
The great thing about WordPress is that, not only is it a fantastic solution for blogging – you can essentially run your entire web site from within it too. This includes your music demo reel pages, bio pages, news, your resources section and pretty much anything else you throw at it. And they all run within the WordPress framework, making it easy to tweak and manage all your pages.
 
However, a LOT of the templates I found were near-useless for composers, so it took me a lot of searching to find the best ones that’d work for showcasing your music, help build your online presence and look good doing it. Here are some of my favorites:
 


 

EEPROM
I really like the look of this theme. It’s stylish, features a good player, great options for the visuals and has loads of subpages you can customize to your liking. I do miss some more colour options, but if you know a bit of coding and image editing, you can adjust this yourself.

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    MUSIC PRO
    A slick-looking music theme with an integrated MP3-player. If you’re a fan of a darker look, this could be great to build on for a composer or musician. It also has a simple store built-in if you want to sell your music on-site.
     

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    SOUNDBOARD
    SoundBoard is mainly geared towards bands, but it can work well for composers with a bit of tweaking. You can adjust the colours and typeface to your preferred look, and it features the great JW player built-in for playback. You can also use SoundCloud shortcodes, if you prefer that.

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    MUSAIC
    A bit older than some of the other themes here, but still has a nice look – and good to see some lighter colours for a change. Uses the WP-audio player for playback, has good navigation and has a front page that really puts the spotlight on the music.
     

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    MEDIASCENE
    This theme really focuses on albums. Takes a bit more tweaking to customize to individual musicians when it comes to playback, but has lots of options for adjusting the visuals such as fonts, backgrounds and sliders. I personally prefer some of the other themes here, but your mileage may vary.

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    PENDULUM
    Another theme from the same team who did the EEPROM theme. It has a band slant, but it’s fairly easy to modify for individual composers and musicians. The portfolio template pages are really nice and have an audio player built-in, making it easy to showcase your music.

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    Found any other great WordPress templates for musicians and composers? Do share in the comments below!


    Posted by Asbjoern on October 16, 2012 - Contact



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