Theme Overview
Lyrics Organizer is a special kind of WP theme, which turns your WordPress installation into a powerful lyrics database. You can easily add and update song lyrics through the regular admin interface, organize them by categories and tags, search them and use more advanced features described in this documentation.
This theme was created with professional musicians/singers in mind, to help them organize a large number of song lyrics in one place. Of course, any music lover who wants to have such lyrics tool will find this theme very useful. Lyrics Organizer uses very simple interface with two columns widget sidebar, which is the main navigation tool for your lyrics database.
This theme has no RSS feed or social networks features, as it is not provided for publishing and sharing, but rather to be your personal lyrics library. Hence, you can install it on your computer (with local web server), and carry it on your notebook/netbook wherever you go, or install it on web server as a standard web site, and have access through Internet connection from any place.
Install and Theme Setup
If you want to install this WordPress theme on your computer, you will need a web server installed on it, as well as a support for MySQL and PHP. Although it may sound quite complicated, there are some nice, open source projects that support Apache web server and provide very easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL and PHP. If you plan to install Lyrics Organizer on Web Host as a standard wordpress theme, you will need to follow standard procedure for wordpress installation, and then upload theme files in appropriate folder on web server. For both ways you can find a brief installation tutorial on my blog pages here.
You will need a few more setup steps to make this theme fully functional. These are: setting home page and site title, installing plugins and setting sidebar widgets. Complete documentation and help on this subject are also on my blog pages here.
Theme Preview
My Lyrics Book comes in three color/style theme variations: Dark Blue, Light Blue and Mini Netbook. Mini Netbook theme variation is designed for low resolution 9-10" screen (1024*600px or 1024*768px) so you should try it on your netbook computer, IPad or some similar device with 9-10" screen.
Free License - Download
License: This free wordpress theme is published under a Creative Common 3.0 License. That means you are free to use it, share or distribute, and make customization changes to this theme. All I ask is that you keep the footer link to b-design-studio intact.
Pro License
In case you are not familiar with wordpress installation and administration and you are located in Belgrade - Serbia you can purchase Pro License for this theme that provides you full personal support. This includes:
- web server and wordpress instalation on your computer
- theme instalation and customization
- creating initial lyrics database
- two days training for database administration
- one year support for database backup and maintenance
Pro licence price is 50€. For any further information feel free to contact me.
Usage Instruction
For adding and editing song lyrics with this theme you will use completely standard wordpress administration interface. Just make sure that one post is only one song and you can start adding or updating your lyrics database. Post title is a song title, post text is song lyrics; also, pick a category (categories) for your song, add keywords, and that's it. Lyrics Organizer also gives you some advanced editing tools like inserting images, song chords, backing tracks, or direct linking from one song to another. Check the complete tutorial on lyrics editing here.
