Settings

Where to find them

In the WordPress admin, go to Music → Settings, change what you need and click Save Settings. You need an Administrator account. The settings are in four groups: Addresses, Artist, Release and song pages, and Ads and analytics. On a computer, the list beside them jumps to each one.

Addresses

Each address is the word after your domain. The page shows the full address under each one.

• Releases address: your Music page and each release's page. Default music, so yoursite.com/music/ and yoursite.com/music/release-name/.
• Songs address: each song's page. Default song, so yoursite.com/song/song-title/.
• Link pages address: each release's link page. Default listen, so yoursite.com/listen/release-name/.

The three must all be different. If a published page already has one of these addresses (say you have a page called Music), a red note under the field names that page. Rename that page, or pick another address, or one of them won't open.

Changing an address moves every page under it, and links you've already shared with the old address may stop working. Settle on them before you print QR codes. To keep links you've already printed, like /songs/… from before you used Dirigible Music, set the address to match them.

Music page

Music page: the page that lists your releases. One called Music is made for you at the releases address when you publish your first release, with a Releases block on it. Pick another page with a Releases block to use that instead, or Automatic for a plain list of every release with nothing around it. The "Music" links on release and song pages go to this page.

Preferred player

Preferred player: the service release and song players use when a release or song has a link to it (Spotify by default, since most listeners use it). Without one, players try Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, then SoundCloud. A release's own Player choice, or a block's Plays on setting, still wins.

Artist name

Artist name shows on release, song and link pages, and is used to find your releases when you fill one in from a link. Leave it empty to use the site title.

Artist profiles

Paste the links to your artist pages on Spotify and Apple Music. In each app, open your artist page, then Share → Copy link (Spotify's look like open.spotify.com/artist/…, Apple Music's like music.apple.com/us/artist/your-band/123456789). A link to an album, a song or a playlist isn't accepted here.

• The Spotify link plays in the Spotify Player block: your top tracks and a Follow button.
• Import Discography starts with your Apple Music link filled in (or the Spotify one), so bringing in your releases is one click. When you import a band's releases and the Apple Music box is empty, that artist is saved here.
• They're the same links as Spotify and Apple Music in Appearance → Customize → Social Media. Change them in either place. So they also show as icons with your other social links in the header and footer, and search engines are told they're your profiles.

These need the Dirigible theme. Without it, the boxes aren't shown.

Page layouts

Release page layout: how each release page is laid out.

• Split: cover stays, the rest scrolls beside it (the default): the cover on the left, and everything else on the right (title, buttons, player, track list and lyrics, your story, video and credits). The cover stays in view while visitors scroll through the rest. More releases runs full width underneath. Phones and tablets show one column, with the cover on top.
• Cover on the left or Cover on the right: the cover beside the title and buttons.
• Stacked: cover on top: the cover on top, with everything centred under it. It reads well on phones.
• Backdrop: cover blurred behind: the cover spreads across the page, blurred and darkened, behind white text and buttons, like your link page.

It applies to every release page, older releases with the automatic layout too. Release blocks set to Site default follow it as well, on any page; a Release block can also pick a layout of its own. A Release block anywhere other than its own release page shows Split as Cover on the left, because a split needs the whole page.

Song page layout: on wider screens, song pages show the song's details on the left and its lyrics on the right (Details on the left, lyrics on the right, the default). Choose Lyrics on the left, details on the right to swap them, or One column: details, then lyrics, then the story to put them one under the other. Phones always show one column.

Page colours

The background and text colour of release and song pages, and of the list at your releases address when the Music page is Automatic.

• Page colours: None (the site's background) (the default) keeps your site's background. Or pick a colour from your palette: White, Gray, Dark, Primary, Secondary, Accent or Variant. The swatches show your colours, which you set under Appearance → Customize → Styles → Palette.
• White text: turns the text, headings, links and buttons white, the way the theme's White Text settings do elsewhere. Turn it on with a dark background.

For a dark site, pick Dark and turn on White text. The editor shows the same colours while you edit a release or song. Link pages keep their own design, and your Music page is a normal page, so give it a background with its own blocks.

Listen buttons

Listen buttons: how the Spotify, Apple Music and other listen buttons look on release and song pages.

• Outlined buttons (the default): each service's icon and name in an outlined button.
• Filled buttons: the same, filled with your button colour.
• Icons only: a row of service icons. Each says its service's name to screen readers and on hover. A service without an icon (a store on your own site, say) shows its name instead.

Release and Listen Links blocks left on Site default follow it too; either can pick its own. Link pages keep their own design.

Release pages

Show lyrics in release track lists: on by default. In a release's track list, each song with lyrics gets a "Lyrics" label and opens to show them. Turn it off for a plain track list. A song's own page always shows its lyrics.

Ads and analytics

Meta pixel ID: the 15 or 16 digit number from Meta Events Manager. You can paste the whole pixel code, and the number is taken from it. It's the same Facebook Pixel ID as in Appearance → Customize → Scripts & Embeds → Analytics & Tracking, so change it in either place. The box needs the Dirigible theme.

Send clicks to analytics: on by default. Clicks on listen, buy, pre-save and player buttons are sent as an event to Google Analytics (music_link_click) and the Meta pixel (MusicLinkClick), with the service and the release's title. That's how you see which ads send people to Spotify. It only does anything when the site already has Google Analytics or the Meta pixel set up.

Load the Meta pixel only on link pages: off by default. Use this when your Meta ads point to your link pages. The pixel then loads on link pages, where it records each visit and every listen and buy click (MusicLinkClick, with the setting above on), and nowhere else on the site, so your other pages load faster and send nothing to Meta. Google Analytics and your other tags still load on every page.

• It works on the Meta pixel ID above. Pixel code pasted into Custom Embeds still loads everywhere: put the pixel's number in the Meta pixel ID box instead, and remove the pasted code.
• Ads that point somewhere else (a Hypeddit page, a release page, your home page) get no pixel on your site with this on. Leave it off if your ads send people to other pages here.
• It needs an up-to-date Dirigible theme. With an older theme the pixel keeps loading on every page, and the setting says so.