Croma - Music WordPress Theme with Ajax and Continuous Playback

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ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC WORDPRESS THEME OF 2022!

Croma gives you the edge with Ajax Audio Player for Continuous Playback of your music as your fans browse your music website. Responsive, modern, get the professional look & sound. Croma is the perfect multi-purpose WordPress theme for Musicians, Music Bands, DJs and producers.

Continuous Audio Player & Music Album

Give your sound the attention it deserves with the standout feature in Croma; a professional built-in audio player that floats on top of your artist website no matter which page is viewed. This means your fans, users, managers and agents can preview and listen to your music on any page, and navigate your full site without any interruption to the sound. This is what makes Croma unique, this is what gives you the edge over the competition. Check it out for yourself on any of the nine stunning layouts that come fully prepared with your one-time purchase.

Designed for Music, Artists, Musicians, Record Labels & Producers

Croma has been carefully designed and developed from the ground up for today’s music industry. With Croma, there are plenty ways to show your artworks, albums and music with full integration of all the social media networks needed to promote and share your music and pages that make sense to the musician/artist in you. This includes Event, Gig and Tour pages, the all important Contact page, of course incredibly cool ways to play and preview your latest work and deep integration with WooCommerce so that you can monetize your site with a wicked online store.

Nine Stunning Musician Demos

You’re a muso, not a web designer! We hear ya That’s why with Croma you get 9 fully packed demos to kickstart your new musician website. If you have a web designer, they are gonna love you for doing all the hard work up front. We know you are going to love these designs, the layouts carefully accenting what is most important – your work – with fluid designs and relevant pages constructed to give you the one up over your competition when it comes to have a fully mad website for your band. Of course these are just starting points designed to make our life easier. Everything you need to get started is available with the 1-Click demo importer but everything is flexible and ready to customize to meet your needs.

Event & Music Gigs Manager

One of the most important requirements of a top notch music template has to be your upcoming events section… how else are your fans going to find you? With a feature rich events module built into the backed of Croma you can detail in as much information as you like your future gigs and events. Back it up with sections for brilliant flyers, posters and artworks with the ability to host your own Ticketing system and you’re onto a winner.

Super Responsive Design

Today’s fans are mobile. They are out at your gigs, they are at festival and they are using a wide variety of modern handheld devices and tablets predominantly. This is why Responsive Design is so important to you. Croma takes full advantage of this and will scale seamlessly across all of the devices out in the wild. You won’t have to worry about a thing. Check it out now, whatever device you are using, scroll and swipe left your way through some of our Live Demos now!

Flexible Headers

Headers and menus are really important features of your music theme, even more so to the user so that they have an excellent experience and navigation is intuitive and just ‘makes sense’. This is why Croma comes complete with an easy Menu Builder giving you the ultimate flexibility for creating perfect headers and a menu system that works for both you and your users.

Translation Ready

Good design also needs to meet global demands in terms of translation ready websites. Croma understands these needs and comes fully compatible with WPML – the top choice when it comes to translation today. Rest assured, Croma is the solution and all of this is possible with no coding required on your part. What are you waiting for?

Hot Links

Another great inclusion with Croma is the simple solution to add a ‘hot link’ to any page, anywhere. Hot links are like little hot navigation spots with anchor text so you can take a user from one page or section to another really quickly with the click of a button, link or icon.

Save Mega with Bundled Premium Plugins

WPBakery Essential Grid & Slider Revolution Included !

Taking your web design to the next level with the #1 Drag & Drop Page Builder, WPBakery included in the one off purchase price of Croma.

Create almost any web element you desire with the Drag & Drop simplicity, WPBakery (Formerly known as Visual Composer) is a powerhouse when it comes to building and designing custom web elements, and it’s so simple to use it’s actually hard to believe!

Don’t stop there, grab Slider Revolution as an added bonus too – as they say, it’s not just a Slider Plugin, it’s a new way to deliver ideas. Create beautiful content in a creative way whether it’s a Slider, Carousel, Hero Scene or Full Page video background you need, with this powerhouse Drag & Drop Editor Slider Revolution has you covered.

Changelog

THE CHANGELOG IS AVAILABLE HERE. MAKE SURE TO READ IT BEFORE YOU UPDATE YOUR THEME: https://croma.irontemplates.com/wp-content/themes/croma/changelog.txt

V.3.5.12 – 06.09.2023

- Updated: Essential Grid to 3.0.19  
- Updated: Slider Revolution to 6.6.16  
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 7.0  
- Updated: Croma-Music to 3.5.11  
- Fix compatibility with "Local Google Fonts" plugin   
- Change the way to download googlefont   

V.3.5.11 – 27.06.2023

- Updated: Essential Grid to 3.0.18  
- Updated: Slider Revolution to 6.6.14  
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 6.13.0  
- Updated: Croma-music to 3.5.10 

V.3.5.10 – 07.09.2022

- Fixed: PHP error in the wp-admin when croma-music is disable 
- Fixed: FOOTER vertical alignment issue with the ajax navigation. 
- Fixed: Fix slug default name issue 
- Fixed: Fix blinked hotlink icon issue with from the push menu  
- Fixed: Offset menu when it is set to "Center & Above menu" 
- Fixed: Broken link issue with the External Link Post feature  
- Updated: Slider Revolution to 6.5.31 
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 6.9.0 
- Updated: Essential Grid to 3.0.16 
- Updated: Croma-music to 3.5.9 
- Updated: Iron Demo Importer to 1.8 

V.3.5.9 – 05.05.2021

- Fixed: Remove player on the single album when it doenst have track 
- Fixed: Ajax Conflict with Contact Form 7  
- Updated: Slider Revolution to 6.4.11 
- Updated: Croma-music to 3.5.8 
    - Fixed: php errors on PHP8 

V.3.5.8 – 10.03.2021

- Fixed: php errors on PHP8
- Updated: ACF PRO to 5.9.5
- Updated: Slider Revolution to 6.4.3
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 6.6.0
- Updated: Croma-music to 3.5.7

V.3.5.7 – 05.02.2021

- Fixed: WPBakery transition issue
- Updated: Essential Grid to 3.0.11
- Updated: Slider Revolution to 6.3.9
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 6.5.0

V.3.5.6 – 23.12.2020

- Fixed: JS error when we scroll

V.3.5.5 – 08.12.2020

- Now compatible with WordPress 5.6
- Fixed: jQuery warnings for WP 5.6
- Fixed: Revolution Slider parallax issue
- Updated: Essential Grid to 3.0.9
- Updated: Slider Revolution to 6.3.2
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 6.4.2
- Updated: Croma-Music to 3.5.5
    - Fixed: Polylang plugin compatibility issue imations issue 
- Fixed: PHP error notice 

V.3.5.4 – 16.09.2020

- Updated: Essential Grid to 3.0.7 
- Updated: Slider Revolution to 6.2.23 
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 6.4.0 
- Updated: Croma-Music to 3.5.4 
    - Fixed: Fix order post issue 
    - Fixed: PHP error notice 
    - Fixed: WPBakery CSS Animations issue 
- Fixed: PHP error notice 

V.3.5.3 – 18.08.2020

- Updated: Essential Grid to 3.0.3
- Updated: Slider Revolution to 6.2.21
- Updated: Croma-music to 3.5.3
    - Fixed: PHP error notice

V.3.5.2 – 14.08.2020

- Updated: Croma-music to 3.5.2
    - Fixed: Croma Options issue caused by wordpress 5.5

V.3.5.1 – 14.07.2020

- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 6.2.0
- Updated: Essential Grid to 2.3.6.1
    -Fixed: Instagram Feed Issue
- Updated: croma-music to 3.5.1
- Fixed: Broken Alternate Logo feature
- Fixed: Share to twitter button
- Optimized: Page Banner Parallax animation

V.3.5 – 30.01.2020

- Add: NEW "Keep Image Ratio" option to the Artist Banner feature
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 6.1.0
- Updated: croma-music to 3.5

V.3.4.11 – 29.10.2019

- Updated: Essential Grid to 2.3.3
- Updated: Woocommerce templates
- Updated: croma-music to 3.4.7
    - Fixed: WPBabery page builder v6 compatibility issue

V.3.4.10 – 26.02.2019

- Updated: WPBakery page Builder Plugin to 5.7
- Updated: Slider Revolution 5.4.8.3
- Updated: Essential Grid to 2.3.2
- Fixed: Sidebar Croma theme option
- Fixed: Album grid minor issue
- Fixed: Tag archive template
- Fixed: Author archive template
- Fixed: Footer widget offset

V.3.4.9 – 04.12.2018

- Updated: Essential Grid 2.3
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 5.6 (Compatibility with Wordpress 5.0)
- Updated: Croma-music 3.4.5
    -Remove: Deprecated Favicon theme option
- Fixed: Outdated Woocommerce template version
- Fixed: RTL playlist issue
- Fixed: Album Artwork could not be clicked twice
- Menu loads faster on mobile

V.3.4.8 – 26.10.2018

- Updated: Croma-music to 3.4.4*
- Updated: Iron-demo-Imprter to 1.4
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 5.5.5*
- Fixed: Issue with php 7.2x
- Fixed: Essential Grid loading with the "Menu over content" option enable
- Fixed: Hotlink offset aligment on mobile
- Fixed: Event widget applied in the footer widget area
- Add Googlefonts IBM and Barlow 
- Add autoplay MUTED for video background

V.3.4.7 – 04.10.2018

- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 5.5.4
- Updated: Essential Grid to 2.2.5
- Fixed: Woocommerce single product content issue.
- Fixed: Issue when the feature "back to top button" is enable.
- Fixed: BandintTown loading issue. 

* To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.

V.3.4.6 – 13.07.2018

- Fixed: Audioplayer when multiple instance and Ajax is disabled.

V.3.4.5 – 22.06.2018

- Updated: Revolution Slider to 5.4.8
- Fixed: Woocommerce duplicated review

* To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.

V.3.4.4 – 04.06.2018

- Fixed: Issue with the third sub-menu
- Updated: Croma-Music Plugin to 3.2
    -Fixed: Past events now doesnts shows up in the upcoming event list

* To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.

V.3.4.3 – 17.05.2018

- Updated: FontAwsome library to 5
- Updated: Revolution Slider to 5.4.7.3

V.3.4.2 – 26.04.2018

*The Essential Grid plugin update will be required. When the theme is updated please go to wp-admin>appearance>install plugins to update Essential Grid to 2.2.4.1.(https://d.pr/free/i/W8QMIZ)

- Updated: Essential Grid to 2.2.4.1 which fix the Instagram API feed issue. 

V.3.4.1 – 16.03.2018

*The Essential Grid plugin update will be required. When the theme is updated please go to wp-admin>appearance>install plugins to update Essential Grid to 2.2.4.(https://d.pr/free/i/W8QMIZ)

- Updated: Essential Grid to 2.2.4 which fix the Instagram API feed issue. 
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder (Formerly Visual Composer) to 5.4.7 (Instruction: To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.)
- Updated: Revolution Slider to 5.4.7.1 (Instruction: To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.)
- Update Woocommerce template to be compatible with Woocommerce 3.3.1
- Add layout options on Woocommerce pages
- Add retina footer logo

V.3.4 – 31.01.2018

- Updated: Croma Music plugin to 3.3
- Added: On the single-artist, the social icons now open a _blank window instead of a _self window.
- Added: IMDB icon in font-awesome
- Fixed: In single-album, the release date field do not show anymore if there's no release date set
- Fixed: The countdown is not translatable
- Fixed: Artists are now listed by order name in the event filter dropdown
- Fixed: In the single-post when sidebar is not shown, we now show the large featured image instead of the medium.
- Fixed: Issue with scroll to top when clicking the VC caroussel arrows.
- Fixed: Minor display issues with WooCommerce and WooCommerce Related products
- Fixed: Issue with safari and the menu resizing
- Fixed: removed margin override on p tags
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder to 5.4.5 (Instruction: To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.)
- Updated: Revolution Slider to 5.4.6.4 (Instruction: To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.)

V.3.3.5 – 17.11.2017

- Update WPBakery Page Builder to 5.4.4 (Instruction: To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.)

- Updated: Revolution Slider to 5.4.6.3.1 (Instruction: To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.)

- Updated: Essential Grid to 2.1.6.2.2 which fix the Instagram feed issue. (Instruction: Please BACKUP your grid before updating the plugin -- To update Essential Grid, make a backup of your grids first: Go to WP-Admin > Ess. Grid > Import/Export. Click Export then click Export Selected. Save the .json file on your computer. Then go to WP-Admin > plugins > and delete Essential Grid. Now go to WP-Admin > Appearance > Install Plugins and install Essential Grid again. Once its activated, go to WP-Admin > Ess. Grid > Import/Export. Click Import and Import the .json file you previously exported. then click the green READ FILE button.

V.3.3.4 – 11.11.2017

- Updated: Essential Grid to 2.1.6.2 which fix the Instagram feed issue. Please BACKUP your grid before updating the plugin (read below).

* To update Essential Grid, make a backup of your grids first: Go to WP-Admin > Ess. Grid > Import/Export. Click Export then click Export Selected. Save the .json file on your computer. Then go to WP-Admin > plugins > and delete Essential Grid. Now go to WP-Admin > Appearance > Install Plugins and install Essential Grid again. Once its activated, go to WP-Admin > Ess. Grid > Import/Export. Click Import and Import the .json file you previously exported. then click the green READ FILE button.

To use Instagram Feed, you are now required to use the Instagram API and provide Access Token.  Please refer to this screencast that we’ve prepared for RevSlider. It works similarly with Essential Grid. https://youtu.be/7iIhXAaLSoM?hd=1 . Ref : https://jelled.com/instagram/access-token

V.3.3.3 – 11.09.2017

- Added: Now we display the name of the artist in the single-event page if there is an artist associated to the event.
- Fixed: Javascript conflict with Nicescroll. Nicescroll is no longer supported and shall be replaced by your own third party plugins
- Fixed: Hotlinks order is now the same for desktop vs mobile
- Fixed: Issue with the language switch widget when using Ajax
- Fixed: Issue with the non-ajax player and the auto-play feature.
- Fixed: Fix query posttype
- Fixed: Anchor menu color issue (https://d.pr/i/6CbMTN)
- Fixed: Countdown display
- Fixed: The 'release date' string was not translatable.
- Fixed: Deprecated WooCommerce template
- Updated: Croma Music plugin to 3.2.3
- Updated: WPBakery Page Builder (Formerly Visual Composer) to 5.4.2 **
- Updated: Revolution Slider to 5.4.6.2 **
- Updated: Font Awesome to 4.7.0 
- Updated: Essential Grid to 2.1.6.1 *

 * To update Essential Grid, make a backup of your grids first: Go to WP-Admin > Ess. Grid > Import/Export. Click Export then click Export Selected. Save the .json file on your computer. Then go to WP-Admin > plugins > and delete Essential Grid. Now go to WP-Admin > Appearance > Install Plugins and install Essential Grid again. Once its activated, go to WP-Admin > Ess. Grid > Import/Export. Click Import and Import the .json file you previously exported. then click the green READ FILE button.

** To update WPBakery Page Builder and Revolution Slider, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.

V.3.3.2 – 09.12.2017

- Added: Support for WP-CLI
- Fixed: Player skip to the next track when song is finished instead of jumping to another song randomly.
- Fixed: Minor visual adjustment of the play and pause button in tracklist
- Fixed: Waveform now always shows up after being loaded
- Updated: Croma-Music Plugin to 3.2.2 *

- To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won’t loose anything.

V.3.3.1 – 08.30.2017

- Updated: Better documentation on how to import demos.
- Removed: Unused scripts for better performance.

V.3.3 – 08.17.2017

- Refactored the theme codes and scripts for best coding practice and security.
- Added: When no retina logo is set, standard logo is applied.
- Added: Artist name, album name and release date now shows up above the tracklist.
- Added: Artist name now shows up on the album page below the Album name.
- Added: Offline documentation
- Fixed: Audio Player play/pause issue when coming from an artist page.
- Fixed: Now the image of the album switch if you change tracks.
- Fixed: Menu items alignment when the browser's window is resized
- Fixed: Better behavior of the tracklist if your track title contains a very very long name.
- Updated: Croma-Music Plugin to 3.2
- * Updated: Iron Demo Importer to version 1.2
- * Updated: Visual Composer to 5.2.1
- * Updated: Revolution Slider to 5.4.5.2

* To update the plugin, go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and re-install the plugin. You won't loose anything.

V.3.2.2 – 05.25.2017

- Demo Importer Plugin is now included in the package
- Improved the color of the arrows in the push Menu
- Improved the color of the social media icons in the push menu
- Fixed the visited: class color of the post-grid widget (used on The Grid demo)

V.3.2.1 – 04.26.2017

- Fixed an issue with the theme option when you hit save: it redirected you to the theme page instead of the theme options.
- Disabled the parallax for IE and IE Edge browser because of a cross-browser incompatibility.

V.3.2 – 04.24.2017

- Refactored for WooCommerce 3.*
- Updated Croma Music to 3.1.3
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.3. (Go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and install the new plugin)
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.1.1. (Go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and install the new plugin)
- Fixed compatibility issue with Yoast SEO plugin and page loading
- Fixed other minor bugs
- Removed unnecessary specific CSS files for browser detection
- Fixed translation slug on Croma-Music plugin to make its backend translatable

V.3.1.1 – 04.01.2017

- Fixed audio player issue causing the playlist playing in random order
- Fixed issue on the mobile menu
- Added an option to disable redirection on event single
- Updated Croma-Music plugin to 3.1.2 (Go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and install the new plugin again)
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.1 (Go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and install the new plugin again)
- Added Freemius SDK

V.3.1 – 03.10.2017

- New feature! Option to redirect your event to an external link
- Fixed scrollbar issue. The scrollbar was behind the menu and backgrounds and it's now fixed. * Action Required for people who have previously imported the Capital demo. Go to wp-admin > croma > look and feel and move your Content Background image to the Main Background option.
- Fixed alignment for event list. It's now centered.
- Fixed issue with Essential Grid that was not working with Ajax. (Go to WP-Admin > Plugins > Delete the plugin then go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and install the new plugin again)
- Fixed minor issue with past events that redirect to a 404
- Fixed Audio Player on mobile in the artist page
- Updated some google fonts

V.3.0 – 02.23.2017

- New feature! We fully support multiple artists !
- New feature! Archive page for artists
- New feature! Single page for artist
- New feature! Events and Discography can now be associated with artist(s)
- New feature! Events and Discography have categories

V.2.2.4 – 02.10.2017

- Audio streaming when Ajax is not enabled
- Bug fix for the audioplayer

V.2.2.3 – 01.23.2017

- Updated the audio player to start the audio in streaming
- Updated Croma Music to 2.4
- Bug fix when "current page item" was not updated in ajax
- Fixed an issue with Revolution Slider and the Event shortcode

V.2.2.2 – 01.11.2017

- Fixed an issue when selecting the default archive option
- Bug fix with essentialGrid and the ajax option
- bug fix with Safari in IOS and the video grid
- Bug fix with Woocommerce and the ajax option
- Bug fix with inline js and the ajax option

V.2.2.1 – 12.22.2016

- New feature on Visual Composer shortcode button. You can choose an album to play on click event.
- Updated Revolution Slider 5.3.1.5
- Updated PSD file with the new demo.
- Fixed the home link on the mobile menu.

V.2.2 – 12.20.2016

- New feature! Save the custom stylesheet in a file for speed improvement.
- Updated Croma Music to version 2.3
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.0.1
- Fixed visual for checkbox in ContactForm plugin
- Fixed visual for captcha in ContactForm plugin
- Fixed the footer logo not appearing
- Added class "no-ajax" to use when a link as to be treated without ajax

V.2.1.5 – 11.25.2016

- Updated the listing of songs in single album template
- Updated template for single product woocommerce
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.0
- Updated Croma Music plugin to 2.2
- Fixed Event message when there's no event
- Improving the social share speed
- Removed Addthis

V.2.1.4 – 11.06.2016

- Bug fix with the push menu

V.2.1.3 – 11.03.2016

- Bug fix with the logo on classic menu
- Fixed some issues with the niceScroll

v2.1.2 – October 26th 2016

- Bug fix with the footer, the continuous player and body Class

v2.1.1 – October 25th 2016

- Fixed some issues with the footer and the continuous player
- Fixed some issues when some inline script where loaded before their library

v2.1 – October 21th 2016

- Updated the design of the single album template
- Fixed some issues with the Classic Menu on mobile version
- Fixed the audio player when the option Ajax is not enabled
- Fixed the languages Area in the Classic Menu
- Bug fix with the Ajax version
- Updated Croma Music plugin to 2.1

v2.0 – October 3th 2016

- Added an option to enable Ajax through all your page. This option automatically enable a continuous audio player through your pages while users navigate your site. Page load time is also improved 2x faster.
- Updated Visual Composer to 4.12.1.
- Added a "Back" button when using sub-menus in Push menu mode.
- Fixed some issues with touch-screen displays.
- Fixed Google Fonts on the audio player.
- Removed a call to a Facebook script if you are not using it.
- Updated Croma Music plugin to 2.0

V1.2 – September 8th 2016

- Adding a new universal widget areas for language selector

V.1.1 – August 3th 2016

- Fixed video lightbox on mobile.
- Fixed error notices when using PHP 5.4 and less. Now it's 100% compatible.
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.2.6

V.1.0 – March 2016

- Initial version