Category Archives: ChordsAndLyrics WP Plugin

The chords and lyrics WordPress plugin allows the display of formatted chords sheets.
Chord symbols such as C#m or Bb7 within square brackets can be embedded inline with lyric text.
When displayed within a [chordsandlyrics] …. [/chordsandlyrics] block, the chord symbols will be displayed on a line above the text at the point where it appeared.

Test Song Post

Posted on December 2, 2010

I’m currently updating the Chords and Lyrics WordPress plugin. The is just a copy of the test-song page used for testing it. Song Title This is text before chordsandlyrics. This section specifies size=”small”: This is text following chordsandlyrics. (C)Copyright 2008-2010, … Continue reading →

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Chords and Lyrics WP plugin Public Release v1.3

Posted on December 23, 2009

I’ve submitted the form to WordPress.org requesting access to their svn to release the Chords and Lyrics publicly. I’ve removed the old widget, and replaced it with an options page in the Users admin menu. Since this is per-user configurable, … Continue reading →

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Updated ChordsAndLyrics Plugin

Posted on June 21, 2008

I’ve been using the plugin now for a couple months on our church band website with pretty good success. I’m working now on posting it publicly. I’ve created a folder for it at http://lisles.net/ChordsAndLyrics. I’ve also created a new category … Continue reading →

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Extending WordPress to Display Music Chords & Lyrics

Posted on May 7, 2008

It plan on extending WordPress to support creating music lead sheets using a ChordPro type syntax. This syntax uses square brackets to enclose tags describing music attributes of a song (eg. [Title], [Composer], [Tempo]) in addition to chord names (eg. … Continue reading →

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Music & Lyrics WordPress Theme

Posted on May 7, 2008

Following some additional study of WordPress, it appears that what I am trying to accomplish can be done by creating a Theme. WordPress Themes A Theme is simply a collection of custom Template files. WordPress Templates A Template file is … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on using WordPress for posting lyrics/chords

Posted on May 7, 2008

After further research and thinking, it appears that song sheets could be posted using a “Songs” category. Posting Songs A full song listing could then be displayed by selecting the “Songs” category. A custom template could be created to display … Continue reading →

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WordPress Links Not Working

Posted on March 12, 2008

The category links, among others, are not working. I believe that the problem is related to permalinks, which require .htaccess be modified. This appears to only be happening on my local server and not on the remote server. I need … Continue reading →

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