How To Add A New Audio Product
This article will guide you through the process of adding and customizing a new audio product on your ModelX website.
Step 1
Navigate to your website and log in with your admin account. You can access the Login page by clicking the member icon in the top right corner of your website.
After clicking the icon, you will find yourself on the login screen. There, enter your username or email into the Username or email field, your password into the Password field, and press Sign in.
Note: You can find your admin login details in one of the support tickets in the Vicetemple client area. If you’re not sure where to find them, feel free to send us a message over live chat.
After logging in, click on your website’s name in the admin toolbar at the top.
Scroll down the page and locate the Audio option in the sidebar on the left, hover over it, and select Add New when the menu appears.
Step 2
Once the Add new audio page loads, enter a title for your audio track into the Audio name input field.
Step 3
Locate the Product Data section, which includes all the audio product-related options, such as Payment type, Audio, Audio preview, and Download – to name some of them.
Under the Payment type option, select one of the three available ways for your members to access the audio track:
- Free — the track will be accessible immediately, for all website visitors,
- Paid — the track will become accessible for a member after they buy it,
- Subscription — the track will be accessible only for members with active subscriptions.
Selecting Free will display a new option — Only for registered — that will let you choose whether the audio product will be available to all visitors or only registered members.
Switch on the toggle to make the audio product free only for your registered members.
Note: Not to be confused with subscription products that require members to pay to access your content. The product will be free and accessible the moment a member logs into the site.
Selecting Paid will display a new input field — Price — where you can specify how much you want to charge for the audio track (1) and a checkbox — Free for membership — to make it available to your active subscribers (2).
Note: Enabling the Free for membership checkbox will effectively give your members two ways to access the product: on-demand (direct purchase for a set price) or monthly subscription.
Selecting Subscription has no additional options. Products with this payment type can be accessed only by members with active subscriptions.
Step 4
Add the audio track using one of the following methods: direct link or direct upload.
Direct Link
To use this option, paste a direct link to the audio file into the Audio field. The file can be hosted on any website as long as the URL is publicly accessible and ends with one of the supported extensions (aac, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, wma, flac, or m4a).
Note: Although the ModelX theme can play AAC and WMA formats, the WordPress CMS cannot retrieve their duration. Therefore, your website will display their duration as 0:00 despite supporting these formats.
Direct Upload
Alternatively, click the upload button at the end of the Audio field. Once the Audio popup opens, choose the Upload files tab.
Then, click the Select Files button to upload an audio file from your device.
Note: The audio file should contain only alphanumeric symbols (A to Z and 0 to 9), hyphens (-), and underscores (_) to avoid potential errors.
Finally, choose the file in the Media Library tab, and click Select in the bottom right corner.
This file will be immediately available if the payment type is set to Free. Otherwise, a member can only listen to the preview version until they purchase the full version or subscribe, based on your settings for the audio track.
Step 5
Repeat the instructions from Step 4 for the Audio Preview field to add a preview version of the track.
Visitors can listen to the preview as a snippet of what the full track contains until they pay to unlock the full version added to the Audio field.
Step 6
Choose whether you want your members to be able to download the audio track by setting the Download field to Yes or No, respectively.
If you disable downloading, the theme will hide the Download button from the audio product’s page and prevent your members from accessing the file directly, thus preventing them from downloading it.
Important: The download protection feature will work only on the files you upload to your website. It cannot prevent externally hosted files from being downloaded.
Step 7
Write a description for your audio in the Description field, to provide context and improve your website’s SEO. This step is optional.
The field includes a text editor that supports numerous features, including, but not limited to, text formatting, media files, and links.
Step 8
After uploading the audio track, we recommend assigning it categories to allow for easier website filtering. This step is optional.
Existing Category
To add an existing category, click the input field under Audio categories and select one or more desired categories from the drop-down list.
New Category
To add a new category, open the Categories page linked under Audio in a new browser tab.
On the Audio Categories page, enter the name of your new category into the Name field and click the Add New Audio Category button further below.
Then, switch back to the Add new audio page and click the Save Draft button in the top right section.
Saving your changes will refresh the page, and the newly-added category will become available in the Audio categories drop-down. Then, follow the Existing Category instructions above to apply that category to the video.
Step 9
Select a page layout template from the Content block drop-down to structure your product page’s design and features. The ModelX theme comes with one premade template for audio products, named Audio. You are free to add and use as many templates as you like.
Step 10
Click the Publish button in the top right section.
Voilà! The audio product is now available on your site.
