Pendulum - Beat Producers, DJs & Events Theme for WordPress

Scamp Music Player

The Scamp Music Player is the industry-standard, fully responsive player that scales to any device while delivering lightning-fast load times and lightweight performance. It includes full SoundCloud API support to add tracks directly, dynamically loads content into the playlist, and features distinctive covers for individual tracks.

WPBakery Page Builder

Take your music site to the top with Pendulum and the bundled WPBakery Page Builder (formerly WPBakery). This drag-and-drop tool lets you create any web element with a simple visual interface, no coding required, enabling fast, complex layouts.

Email Marketing

Marketing is crucial in the music business. Pendulum integrates with your MailChimp account to create email marketing opportunities, capture leads, manage subscriptions, send campaigns, and share event details to targeted lists with flexible, powerful options.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is integrated for easy, customizable forms. You can add forms to posts, create custom fields, specify email subjects, use CAPTCHA for security, and deploy simple shortcodes to build complex forms without coding.

Latest Tech Developments

Pendulum is built from the ground up for the music industry, using the latest web technologies. It runs on the fast, lightweight Muttley Framework and emphasizes HTML5 & CSS3 coding, AJAX search, a feature-rich music player, MP3 file support, parallax imagery, and more.

Responsive Design

The theme includes a comprehensive responsive design that works across laptops, mobiles, smartphones, tablets, and even smartwatches. With CSS-driven scaling, the music player and site layout adapt automatically for a cohesive mobile experience.

One Click Demo Import

Choose a demo, upload your zip file, and unpack it with a single click. Install is quick and complete, bringing the demo content and features into your new WordPress site.

Stunning Advanced Headers

A beautiful header can make a strong first impression. Pendulum provides advanced header designs that can include titles, images, sliders, videos, and maps, displayable on every page, post, or portfolio, and customizable to suit your needs.

There’s More Beneath the Hood

Beyond the visible features, Pendulum offers a wealth of customizable and reusable web elements, multiple layout ideas for promoting events, image galleries that harmonize with background music, and merch shop capabilities for fans—designed to take your site to the next level within a familiar WordPress package.

Complete List of Features

• One click demo import. Chose a demo, upload your zip file, and unpack it; everything in the selected Demo installs with your WordPress site.
• Music player, with playlist. Built-in player supports seamless playback and track management.
• Easily add self hosted MP3, hosted MP3, shotcast streaming. Flexible audio sources to populate the playlist.
• WPBakery for WordPress ($25 value). Drag & drop page builder to save time and create complex layouts quickly.
• Custom Post Formats – Pendulum supports following custom blog post formats: Standard, Gallery, Video, Audio.
• Event Manager – set repetitive and multi-day events with a countdown to the next event.
• Events archive – automatically switch from future to past after events occur.
• Localization of every single event – Google Maps integration.
• Background Generator – simple way to create a different background for each page, post, etc.
• Slide Panel – slide widget area with an invisible scroller, automatically closing after page load.
• Contact Form 7 Integration.
• Integrated comments from DISQUS. You can turn them off in the admin panel.
• MailChimp List SignUp Integration.
• Responsive Layout.
• 4 Custom post types: Portfolio (drag drop ajax sorter); EventsSlider (drag drop ajax sorter); Tracks Manager (drag drop ajax sorter).
• 3 Custom widgets: Recent Posts – Displays recent posts; Twitter – Displays latest tweets.
• Retina Ready.
• Translation Ready (Include .po, .mo and .pot files).
• Unlimited sidebars.
• Full localization – template and administrative interface. You can easily translate them to your own language.
• Gorgeous jQuery enhancements.
• Unlimited blog pages.
• Powerful administration panel.
• HTML5 and CSS3.
• Cross browser compatible – designed to work with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and more.
• Cross browser compatibility and W3C validation. Ensures reliable performance across environments.
• Clean, well-commented, and organized code and files.