The setup wizard

The setup wizard is a short series of screens that asks for what your music school website needs before students can book: your school's name, how people reach you, the instruments you teach, your tutors and their hours, your lessons and prices, when you're open and how online booking works. At the end it can start the website in the Amp design, add a full set of ready-made pages, a main menu, sample photos and sample content, so you start from a finished-looking website instead of blank pages.

It takes about five minutes. Everything you type can be changed later, and nothing you skip is lost.

This page covers the Music kit's wizard step by step. For the wizard in general (how the steps, Back and Skip for now work), see The setup wizard in the shared chapters. Features marked (Pro) need a Pro or Agency licence.

When the wizard opens

The wizard opens by itself the first time you sign in to WordPress after you switch on the Music kit plugin (a plugin is an add-on for WordPress) and the Music theme. See Installing.

Until you finish it, a reminder appears at the top of the Dashboard, the Plugins and Themes screens and the Music school screen. Click Continue setup to go back to where you left off.

How to run the setup wizard again

1. Go to Music school → Settings.
2. Click Run setup again at the top right.

Running it again is safe. It never adds an instrument, tutor or lesson type twice, the starter content step never makes copies, and pages you have edited are left alone. The design choice is only offered on a new website, so running the wizard again never changes your design.

The steps

The bar at the top shows all ten steps. A green tick means the step is saved. You can click any step's name to jump to it.

Step 1: Welcome

The first screen lists the steps ahead and reminds you that everything is also under Music school → Settings.

1. Read the list. It is numbered the same way as the steps in the bar at the top.
2. Click Let's start.

Step 2: Your school

Your school's name and logo appear on the website, in emails and on the staff sign-in page.

1. In Trading name, type the name students know you by, for example "Riverside Music School". It is also used as the website's title.

2. In Registered company name (optional), type your company's name as registered. Leave it blank to use the trading name.

3. In Tagline (optional), type a short line about your school. It shows in the footer and in search results.

4. Under the boxes, click Choose image. The media library opens.

5. Click Upload files and choose your logo from your computer (or pick one you've already uploaded in Media Library), then click Use this image.

   

6. The logo now shows in the box, with Change image and Remove next to it. You can also leave it and add it later.

7. Click Save and continue.

Step 3: How people reach you

These details show in the website's header, footer and contact sections.

1. In Phone numbers, type your numbers, one per line, the main number first.
2. In WhatsApp number (optional), type a number only if it is on WhatsApp, in international format (for example +447700900123). Leave it blank to hide the WhatsApp buttons.
3. In Public email, type the address students and parents should see.
4. In Address, type the school's address. Line breaks are kept.
5. In Send notifications to, type the address that should get new lesson requests, cancellations and contact form messages. For several people, put commas between the addresses.
6. Click Save and continue.

Step 4: Instruments

Visitors choose an instrument first when they book, and each tutor is linked to the instruments they teach.

1. Tick what you teach: Piano, Keyboard, Guitar, Bass guitar, Ukulele, Violin, Cello, Drums, Singing, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet and Music theory. Nothing is ticked to begin with.
2. In Anything else you teach (optional), type any instrument that isn't listed, one per line, for example "Harp".
3. Click Save and continue.

You must tick at least one instrument, or the wizard asks you to before it moves on. Instruments you've already added show "(added)".

Step 5: Tutors

Tell the wizard who teaches, what, and when. There is room for three tutors here; add more later.

For each tutor:

1. Type their Name.
2. In Email (optional), type their email address. It is used for news of their lessons and is never shown on the website.
3. Under Teaches, tick the instruments they teach (from step 4).
4. Under Teaching days, tick the days they teach (Monday to Friday start ticked).
5. Set From and Until (they start at 15:30 and 19:30).
6. Tick Give them a sign-in to see their own lessons if they should have their own account. This gives them the Tutor role; they set their password with "Lost your password?" on the sign-in page. It needs an email address.

Leave a tutor's Name empty to skip that box. Then click Save and continue.

Add photos, a profile, more hours and days off later under Music school → Tutors.

Step 6: Lessons and prices

The lessons people can book, with their length and price.

1. Tick the lessons you offer and untick the others.
2. Change the Minutes if you need to and type a Price (optional) for each. A price of 0 shows as "Free".
3. Switch Show prices on the website on to show your prices. It starts off: visitors see "Prices on request".
4. In Note under the prices (optional), add a line such as "Discounts for siblings and termly blocks."
5. Click Save and continue.

Change them later under Music school → Lesson types.

Step 7: Opening days

Lessons are only offered inside these hours (and each tutor's own hours).

1. For each day, the Open switch says whether the school is open. Switch it off for a closed day.
2. Set the opening and closing times. The wizard starts with Monday to Thursday 15:00 to 20:00, Friday 15:00 to 19:00, Saturday 9:00 to 15:00 and Sunday closed.
3. In Days the school is closed (optional), type one date per line, then a note, for example "2026-12-24 Christmas break". No lessons can be booked on those days.
4. Click Save and continue.

Step 8: Online booking

These settings are also under Music school → Settings → Lessons.

1. Take lesson bookings online starts on. Off: the booking form says to contact you instead.
2. Instant confirmation: confirm online bookings straight away starts off. Off (recommended): each online booking is a request; the office confirms or declines it under Music school → Lessons, and the time is held meanwhile. On: bookings are confirmed at once, and the student gets the confirmation email and calendar invite straight away.
3. One trial lesson per person starts on: a trial lesson can be booked once per email address.
4. Notice needed (hours): how soon someone can book (it starts at 48, so nothing sooner than two days away).
5. Book up to (weeks ahead): how far ahead people can book (it starts at 8).
6. Offer start times every (minutes): 30 offers 4:00, 4:30, 5:00 and so on.
7. Click Save and continue.

Step 9: Starter content

This is where the wizard builds your website. Each switch adds one kind of ready-made content. Switch on the ones you want, then click Save and continue. Running this step again never makes copies.

While the starter content is added

When you click Save and continue, a box appears under the switches: Adding your starter content… Please keep this page open. Each part you switched on gets a line that says working… and then done. The sample photos are added a few at a time, so their line counts up, for example Sample photos: 17 of 49.

Keep the page open. It takes a minute or two, mostly for the photos. When everything is done, the next step opens by itself. If the box turns red and says This didn't finish, click Save and continue again: the wizard carries on where it stopped and never adds anything twice.

Step 10: All done

The last screen lists what this run of the wizard did (anything an earlier run added isn't listed again), then gives you four links: See the website, Open Music school → Today, Review all settings and Add staff and choose what they can do.

Click Finish. The wizard closes and you land on Music school → Today.

What you have at the end

With every switch on, the wizard leaves you with:

• Your instruments, tutors and lesson types from steps 4 to 6.
• Design: Amp.
• Pages: Home (the front page), Lessons and prices, Book a lesson, About us, Contact, FAQ, News, Practice tools and Photo credits, all published. Terms and conditions, Privacy Policy and Cookie policy are drafts.
• Main menu: Home, Lessons, Tutors, Events, a Discover list (Gallery, Resources, News, About us, FAQ) and Contact, with Book a lesson and Call us buttons.
• Sample content:
  • five FAQs: What age can my child start?, Do I need my own instrument?, Can I take graded exams?, How much should we practise? and What if we need to cancel?
  • three testimonials, from "Alex", "Jordan" and "Priya"
  • two events: Summer student concert, and Open day: try an instrument
  • a practice resource: Ten-minute practice plan
  • a gallery album: "Concerts and lessons (sample photos)"
• Photos: 49 sample photos in the media library, listed with their photographers on the Photo credits page.

This is the home page a visitor sees straight after the wizard, in the Amp design:

How to remove the sample content

There's no single "remove samples" button. The sample items don't say "Sample" in their titles, so use the list above to find them.

1. Go to FAQs (in the main WordPress menu) and move the five sample questions to the Trash (tick them, choose Move to Trash from Bulk actions and click Apply).
2. Do the same under Testimonials (Alex, Jordan, Priya), Events (the two sample events), Resources (Ten-minute practice plan) and Gallery (the album "Concerts and lessons (sample photos)").

To remove the sample photos, put your own photos on the pages first, then go to Media, search for "Pexels", select the sample photos and delete them permanently. Then update the Photo credits page.

Next steps

• Designs: Amp, Recital, Little Notes, Classic and the other designs, their colour palettes, and how to switch.
• Quick start: the checklist from here to your first lesson booking.
• Your look: your logo, colours, menus and footer.