@shawn – I don’t know that a plugin is what you are looking for. Part of what you are asking for can be handled by parent / child themes which ICE supports. The parent theme that you maintain contains all of the templates which a band / musician might need. They then select which categories get assigned through the post > categories menu. If you need to customize them for their specific site, you can override the logic via the child theme.

However if you are customizing the actual process of adding content to posts / pages / media / etc, then ICE won’t make any difference. I haven’t heard of anything – outside of Gravity Forms – which would help, but the vision for that sounds much different than what you’re after.

I ahve a ‘techy’ question though:

I am running wordpress-mu and host a number of client websites. Here is my scenario, just curious if what I need is possible with this plugin.

say I want to create a network of sites where musicians can come and signup, receive their own wp blog. No problem there, that’s what mu is built for.

Then I use your plugin to create a custom input template and also output templates. Once again, no problem that is what your plugin is for.

Here’s where I get stuck.

I want to ‘export’ my custom input/export templates to a new plugin that is available for all the blogs to use, even those blogs that do not yet exist.

think of it like a musician signs up and already has the tools prebuilt in to create their own custom albums using the forms I built previously.

that pretty much sums it up. I have tried numerous plugins like this, but none seems to allow me to ‘export’ my work into a plugin that can be auto activated for new blogs.

How would you ‘attack’ this issue?

thanks for the great plugin!