This extension makes it possible to automatically show your events in your email newsletter.
Email marketing solutions, such as Mailchimp, offer the possibility to embed RSS content in your email. This can either be extra content inside a normal mailing or an automated periodic mailing.
With the Events Feed for Theater extension you can create RSS feeds with your own events. You can setup several feeds and fully control which events appear in each feed.
Example: monthly events newsletter
We are going to create a newsletter in Mailchimp that contains a list of all events that take place in the coming month.
you added some events that take place in the coming month.
Purschase, install and activate the Events feed for Theater extension.
Go to the Theater → Settings → Feeds screen.
Enter a name for your feed. Set the from date to ‘Today’ and the end date to ‘Today + 1 month’. Click on ‘Save Changes’.
The events feed settings screen
You feed is added to the list of feeds. Click on ‘preview’ to see the contents:
Your RSS feed with upcoming events.
Store the URL of your feed somewhere. You need this later on.
Now go to your Mailchimp account and start a new (regular) campaign. Set it up just like you always do. When you get to the ‘Design’ step of your campaign, paste the following code in the text of your email:
Add details such as Director | Country | Year | Duration to your movies.
This extension to the Theater for WordPress plugin adds input fields that are essential to cinemas. Simply choose which fields you’d like to use on your website, and where to show them.
Choose which fields you’d like to useEnrich your productions with cinematographic detailsShow the cinema details where you like: In the title, above the content, below the content, or in the sidebar using a widget
Automatically import your Stager events and sell them on your WordPress website.
With this extension to the Theater for WordPress plugin your Stager events and their promotional information are directly added to your WordPress website. Ticket sales takes place in the customizable and responsive ticket shop of Stager.
Your events are automatically imported from StagerPromotional information: Texts, featured image, categories and videos are imported from Stager and shown on your website
Enter your Stager Base URL and Token on the Stager tab in the Theater for WordPress settings and choose an interval for synchronisation (eg. 5 minutes).
Your events are now available in WordPress!
Stager
Stager Software offers a full force event management and ticketing solution that helps you with planning your events, finding the right crowd and selling a lot of tickets.
Import event information and setup your ticket sales with Stager. It happens automagically!
Free Digital Signage showcasing your Stager events?
Looking for a smart way to communicate your shows onsite, on digital screens at your entrance or bar? Meet Foyer – Digital Signage for WordPress, the free Digital Signage plugin that integrates with Stager!
Install Foyer to your website and effortlessly create an automatically up-to-date slide show displaying your upcoming shows. Check out this demo slide show, or read more about Foyer now.
The Motion Picture Association of America’s (MPAA) film-rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film’s suitability for certain audiences, based on its content.
This extension adds a new MPAA Film Rating box to the production edit screen. There you can set the rating by clicking on the proper icon:
You can then show the rating with the {{mpaa}} template placeholder:
This extension adds structured data about your events to your website. Google uses this information to show your events as Rich Snippets in search results.
Event Rich Snippets add one or more lines with structured details of upcoming events below your search result, like this:
Google also uses this information to add your events to the Google Knowledge Graph, visible to millions of users each day in Google Search, Google Maps, and other products.
Check out this entertaining video by Google for a full explanation:
FAQ
Can I fixate the venue name of my events to the name of my theater?
Venues with more than one room (eg. Main Hall and Small Hall) often use the venue field to display the name of the room. If you want the name of your theater to show up in Google’s Rich Snippets, than you need to put the following code inside the functions.php of your theme:
Generate an access token in the Veezi Back Office and enter it in the Access Token field.
Save your settings.
Go to Theater → Events.
You now see an overview of all your films:
At this point, all your films are still saved as drafts. You can now edit your films, add extra information (eg. a featured image, video trailers of reviews) and publish them.
Show your events
You can show your upcoming films on a page.
Go to Pages → Add new.
Give your page a title (eg. ‘Upcoming events’).
Click on Publish.
Go to Theater → Settings → Display.
Set Page to show upcoming events on to the page that you just created.
Set Position on page to show above content.
Scroll down to the Dates on event pages section.
Set Position on page to show above content over here as well.
Click on Save Changes.
Go to Theater → Settings → Style.
Check Enable built-in Theater stylesheet.
Click on Save Changes.
The page that you created now shows your upcoming films:
About Veezi
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Show your event showtimes in a clear table layout. Perfect for cinemas and festivals.
This extension for the Theater for WordPress plugin adds a new [wpt_productions_timetable] shortcode. Place it anywhere on your site to display an events list with timetables:
This free extension adds a new action to the event editor that instantly duplicates the event. Very helpful if your need to enter a lot of events at once.
