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Theater for WordPress

Manage and publish events for your theater, live venue, cinema, club or festival.

By Jeroen Schmit·Shows·Free
4.9(25 reviews)
·600 active installs·Updated 3 months ago
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As of April 2026, Theater for WordPress is a WordPress shows plugin with 600 active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 25 reviews. It has been downloaded 43K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Gigs Calendar.

4.9/525 reviews
600active installs
0%resolved
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

A WordPress plugin to manage and publish events for your theater, live venue, cinema, club or festival.

Shortcodes

Theater comes with several shortcodes and widgets to show off your events. See the documentation for an overview.

Import events from your existing ticketing solution

  • ActiveTickets
  • Seatgeek Entreprise/SRO4
  • AudienceView Professional
  • Billeto
  • Brown Paper Tickets
  • Ovatic
  • OvationTix
  • Place2Book
  • Reservix
  • RTS
  • Stager
  • TicketingCiné
  • ThunderTix
  • Ticketlab
  • Ticketmaster
  • Ticketmatic
  • Ticketportal
  • Ticketsource
  • Ticketweb
  • Timepad.ru / Главная
  • Veezi

Extensions

  • Event Duplicator – 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.
  • Events Feed – Automatically show your events in your email…
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.925 reviews
5 ★
24
4 ★
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3 ★
1
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1 ★
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Compatibility

WordPress4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP5.4+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.19

Release Date: November 4, 2025

  • Enhancements
    • Hardened transients so listings stay fresh on busy sites.
  • Bugfix
    • Sanitizes forwarded shortcode attributes in [wpt_production_events] to block XSS payloads from reaching nested [wpt_events] output.
    • Ensures importer errors are always recorded and saved so integrators can diagnose feed issues reliably.

    …and 8 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Jeroen SchmitJeroen Schmit
Plugin Info
Version
0.19.1
Last Updated
Dec 17, 2025
WP Requires
4.7+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
5.4+
Active Installs
600
Downloads
43K+
Added
Dec 22, 2013
Business
Free

Tags

showsstagevenueeventstheatre

Developer

J
Jeroen Schmit
5 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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