Theater for WordPress

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.
  • Requires valid nonces and capabilities before saving custom production permalinks, preventing unauthorized permalink changes.
  • Adds the missing $event context to the wpt/event/template/field/value filter so custom templates keep receiving the right data.
  • Restores the original publication status when productions or events are untrashed, keeping revived content visible without extra clicks.
  • Fixes PHP 8.2 warnings across Theater models.
  • Fixes disappearing import cron schedules (0.19.1).
  • Fixes two security issues inside the event editor (0.19.1).
• Deprecations
  • Removed the long-abandoned custom CSS manager, simplifying legacy code paths.

0.18

Release Date: September 1, 2020

• Enhancements
  • Adds Gutenberg/Block Editor support to events and a new ‘Import Events’ page.
• Bugfix
  • Fixes a PHP warning (0.18.2).
  • Fixes an XSS vulnerability (0.18.4).
  • Fixes a PHP error when manually inserting an Event through wp_insert_post() (0.18.5).
  • Fixes PHP warnings that were introduced in PHP 8.2 (0.18.6).
• Deprecations
  • Removed the Cart widget because nobody was using it (0.18.2).

0.17

Release Date: August 17, 2020

Introducing Jeero as a new way to import events from popular ticketing solutions.

0.16

Release Date: July 25, 2018

• Enhancements
  • Added date and category filter to the events admin screen.
  • Added a custom excerpt to embedded events (using oEmbed).
  • Made it possible to paginate events by tag. See the updated docs.
  • Made it possible to group events by tag. See the updated docs.
• Bugfix
  • Fixed a performance issue if your site uses a lot of transients (0.16.1).
  • Fixed a timezone issue with groupby/paginateby inside listings (0.16.1).
  • Fixed a problem with jQuery in WordPress 5.5 (0.16.2).
  • Fixed a problem with the tickets url inside an iframe on subfolder based multisite installs (0.16.2).
  • Fixed another problem with jQuery in WordPress 5.5 (0.16.3). Now uses flatpickr for a datepicker.

0.15

Release Date: March 22nd, 2016

This release focusses on a more streamlined experience when managing your events. Let me know what you think and if you are missing anything in the forum.

• Enhancements

  • Renamed ‘productions’ to ‘events’.
  • Simplified the events admin screen.
  • Added a new {{prices}} placeholder for events (0.15.3).
  • Events can now be filtered by tags (0.15.5).
  • Activated events archive pages (0.15.10).
  • You can now set until what time events should fall on the previous days using the theater/helpers/time/next_day_start_time_offset filter (0.15.11).
  • You can now create event calendars with custom filters (0.15.16).
  • Added the ‘end_after’ filter to production lists.
  • You can now add extra filter controls to the events admin screen using the restrict_manage_productions and manage_productions_extra_tablenav filters (0.15.17).
  • Added the wpt/importer/get/value filter to alter the default behaviour of an importer (0.15.20).
  • The calendar widget now jumps to the active month if you show the widget on you events page (0.15.23).
  • The use of transients for event lists and calendar can now be switched off using the theater/transient/active filter (0.15.24). Thank you joost de keijzer!
  • Added a new {{tags}} placeholder for events (0.15.27). See the updated docs. Thank you Raymond van Melzen!
  • Internal changes to further improve performance of importers (0.15.27).
  • Added CSS classes to the event editor to make it easier for developer to customise (0.15.29). Thank you joost de keijzer!
  • Performance improvements when ordering events on websites with a lot of events (0.15.30).

• Bugfix

  • The translation setting for the header above events on the productions page was also being used in other places (eg. the admin menu) (0.15.2). Thank you Bob Morris!
  • Seasons are now hidden from search results (0.15.3).
  • The post slug was not working for events when using bulk edit in the events admin screen (0.15.5).
  • Updates for extension plugins were not working anymore (0.15.6).
  • Events where not always showing the correct end date.
  • Search results no longer get lost when navigating on the Events page in the WordPress admin (0.15.9).
  • Fixed an issue with the ‘end’ filter for events (0.15.10).
  • Fixed the sort order of events on the admin screen after you changed the status of an event (0.15.13). Thank you Menno Luitjes!
  • Fixed a problem with the changelog of extensions if you’re running multiple extensions (0.15.14).
  • Fixed a problem with the event editor in WordPress 4.7 (0.15.15).
  • Fixed the day-filter in event lists (0.15.16).
  • Fixed an encoding problem in the upcoming event feeds (0.15.16).
  • Fixed a sorting issue on archive/search pages with mixed post types (0.15.16).
  • Fixed a timezone problem when using something like starttime|date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’) inside a shortcode (0.15.18).
  • Fixed performance issues with some websites that use full page caching plugins and services (0.15.22).
  • Fixed several performance issues of during imports (0.15.24).
  • Fixed a conflict with WP-CLI. (0.15.24).
  • Fixed an issue with the fallback of custom field values of events. Thank you joost de keijzer!
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes events are shown in the wrong order (0.15.30).
  • Fixed another issue where sometimes events are shown in the wrong order (0.15.31).
  • Fixed an issue with the keyword filter for events (0.15.32).
  • Fixed an issue with event lists on a page with a parent page (0.15.33).
  • Fixed an issue with the tickets iframe when the tickets page is a page with a parent page (0.15.33).
  • Fixed an issue where events are gone after you deactivate en reactivate the plugin.

• Deprecations

  • Deprecated the custom CSS settings in favour of the custom CSS setting that came with WordPress 4.7 (0.15.16).

0.14

Release Date: February 2nd, 2016

• Enhancements

  • The plugin is now ready for language packs hosted on WordPress.org. This makes it much easier for you to contribute a translation of the plugin in your native language. Add you translation here.
  • The [wpt_events] shortcode now accepts a production parameter to limit the a events list to one or more productions (0.14.4). See the updated documentation for examples.

• Bugfixes

  • Fixed some layout glitches on the Theater extensions page (0.14.1).
  • Listings were not working correctly if you combined the start and post__not_in params (0.14.2).
  • Event imports didn’t always clean up properly (0.14.2).
  • Fixed a problem when saving a production with multiple events (0.14.3). Thank you tomaszkoziara!
  • Fixed several PHP warnings when no listing page is set in the Theater settings (0.14.3).

0.13

Release Date: September 3rd, 2015

• Enhancements
  • Production listings can now be filtered by start and end dates. See the updated documentation.
  • Production listings can now be grouped and paginated by day, month or year.
  • Stripped all unnecessary elements off the event edit screen.
  • Made it possible to alter the behaviour of the tickets lightbox with a filter.
  • You can now browse extensions inside the WordPress admin.

See the release post for examples.

• Bugfixes

  • Fixed a problem in production listings with events that start before 1-1-1970.
  • Visibility of ticket buttons didn’t account for timezones.
  • Pagination for listings wasn’t working when the listing page was the same as the front page.
  • Weekdays were showing up as question marks when using a multibyte language (eg. Russian).

• Requirements

  • The plugin is no longer tested on WordPress versions prior to 4.0 (0.13.3).

0.12

Release Date: July 3rd, 2015

• Enhancements

  • You can adjust the slug for production detail pages in the permalink settings. Your URLs can now look like http://example.com/show/billy-elliot or http://example.com/concert/kurt-vile.
  • New template placeholders for events: {{starttime}}, {{startdate}}, {{endtime}} and {{enddate}}. Thanks jbrandligt!
  • You can choose the size for your thumbnail placeholder: {{thumbnail(‘large’)}}.
  • The URLs for your ticket pages look nicer, if you use the iframe option: http://example.com/tickets/billy-elliot/123.
  • Added new filters to manipulate the output of the Theater Production widget and the Theater Events widget.
  • Updated the German translation. Thanks henk23!
  • Added error messages to the import status. Thanks Menno!
  • Made it easier for extensions to add functionality to the event editor (0.12.4).

• Clean up

  • Productions no longer have an archive page on http://example.com/productions/.
  • Removed the Theater dashboard widget since it was kind off useless and slowing the admin interface down.

• Bugfixes

  • Some past events were showing a false tickets status.
  • It was impossible to clear a value for an event field.
  • Events were polluting the ‘link to existing content’ section on the ‘Insert/edit link’ dialog (0.12.3).
  • Fixed a timezone problem with the {{datetime}} template tag (0.12.6).
  • Fixed a lightbox problem with themes that don’t properly support screen-reader texts (0.12.6).
  • Fixed a problem with invalid event end dates (0.12.7).
  • The tickets status was not being saved when creating a new event (0.12.7).

0.11

Release Date: May 30th, 2015

• Enhancements
  • A brand new event editor. See the release notes for all the info.
  • Support for post__in and post__not_in in the [wpt_events] shortcode. See the documentation for examples. Thanks jbrandligt!
  • Support for custom filters in event listings. See this post for an example.