Jeroen Schmit

Yes. You can do this with the [wpt_events] shortcode.

For a yearly archive, I’d use a date range per year, for example:

[wpt_events start="2024-01" end="2025-01" order="desc"]

That will list the events from 2024, and order=”desc” will sort them newest first.

For the current year, you can use now as the end date so past events appear automatically as soon as they have taken place:

[wpt_events start="2026-01" end="now" order="desc"]

So the pattern would be:

• Past years: start=”YYYY-01″ end=”YYYY+1-01″ order=”desc”
• Current year: start=”YYYY-01″ end=”now” order=”desc”

That should cover both the historical archive and the running year without needing a different shortcode for each past event.

Is Regal a ticketing solution? Or is it the name of the franchise?

Hi Karsten,

You are right, this feature is absolutely missing right now.

My preferred way of handling this is through one of the many filters that are in place. For example: https://github.com/slimndap/wp-theatre/blob/master/functions/wpt_listing.php#L284

You can use is to inspect the value of $html and then return your fallback message if there are no events.

Untested code:

add_filter( 'wpt_listing_html', function( $html, $args ) {
  if ( !empty( $html ) ) {
    return $html;
  }

  return '<p>My fallback message</p>';

} );

Hi Roland,

Just to be sure: your new pages (so not events) are showing a 404 error?

Can you give me an example of a URL of a page that gives a 404 error.

Can you also give me an example of a URL of an event on the website?

Jeroen

Hi!

I’d be looking to have something similar to that website, where the user can choose their seat in a visual representation of the theatre.

Is this possible with your plugin? It’s the main thing my client wants.

No, it doesn’t. You need to use a 3rd party ticketing solution for this. Eg. Ticketmaster or Veezi. You can use the Jeero plugin to integrate the Theater for WordPress with most ticketing solutions. For a full list of supported ticketing solutions see: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/jeero/

Hi!

So you would like the title to link directly to the tickets page, and not to the event detail page on your website?

In this case I would use Jeero to create a new custom field during the import, eg. title_with_tickets_url.

The template for this field would be <p><a href="{{tickets_url}}">{{title}}</a></p>.

Then change the shortcode to this:

[wpt_productions limit="5"]{{title_with_tickets_url}}{{dates}}[/wpt_productions]

Jeroen

Iris,

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Jeroen