Import PatronBase performances to Theater for WordPress

Importing PatronBase performances into Theater for WordPress is a breeze with Jeero. Instead of manually copying and pasting information, your website will always have up-to-date information, including dates, prices, and ticketing.

This tutorial will show you how to connect your WordPress website to PatronBase. You will then import your performances into the Theater for WordPress plugin. When finished, you will have a website that provides an always-updated overview of your performances, including full descriptions, featured images and prices.

Prerequisites

  1. Check that your WordPress website is up and running.

  2. Create an API Key using the PatronBase API → API Settings menu option in your PatronBase account. You can use the following settings:

  3. After clicking on Add User you see the screen with your API Key on it.

  4. Derive your PatronBase skin ID from the URL of your PatronBase website.

    If https://us.patronbase.com/_mytheatre/Productions is the URL of your PatronBase website, then ‘_mytheatre’ is your skin ID.

Step 1 – Install Theater for WordPress

  1. Go to Plugins → Add new in the WordPress admin.
  2. Look for ‘theater for wordpress’.
  3. Install and activate Theater for WordPress plugin.

You now have a new Theater menu-item in the WordPress admin:

Step 2 – Install Jeero

  1. Go to Plugins → Add new in the WordPress admin.
  2. Look for ‘jeero’.
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  3. Install and activate the Jeero plugin.

Step 3 – Start the sync

  1. Go to Jeero in the WordPress admin.

  2. Select PatronBase in the Ticketing solution field:

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  3. Click on Save Changes.

  4. Enter your PatronBase API Key and skin ID:

  5. Click on Save Changes.

  6. Click on the Theater for WordPress tab.

  7. Tick the Enable Theater for WordPress import checkbox:

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  8. Click on Save Changes.

The sync is now active. Your performances will be visible in Theater for WordPress within 5 minutes:

Step 4 – Show your events on your website

You can show your upcoming performances on a page.

  1. Go to Pages → Add new.
  2. Give your page a title (eg. ‘Upcoming events’).
  3. Click on Publish.
  4. Go to Theater → Settings → Display.
  5. Set Page to show upcoming events on to the page that you just created.
  6. Set Position on page to show above content.
  7. Click on Save Changes.
  8. Go to Theater → Settings → Style.
  9. Check Enable built-in Theater stylesheet.
  10. Click on Save Changes.

The page that you created now shows your upcoming events:

A list of upcoming events, generated by the Theater for WordPress plugin

Clicking on the tickets link automatically leads visitors to the corresponding PatronBase ticketing page:

Step 5 – Choose the right plan

Jeero's free plan allows you to sync up to ten upcoming performances at any given time. Ideal for small organisations and testing purposes.

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Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to connect Theater for WordPress to PatronBase and have all of your performances automatically published on your WordPress website. Jeero handles the synchronization between the two and saves you from manually copy-pasting all of the performance details after each update.

I hope you found this guide useful. If you require any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me . I'm also curious if there are any ticketing or calendar plugins that I should include.

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