Import Stager (pushfeed) events to Theater for WordPress

Importing Stager (pushfeed) events 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 Stager (pushfeed). You will then import your events into the Theater for WordPress plugin. When finished, you will have a website that provides an always-updated overview of your events, including showtimes, full descriptions and images.

Prerequisites

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

  2. Sign up for a paid Stager (pushfeed) plan. Imports do not work during your Stager (pushfeed) trial period.

  3. Go to Settings → Integrations → Publication Channels in Stager (pushfeed) and create a publication channel for your website. You can also choose to use an existing publication channel, eg ‘Feed’.

  4. Go to Event → Publicity →Publication channels in Stager (pushfeed) and make sure that the proper channel is checked.

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 Stager (pushfeed) in the Ticketing solution field:

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  3. Click on Save Changes.

  4. Copy the URL that appeared directly below the ‘Ticketing Solution’ field.

  5. Select the ticket types that your would like to import.

  6. Click on Save Changes.

  7. Go to your Stager backoffice.

  8. Go to Settings → Integrations and click on the publication channel that you want to use for the import. Usually this is the ‘Feed’ publication channel.

  9. Paste the URL from that you copied earlier on into the Webhook URL field and click on the ‘Save’ button.

    A screenshot of the 'Integrations' page in the Staging backstage area. It shows that you need to paste the URL from one of the previous steps into the 'Webhook URL' input field.

  10. Scroll down to the ‘Testing’ section and click on Send all data. This will tell Jeero to import all your events to your website.

  11. Click on the Theater for WordPress tab.

  12. Tick the Enable Theater for WordPress import checkbox:

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  13. Click on Save Changes.

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

Step 4 – Show your events on your website

You can show your upcoming events 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 proper Stager (pushfeed) ticketing page:

Step 5 – Choose the right plan

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

Is your organisation hosting more events?

Paid plans begin at € 30 per month or € 300 per year and allow you to sync up to 1.000 upcoming events.

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Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to connect Theater for WordPress to Stager (pushfeed) and have all of your events automatically published on your WordPress website. Jeero handles the synchronization between the two and saves you from manually copy-pasting all of the event 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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