If you plan to launch a theatre website, a culture news blog, or a portal dedicated to developing acting or organizing theatre nights, check out the 7 popular WordPress theatre themes for 2020. In addition to the impeccably executed design, they have included many useful options that allow you to satisfy all potential requests of this micro niche. Each template has demo projects suitable for one or several of the themes: theatre, cinema, exhibition, opera, ballet, cultural event. Among them are landing pages, one-page, pages for event announcements, actors’ business cards, and even entertainment portals.
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7 Theatre WordPress Templates
1. Bard
The niche theme of the theatre and acting website with an amazing set of layouts and elements. Supported plugins: Visual Composer (comes with a template for free), WPML, WooCommerce, Tickera, Slider Revolution (comes as a gift). The demo projects on the template include several creative one-page users: an actor/actress business card, theater website, landing page for the event being organized.
Ready-made sites use mega menus with images, animation, delayed content output, original “grids” for galleries. The home page has 6 design options, the template pages “Error 404”, “Website under construction” are presented. The collection of shortcodes includes a list and a slider of roles/shows, individual pages of roles/shows, opening hours, and a price table.
2. OsTende
OsTende’s theatre WordPress theme is made on Elemetor and offers support for Essential Grid plugins (convenient for creating a portfolio), Booked Appointments, Events Calendar, Instagram Feed, Revolution Slider, Contact Form 7. The built-in ThemeREX Addons plugin will simplify the creation of custom content blocks, setting up social profiles, getting the API key. After installing it, the builder for the header and footer will become available.
The custom content type of the Handy Classes block from the creators of the theme will notify users about the time, place and cost of events organized – a workshop or acting courses. For OsTende, a special optimization of the mobile version was carried out (image retina, scrolling effects). Add commercial banners to the sidebar – 7 places for advertising widgets are allocated in the topic. The design uses parallax backgrounds, a sticky header and sidebar, an icon font Fontello, Google fonts and custom fonts, personalized google maps.
3. Theatre WP
Premium template WordPress category “Culture, Entertainment, Theater.” In addition to the best plug-in for the Schedule of events, Visual Composer and Slider Revolution are added to the theme – you save $ 82 on these plug-ins. The authors of the theme supplemented it with their own Xtender plugin, whose task is to improve the user experience with WordPress.
Mega menu of the site can have an unlimited number of levels, advanced customization of header and backgrounds, custom menu for footer are available. For site icons, Font Awesome and Themify fonts are taken. Theater WP is prepared for translation and work with Facebook Open Graph, it is configured for integration with social networks. All demo content comes with a theme – with customization you can leave high-quality source images on the site.
4. Theater
A one-of-a-kind WordPress theme for concerts, operas, theatres and cultural and entertainment events. Its exclusive option is the manager for posting profiles of actors, opera singers and artists. The Events Calendar functionality is designed to help you promote your theatre or event. For online sales of tickets for performances in the template provides the appropriate addon. The list of theatre blog publications can be arranged in three predefined styles. If the theatre architecture deserves to be demonstrated in the site’s gallery, or if you plan to add a portfolio to the site, the grid and masonry layout options are at your disposal, as well as many personalization options. The theme is configured to support several language versions of the site and is prepared for translation.
5. BigEvent
Responsive and retina-adapted Theatre WordPress template for various events: conferences, meetings, concerts, workshops, summits. BigEvent is more than 22 homepage variations, 4 ready-made one-page pages, RTL support. The template contains a whole package of tools for managing events and schedules, registering participants, making lists of speakers, selling tickets, and is equipped with a unique time counter before the event.
The BigEvent Premium Visual Composer Builder and Event Calendar Plugin are available for free. The schedule can use any of 10 built-in layouts, google maps can easily customize colors and pointers. Complement your site with an online store – the theme fully supports the WooCommerce plugin.
6. Cultera
WordPress template for a blog or portal dedicated to institutions and events of culture and art. The theme supports the premium plug-in Events Manager – manage events on the site and attract visitors with a laconic, informative schedule design. Drag-and-drop functionality is provided by the Elementor plugin. WooCommerce compatibility makes it possible to add a commercial section.
The theme blog accepts 5 content formats for publications: text, link, video, gallery, music. Separate templates have been prepared for archived journal entries, search results, page 404. Widgets and shortcodes of the theme: a similar publication, tabs with popular posts, an advertising banner (width 300px), Twitter, social networks. Also with the Clearfy plugin you can quickly make important SEO settings.
7. Classico
This theatrical WordPress theme works in conjunction with Cherry plugins and the drag-and-drop Power builder. It allows you to experiment with the structure of pages, sorting through numerous layout schemes. Having compiled the desired scheme, save it in the internal library of the template, and it will be constantly available for new pages.
Custom widgets significantly expand the basic functionality by adding sliders, post carousels, social settings, which positively affects the image of the site. TM Gallery helps you create beautiful, responsive photo galleries and display them in a variety of layouts. The template is focused on effective SEO promotion on Google. As a bonus, you get 15 high-quality pictures that your theatre can freely use on its web pages.
Have you already looked at a suitable demo? The good news: most of them are installed in one or two clicks. All that separates you from the dream site is the selection and purchase of a suitable WordPress template with the subsequent personalization of content.
Have questions about premium templates? I have prepared an article for you with answers to frequently asked questions on premium themes (purchase, customization, etc.). You can study the article here.
Which template do you like more? Write in the comments.
