Using Events Calendar for an independent cinema (theater)

[Vic]

Is Events Calendar readily adaptable to use for an independent cinema? The current site was built around an ancient php calendar program and needs to be upgraded ASAP.
– Ticket sales not required
– Each film as a repeating event with image, description, trailer link
– Monthly calendar listing films shown each day, with pop-up description link
– A daily showtime display showing today’s films + 7 days ahead

I am thinking that building around an established and well-supported calendar is really the way to go, following the road of the original. Have tried and failed with full-on custom projects and the few theater plug-ins out there are ill-supported and not complete.

[Courtney]

Hi Vic

You can take a look at what our Events Calendar Pro and more can do on our demo site: http://wpshindig.com/events.

You can use the calendar to display events without tickets.
You can set events to be recurring. https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-recurring-events/ That would include the description, featured image, and you could put the event trailer link in the field “event website url”.
You can display the calendar in month view with the hover pop outs
I believe the “view as” toggle to week and day view could meed most of your needs for the 7 days ahead area. Week view might require users to navigate to the next week.

We do offer Calendar View Shortcodes and Widget Shortcodes with Events Calendar Pro. I’m researching further what would be required to create something that is truly the next 7 days vs week view.

Is there anything else I can help you with?

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[Courtney]

I did discover that we don’t have a good solution for the next 7 days. If you think that is something you would like as a feature I encourage you to visit our User Voice Page and either upvote an existing request or make a new request there.

You can suggest it it https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/13822656-shortcode-to-show-upcoming-x-days.

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[Vic]

Thanks Courtney – I like what I am seeing and I did post a comment on the link you sent regarding the 7-day listing panel. If there was a way to pay for this customization we will do that, in addition to a premium version of the calendar if it does all the rest…

thanks!

[Courtney]

Hi Vic

We do have a page of businesses that we recommend for advanced customization work: Find A Customizer

They may be able to further develop this for you.

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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