Public display and themes

Single pages #

The bases can be changed in Settings → Permalinks — before the site is public, because Hype5 adds no redirects from old addresses.

Collections #

Collections have a filter bar and pagination, and read their filters from the address (for example ?hype5_genre=drama), so a filtered list can be bookmarked. See Queries and URL parameters.

Using your own page for a collection #

To show a collection inside a page of your own — with your own introduction, for example:

1. Create a page that contains the matching shortcode, for example [hype5_schedule], and publish it.
2. Choose it as the collection page: Appearance → Lists and pages → Collection pages in the Hype5 app (classic menu: Appearance → Collections → Collection routes).

The built-in address then redirects (HTTP 302) to your page, keeping filter parameters. Choosing Built-in page again removes the choice. Individual production and person pages keep their addresses.

Placing content in pages and posts #

• Shortcodes place whole collections, a whole production or person, or single parts such as the cast, the schedule of one production or the gallery. They work in the Classic Editor, in a Shortcode block and in page builders that render shortcodes. In the Classic Editor of posts and pages, Insert Hype5 content next to Add Media inserts them for you. See Shortcodes.
• Blocks: Theater productions and Theater schedule, in the block editor's Widgets category. They render exactly like the matching shortcodes. See Blocks.

Examples:

[hype5_productions context="upcoming" layout="cards"]
[hype5_schedule range="month" group_by="none"]
[hype5_production_cast id="487" images="none"]

Every display option can be given as a shortcode attribute and wins over the production's own Display settings and the global Appearance. See Shortcodes → Display options.

Productions placed on other pages. A production shown with [hype5_production], the other production shortcodes or blocks, or [hype5_schedule production="…"] on a page other than its own shows its details only while it is public to everyone (Theater 0.7.0). A password-protected production shows its title and the password form there, also after the visitor has entered the password; the form opens the production's own page, where the password unlocks it. Such pages therefore never depend on a visitor's password and are safe for page caches. See Security and content visibility.

How it looks #

• The Appearance studio sets layouts, sections, colours and public texts for the whole site; productions and people can override them under Display.
• Style mode decides how much of Hype5's own design is applied: Hype5 (full Hype5 styling), Hybrid (inherits more of the theme's typography and colour) or Minimal (functional layout and focus styles only).
• Custom CSS in Appearance is added after the plugin's styles. Scope rules to .hype5 to leave the theme unchanged. See CSS and design tokens.

Themes #

Hype5 Theater works with classic and block themes. Its pages are rendered through the plugin's own templates inside your theme's header and footer.

• Clean single templates (Settings → Content): use the plugin's own single-page template for productions, people and venues instead of the theme's single-post layout. A theme can keep its own template; Hype5 Stage does.
• Template overrides: a theme can copy any public plugin template into a hype5-theater/ folder and change its markup. Templates receive prepared data only, so an override cannot bypass visibility rules. System Status reports each override as Current or Review recommended. See Template overrides.
• Hype5 Stage is a theme built for the plugin: it restyles production, person, venue and schedule pages and builds a home page from the schedule. See Hype5 Theater integration.

Theme authors: see Theme integration and Presentation services.