Add a concert

A concert is one card in the Concerts section of your home page, and one line on your Tickets page. Add one for each concert of the season. Any admin can do this.

Concerts is in the admin panel when Concerts section and ticket links is on in Site Settings → Features.

Add the concert

1. In the admin panel, open Concerts.
2. Press New Concert at the top right. The New Concert form opens above the list.
3. Fill in the form. Only Title is required; the table below says what each box is for.
4. Press Create Concert.

The concert is added at the bottom of the list and appears on your site straight away, unless you ticked Hidden from the public site. To move it up, see Reorder, hide, sell out, edit or delete a concert.

The New Concert form filled in with a sample concert and a preview of its poster

What each box is for

Box	What to put in it	What visitors see
Title (required)	The concert's name. 200 characters at most.	The heading of the card, and its name on the Tickets page
Season	A few words such as "2026/2027 Season".	Small capitals in the coloured band at the top of the card
Date	The date, written out. See How to write the date.	Shown exactly as you typed it
Time	For example "7:30 PM".	Shown exactly as you typed it
Venue	The hall or church.	On the card as "Venue - Location"; the venue is also shown on the Tickets page
Location	The town or the address.	On the card, after the venue
Ticket link	The web address where tickets are sold, starting with https://.	Not shown as text. The concert's line on the Tickets page opens it.
Poster	Upload an image, or paste the address of one.	The poster, full width, in the card
General price, Student price	Numbers only, such as 25 or 12.50. Leave at 0 for none.	"From" and the lowest price on the card; each price on the Tickets page
Senior price	Only there when Show a separate senior price is on in Site Settings → Home: Concerts.	As above
Icon (an emoji)	One emoji, such as 🎄.	Large, in the coloured band at the top of the card
Description	A sentence or two. Press Enter for a new line; line breaks are kept. No other formatting.	Under the title
Sold out	See the warning below.
Hidden from the public site	Tick it to prepare a concert without publishing it.	Nothing: a hidden concert is not on the site at all

Posters, prices and the ticket link have a page of their own: Posters, prices and ticket links.

Ticking "Sold out" in a new concert does nothing

The Sold out tick is not saved when you press Create Concert. Create the concert first, then press Mark as sold out on its card in the list. The tick box does work when you Edit a concert that already exists.

How to write the date

The date is ordinary text and is shown to visitors exactly as you type it. Your site also tries to read it, so that it can mark the concert as over once the day has passed. It can only do that if the date is written in a way a web browser understands.

Write the day, the month as a word and the year, in English:

Write it like this	Result
Saturday 5 December 2026	Read correctly
5 December 2026	Read correctly
December 5, 2026	Read correctly
Sat 5 Dec 2026	Read correctly

Put the time in the Time box, not here.

These forms go wrong:

What you typed	What happens
December 5 or Saturday 5 December (no year)	Read as a date in 2001, so the concert is marked as over at once
December 5-6, 2026 or December 5 & 6, 2026	Read as a date in 2007, so the concert is marked as over at once
Spring 2027 or May 2027	Read as 1 January 2027 or 1 May 2027, so the concert is marked as over from the next day
05/12/2026	Read the American way, as 12 May 2026
2026-12-05	Marked as over on the day of the concert itself for visitors in North and South America
5th December 2026, 5 and 6 December 2026, Samedi 5 décembre 2026, To be announced	Cannot be read. It is shown as typed and the concert is never marked as over.

For a concert on two days, write the last day in full and put the other in brackets after it: Sunday 6 December 2026 (also Saturday 5 December). The site reads the first date and ignores the brackets, so the concert stays current until both days are over.

A concert counts as over from the day after its date. On the day itself it is still current.

note

The date is read by each visitor's own web browser, and browsers differ a little. The forms above were checked in Chrome and Edge. If a date behaves oddly for some visitors, change it to 5 December 2026 or December 5, 2026, which every common browser reads.

What visitors see once the date has passed is described in When a concert is over, and starting a new season.

How the concert looks on your home page

Each concert is a card. From the top:

1. A coloured band with the icon and the season.
2. The poster, if there is one.
3. The title and the description.
4. The date, the time, and the venue and location.
5. "From" and the lowest price, and a Get Tickets button that opens your Tickets page. This part is there only when Tickets page is on in Site Settings → Features, and the concert is neither sold out nor over.

A concert card on the public home page with its poster, details, lowest price and the Get Tickets button

One concert is shown on its own in the middle of the page, two side by side, three or more in rows of three. On a phone they are one under another.

With no concerts to show, the section reads "Details of the next concerts are coming soon."

The heading and introduction above the cards, and the note under them, are in The concerts section of your home page.

If something goes wrong

These messages appear in red at the top of the form.

Message	What to do
A title is required	Fill in Title.
The title is too long	Shorten it to 200 characters or fewer.
The ticket address is not valid	Start the Ticket link with https://. An address beginning www. is refused.
The poster address is not valid	Upload the poster instead, or paste an address that starts with https://.
Only JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP or SVG images are allowed	The poster is another kind of file, such as a PDF or a photo straight from an iPhone (HEIC). Save it as a JPEG or PNG and upload that.
File too large. Maximum size is 10MB.	Make the image smaller. See Upload a picture into a setting. The number may differ on your site.
Upload failed, Could not save the concert or Error creating concert	Try again in a moment. If it keeps happening on a site you run yourself, look at the server's log.