Bard - A Theatre and Performing Arts Theme 1.5

Get standing ovations for your website! All you need to do is create your site using Bard, a theme honed for easy creation of all theatre and performing arts dedicated websites. You do not have to know a single line of code in order to create a truly professional theatre and performing arts website. Import the full demo content with 1 click, and then simply drag-and-drop the elements to create your pages the way you wish! You also get layouts for presenting your dance troupe, your theatre repertoire, your plays, and more. In one word, with Bard you get all a theatre and performing arts website can wish for!

Bard Features

• Highly Customizable
• Extensive Admin Interface
• Simple One-Click Import of Demo Content
• No coding knowledge required
• Big custom shortcode collection
• Responsive & Retina Ready
• 6 homepage examples
• Large collection of useful inner pages
• Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin included ($26 value)
• WPBakery Page Builder Plugin for WordPress included ($46 value)
• Tickera – WordPress Event Ticketing plugin compatible
• Role List shortcode
• Role Single shortcode
• Role Slider shortcode
• Interactive Link Showcase shortcode
• Full Show Grid shortcode
• Show List shortcode
• Show Slider shortcode
• Show Slider shortcode
• Working Hours shortcode
• Pricing table shortcode
• Parallax sections
• Mega Menu
• Customizable Google Maps
• Smooth Page Transitions
• Choose between 7 amazing font icon sets
• Twitter and Instagram social widgets
• Image Gallery widget
• Social Icons Group widget
• Social Icons widget
• Working Hours widget
• Twitter List shortcode
• Animation Holder shortcode
• Clients Carousel shortcode
• Video Button shortcode
• Pricing table shortcode
• Visual Effects Holder shortcode
• Progress Bar shortcode
• Various infographic shortcodes
• Anchor link functionality for one page sites
• Video Background Sections
• Background images in sections
• Side Area
• Standard Header Type
• Minimal Header Type
• Multiple header behaviors
• Separate logo variants for dark and light header skin
• Separate logo for mobile header
• Header Top area
• Style mobile header separately
• Highly customizable title area
• Custom Sidebars
• Mikado Search functionality
• Customizable Footer Layout – up to 4 columns
• Separate Footer Bottom area
• Choose your grid size
• Powerful typography options
• 800+ Google Fonts
• Show Single layout
• Role Single layout
• Blog Standard Layout
• Blog List shortcode
• Custom Post Formats for Standard, Gallery, Link, Quote, Video, and Audio blog posts
• Optional social share functionality
• Testimonials shortcode
• Smooth Scroll
• Boxed layout option
• Back to Top button functionality
• Child Theme Included
• Translation ready
• WooCommerce compatible
• WPML Plugin compatible
• Dropdown Shop Cart widget
• Contact Form 7 compatible

You can access the online documentation file by clicking here

We do not own the copyright for the images featured in this theme. The images in question are only used for presentational purposes on our demos. These images cannot be used on your website, unless you purchase the license from a stock image website yourself.

Change Log

Version 1.6 – March 10th, 2025

- Added PHP 8.2 compatibility
- Added WordPress 6.7 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 9.7 compatibility
- Added support for Filter By Price block
- Added support for core/search block
- Added bard_core_get_countdown_years_range helper function
- Added Disable Google Fonts option and functionality
- Added Social Share Icons Type global option
- Updated Bard Core plugin to 1.2.3
- Updated Bard Shows plugin to 1.1.3
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 8.2
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.29
- Updated font awesome to 6.5.2
- Fixed WooCommerce outdated templates
- Fixed WooCommerce Login form show password button
- Fixed WooCommerce 7.8.0 issue with 'figure'
- Fixed Social Share Shorcode Icons Type option
- Fixed Show date translation
- Fixed custom widget areas delete functionality
- Fixed the issue of all show items displaying on show category pages
- Fixed fatal error when Bard Shows plugin is active, but Bard Core isn't
- Fixed php Deprecated warnings: Creation of dynamic property
- Fixed php fatal error with is_array check conditions
- Fixed google.maps.Marker is deprecated warning
- Fixed Google Maps API async loading issues
- Fixed Countdown years range
- Fixed Bard Welcome Page
- Removed Bard Twitter Feed due to Twitter API changes
- Removed Share on Google Plus option (service doesn't exist)
- Removed Google Plus custom user option (service doesn't exist)
- Removed Image Size option in Mikado Blog List Shortcode (Not applicable)
- Included Custom Twitter Feeds plugin from WordPress repository
- Improved getSocialNetworkShareLink method
- Improved import to create dynamic files after import is completed
- Improved bard_mikado_get_attachment_id_from_url function
- Change Tickera plugin source to WordPress repository
- Change font awesome twitter social share icon to twitter x icon
- Prevent Mikado Woocommerce Dropdown Cart from loading on cart page

Version 1.5 – November 2nd, 2021

- Added WordPress 5.8.1 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 5.8.0 compatibility
- Added PHP8 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.7.0
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.5.9
- Updated Bard Instagram Feed plugin to 2.1
- Updated Bard Twitter Feed plugin to 1.3
- Updated Bard Core plugin to 1.2.2
- Updated Bard Shows plugin to 1.1.2
- Included Tickera plugin in theme

Version 1.4 – October 30th, 2020

- Added WordPress 5.5 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 4.6.1 compatibility
- Updated Bard Instagram Feed plugin to 2.0
- Updated Bard Core plugin to 1.2.1
- Updated Bard Shows plugin to 1.1.1
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.4.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.2.23

Version 1.3 – February 28th, 2020

- Added compatibility with WooCommerce 3.9.2
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.2
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.2.1
- Updated Bard Shows plugin to 1.1.0
- Updated Bard Instagram Feed plugin to 1.2
- Updated Bard Twitter Feed plugin to 1.2
- Fixed FullScreen menu scroll
- Fixed (not)showing expired events
- Fixed og description rendering for pages
- Improved event list shortcode
- Removed unused file instagram-redirect.php from Bard Instagram Widget plugin
- Removed unused file twitter-redirect.php from Bard Twitter Feed plugin

Version 1.2.3 – April 22nd, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.6.1 compatibility
- Improved import functionality
- Improved theme security

Version 1.2.2 – March 15th, 2019

- Updated Instagram Feed to 1.1
- Updated Twitter Feed to 1.1
- Improved theme functions
- Improved themes files

Version 1.2.1 – March 14th, 2019

- Improved framework files

Version 1.2 – March 7th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.5.5 compatibility
- Updated Bard Core plugin to 1.1
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.7
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.8.3
- Updated pot file
- Improved framework files

Version 1.1 – November 29th, 2018

- Added compatibility with WooCommerce 3.5.1
- Added compatibility with Gutenberg plugin
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 5.5.5
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.8
- Updated Bard Shows plugin to 1.0.1
- Fixed problem with dates on events
- Fixed title area issue on Safari
- Improved displaying content on secured protocol