Everything on officina.productions is yours to change. This is how — starting with the thing you will do most often, which takes about thirty seconds.
Go to admin.officina.productions and sign in with your email address and password. Forgotten it? Use Forgot password? and a reset link arrives by email.
You will land on a list of Productions, Performances, Companies and Pages. Those four are the whole site.
A show and a date are two different things. The show — title, poster, text — is written once. Each date is just a line pointing at it. So adding the twentieth date of a tour is as quick as the first, and you never retype the show or translate anything.
| Production | The show being performed. Everything else about it comes from here. |
|---|---|
| Starts at | Date and curtain time, in local Swiss time. |
| Venue & City | For example Dampfzentrale Bern, Bern. |
| Ticket URL | Where to book. Leave it empty and no ticket button appears. |
| Status | Set to Sold out or Cancelled and the agenda says so. |
| Note | Optional line under the date — “with post-show talk”. |
The date appears on the site within a minute, in all four languages, and in the calendar feed people subscribe to.
Open Productions and choose Create New. Write it in German first — that is what visitors see if a translation is missing — then add the other languages as described in step 05.
| Title | The name of the piece. |
|---|---|
| Lead | One or two sentences. This is what shows on the cards, in search results, and in the preview when someone shares the show on WhatsApp or Instagram. Worth writing well. |
| Company | Which of your companies made it. |
| Section | Where it appears — see step 06. |
| Synopsis & Credits | The full text, under the Content tab. |
| Poster & Gallery | Under the Media tab — see step 04. |
| Booking | For theatres: whether you are seeking coproducers, when it is available, and a press kit to download. |
Nothing is public until you choose Publish changes. Save Draft keeps your work private while you finish it.
Open the Media tab of a production, choose the poster field and upload the image. Write a short Alt text describing what the picture shows — that is what people using a screen reader hear, and what search engines read.
The site makes its own small versions from what you give it, but it never enlarges a picture. Upload posters at least 1600 pixels wide. A small image will look soft on a large screen and cannot be fixed afterwards without re-uploading.
Top right of every editing screen there is a Locale menu: Deutsch, Français, Italiano, English. Switch it and the text fields show that language. Edit, then Publish changes again.
Dates, venues and images are shared across all four — you only ever translate words.
In the right-hand column, four badges — DE FR IT EN — show which languages this piece actually has. A crossed-out badge means something is still missing there, and visitors are being shown the German text instead. Nothing is broken; it is just a reminder.
The Productions page has three parts, and one dropdown decides which one a piece is in. Change Section and it moves itself — you never rearrange the page.
| Next Seasons | Not yet playing: in creation, or already booked for a future season. This is the page you send to theatres. |
|---|---|
| This Season | What is playing now. |
| Past Seasons | Finished. Grouped by season automatically from the dates you entered — you do not set the season yourself. |
So when a premiere passes, the only thing to do is move it from Next Seasons to This Season.
Set Visibility to Unlisted and publish. The production gets a real, working page you can send by email — but it appears nowhere on the site and not in Google.
When you are ready to announce it, switch Visibility back to Listed. The link you already sent keeps working.
The layout, the colours, the typefaces, the menu and the opening animation live in the code, not in here. Nothing you type can damage them.
If something looks wrong on the site, it is a question for whoever maintains the code — not something you need to fix by editing around it.
officina.productions — the public site reads from this admin, so what you publish here is what visitors see, in German, French, Italian and English.