Piazza in Festa

Piazza in Festa collects the events of Italian towns from the notices that town halls and other public bodies are required to publish (the albo pretorio), and turns them into a readable calendar. This plugin puts that calendar on your site. You pick the towns you care about, or a whole region. The list updates by itself every day: nobody on your side has to type events in, and nothing is copied into your database. What you get

• A block called Piazza in Festa, with a live preview while you edit.
• A shortcode, [piazza-in-festa comuni="alba,barolo,la-morra" limite="5"], for classic editor, widgets and page builders.
• Filters by town, region and category, from village feasts to concerts, markets, exhibitions and sport.
• Light and dark theme, your own accent colour, your own heading.
• Nothing to maintain: no cron job, no cache to purge, no import.

Where the events come from Every event is reconstructed from a public document: an ordinance closing a street for the procession, a resolution granting patronage to the fair, an authorisation for the concert. Small towns included, the ones no manual calendar ever reaches. Titles and descriptions are written by AI systems reading those documents, so they can contain mistakes; each event links back to the town page where the original source is shown. Free, and what is not The plugin is free and complete: every option described here works, with or without an account. The widget shows a small credit line at the bottom pointing back to Piazza in Festa. Site owners who prefer it without that line can ask the service for a key and paste it in the settings; that is an option of the service, not a feature locked inside this plugin.

1. Install and activate the plugin.
2. Edit a page and add the block named Piazza in Festa, or write the shortcode [piazza-in-festa comuni="alba,barolo"].
3. In the block settings, type the identifiers of the towns you follow, separated by commas.

The identifier of a town is the one you see in the address of its page on piazzainfesta.it: for La Morra it is la-morra. If you are not sure, build the widget at piazzainfesta.it/widget and copy the values.

1.0.1

• Directory tags in Italian (eventi, sagre, comuni, pro loco, turismo), so that towns and Pro Loco can find the plugin. No code changes.

1.0.0

• First release: block, shortcode, filters by town, region and category, light and dark theme, accent colour, automatic height.