About this demo

About Velvet Hour

Velvet Hour is a fictional after-dark culture season in Vienna, built with Nex Directory (Events). Every venue, performer and event is invented; the streets and squares on the map are real.

• Cinematic listing template with a self-hosted video hero and a ticket strip
• Spotlight cards, carousel galleries and a dark map with a gold pin
• Sold-out and waitlist states driven by real capacity data
• A home page made from WordPress blocks and the plugin’s free shortcodes: bento grid, query grid, live search and calendar
• Dark canvas via a short block of WordPress Additional CSS (the plugin has no dark-mode setting yet)
• Coming with Nex Directory Pro: ticket tiers (Parterre, Balcony, Standing), featured listings, an AI concierge and reminder emails

Photography: Unsplash and Pexels contributors, graded for this demo. The listing dates move forward each week so the season is always about to begin.