What is Basker?
An introduction to Basker: what it is, who it is for, and what is covered in this documentation
Basker is a content platform for arts, culture, and live-events organizations. It pairs a flexible content management system with a dedicated event model and integrations with the major ticketing platforms. The productions, performances, casts, venues, and seasons your audience cares about live in one place, render through your custom theme, and connect cleanly to the systems you already use.
If you produce, present, or program live events (opera, theater, music, dance, festivals, comedy, exhibitions, museum programs), Basker is built for the structure of your work. Productions, performances, casts and creative teams, venues, seasons and series, sponsors and partners are all native concepts, not custom data you have to add separately.
This documentation is for the people who use Basker day-to-day:
- Site editors maintaining content across pages, events, blog posts, and media.
- Theme integrators working with a custom theme to render the live site.
- Site administrators managing users, permissions, integrations, and settings.
For developer-level documentation, use Themes for custom-theme development and Partners API for external integrations.
How to use these docs
The sidebar groups topics by area. The natural reading order is:
- Get started with Basker: orientation, quick-start, and plans.
- Core concepts: how Basker works, the content model, how to extend and customize.
- The remaining sections: task-oriented documentation for each part of the product.
Use the search at the top of the sidebar to jump straight to a topic, or browse the cards below for the most common starting points.