Episodes

Overview

An episode is a single chapter of a series. Each episode is its own content on your website, with its own page, its own title, and its own details, but it always belongs to a series and to a specific season.

Episodes are the third level of the series structure:

• The series is the parent record.
• The seasons are stored inside the series.
• The episodes are individual content, linked to the series.

You will find Episodes inside the TV Shows menu of your WordPress admin panel. They are not a separate top-level menu: because episodes always depend on a series, Dbmovies places the Episodes list under TV Shows, right next to your series.

How an episode connects to its series

Every episode is connected to its series through three pieces of information that you find in the Main data tab when you edit an episode:

• TV Show: the series the episode belongs to. You start typing the name of the series and select it from the list.
• Season Number: the season the episode belongs to.
• Episode Number: the position of the episode within that season.

With these three values, the episode knows which series it belongs to and where it sits inside it. This is what allows your website to show the episode in the right series and in the right order.

Permalink for Episodes

Every episode has its own web address (permalink), and Dbmovies lets you decide the word that appears in that address for all your episodes.

This option is located inside the standard WordPress permalinks screen:

1. Go to Settings > Permalinks in your WordPress admin panel.
2. Scroll down to the Dbmovies: Post Type section.
3. Find the field labeled Type: Episodes.
4. Type the word you want to use for your episodes. The default value is episodes.
5. Click Save Changes.

With the default value, the address of an episode looks like this:

https://your-website.com/episodes/ahsoka-season-1-episode-1

You can use the word that best fits your website or your language. If you leave the field empty, Dbmovies uses the default value.

What Episodes supports

When you edit an episode, you have the standard WordPress options plus a dedicated Metadata panel provided by Dbmovies.

Standard WordPress options

• Title: the title of the episode as it appears on your website.
• Editor: the main text area, used for the description of the episode.
• Featured image: the image of the episode.
• Comments: your visitors can comment on each episode, and you can enable or disable them.
• Author: the episode is associated with the user who published it.

The Metadata panel

Below the editor, Dbmovies adds a Metadata panel with two tabs:

• Main data: the connection to the series (TV Show, Season Number, Episode Number) and the details of the episode. Here you also set the TMDb ID, a quality badge, the episode name, the air date, and the runtime in minutes.
• Images: the main backdrop of the episode, plus an additional gallery of backdrops.

The quality badge

Each episode can display a quality badge, which you choose in the Main data tab. The available options are None, 4K, 2K, HD, SD, and CAM. We suggest always selecting the highest quality available for the episode. This badge is a quick visual indicator for your visitors.

Creating episodes the easy way

Adding every episode by hand would be slow, so Dbmovies is designed to generate episodes directly from the series, taking the data from The Movie Database (TMDb).

The idea is simple: you open the series, and from there you generate its episodes season by season. Dbmovies reads the seasons of the series, lets you pick a season, and creates its episodes for you, already connected to the series and correctly numbered.

When episodes are generated this way, Dbmovies takes care of everything:

• It links every new episode to the correct series.
• It assigns the season number and the episode number to each one.
• It builds the title and the web address of each episode from a consistent pattern, so all your episodes follow the same style across your website.
• It brings in the episode details, such as the name, the air date, the runtime, and the images.
• It avoids duplicates: if an episode already exists, Dbmovies updates it instead of creating a repeated one.

You can always edit any episode by hand afterwards if you need to adjust a title, a description, an image, or the quality badge.

Keeping episodes updated

Because each episode stores its identifiers, its information can be refreshed automatically over time using the Meta Updater, so details like the episode data stay in sync with the source without manual work.

Summary

An episode in Dbmovies is a single chapter of a series. It supports a title, a description, an image, comments, and an author like any WordPress content, and it adds episode information: the link to its series, its season and episode numbers, a quality badge, air date, runtime, and images. Its web address is configurable from the standard WordPress permalinks screen. The recommended way to create episodes is to generate them from the series, so they are linked and numbered automatically, and their data can stay up to date thanks to the connection with TMDb.