Movies

Overview

Movies is one of the main content types of Dbmovies. Every film on your website is a movie: a single record that holds the title, the poster, the description, the cast, the images, and the rating information of that film.

You can create movies in two ways:

• Automatically, by importing them from The Movie Database (TMDb). This is the recommended and fastest way, and it fills in most of the information for you.
• Manually, by creating a new movie and completing its fields by hand.

You will find Movies in the main menu of your WordPress admin panel, with its own video icon. From there you can see the full list of your movies, add new ones, and edit or delete the existing ones, exactly as you would with regular posts.

Permalink for Movies

Every movie has its own web address (permalink). Dbmovies lets you decide the word that appears in that address for all your movies.

This option is located inside the standard WordPress permalinks screen, so it lives together with the rest of your site addresses:

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: Movies.
4. Type the word you want to use for your movies. The default value is movies.
5. Click Save Changes.

With the default value, the address of a film looks like this:

https://your-website.com/movies/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker

If you change the field to something else, for example films, the same movie would be available at:

https://your-website.com/films/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker

You can use the word that best fits your website or your language. If you leave the field empty, Dbmovies uses the default value. Remember that this only changes the movies address; each film keeps its own name in the final part of the URL.

What Movies supports

This content type is prepared to describe a film completely. When you edit a movie, you have the standard WordPress options plus a dedicated Metadata panel provided by Dbmovies.

Standard WordPress options

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

Classification: genres, years, countries, and persons

Movies can be organized with several classifications that group and connect your content. These same classifications are shared with TV Shows, so a genre or a person is consistent across your whole catalog:

• Genres: the genres of the film, such as action, drama, or comedy.
• Releases: the release year of the film.
• Countries: the countries related to the film.
• Persons: the people involved in the film, used for directors and cast.
• Tags: the standard WordPress tags, if you want an extra level of labeling.

Each of these classifications also has its own permalink option in the same Settings > Permalinks screen, under the Dbmovies: Taxonomies section.

The Metadata panel

Below the editor, Dbmovies adds a Metadata panel organized in tabs, where you complete all the details of the film:

• Main data: original title, tagline, poster path, release date, and runtime in minutes.
• Identifiers: the TMDb ID, the IMDb ID, and the YouTube ID of the trailer. These identifiers connect the film with the external databases and allow Dbmovies to keep its information updated.
• External Metric: the age rating of the film using the MPAA system (for example G, PG, PG-13, R, or NC-17), together with the rating and number of votes from both TMDb and IMDb.
• Persons: the list of directors and the cast of the film. For each cast member you can also indicate the character they played. The people you add here come from the Persons classification.
• Images: the main logo and the main backdrop of the film, plus additional galleries of logos and backdrops.

Keeping a movie updated

Because each film stores its TMDb and IMDb identifiers, its ratings and votes can be refreshed automatically over time using the Metaupdater, so you do not have to update these numbers by hand.

Summary

A movie in Dbmovies is a complete record of a film. It supports a poster, a description, comments, and an author like any WordPress content, and it adds rich film information: genres, year, countries, people, external ratings, images, and trailer. Its web address is fully configurable from the standard WordPress permalinks screen, and its data can stay up to date automatically thanks to its connection with TMDb and IMDb.