TVShows

Overview

A TV Show is the main record of a series. Unlike a movie, a series is not a single piece of content: it is the top of a structure that also includes its seasons and its episodes.

It is important to understand this from the start:

• The series is the parent record. It holds the general information: name, poster, description, cast, images, status, and the list of its seasons.
• The seasons are stored inside the series. They are not separate content; they live within the series record itself.
• The episodes are separate content, and each one is linked to its series.

You can create series in two ways:

• Automatically, by importing them from The Movie Database (TMDb). This fills in the general information and the list of seasons for you.
• Manually, by creating a new series and completing its fields by hand.

You will find TV Shows in the main menu of your WordPress admin panel, with its own icon. The Episodes list is available under the same TV Shows menu.

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

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

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

https://your-website.com/tvshows/ahsoka/

Episodes have their own permalink field in the same screen, labeled Type: Episodes, with the default value episodes. A typical episode address looks like this:

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

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

What TV Shows supports

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

Standard WordPress options

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

Classification: genres, years, countries, and persons

Series can be organized with the same classifications used by Movies, so your whole catalog stays consistent:

• Genres: the genres of the series, such as drama, comedy, or sci-fi.
• Releases: the release year of the series.
• Countries: the countries related to the series.
• Persons: the people involved in the series, used for creators 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:

• Main data: current status of the series, series name, original name, tagline, poster path, first air date, last air date, average episode runtime, number of seasons, and number of episodes.
• Identifiers: the TMDb ID, the IMDb ID, and the YouTube ID of the trailer. These connect the series with the external databases and allow Dbmovies to keep its information updated.
• External Metric: the age rating of the series using the TV Parental Guidelines system (for example TV-Y, TV-PG, TV-14, or TV-MA), together with the rating and number of votes from both TMDb and IMDb.
• Persons: the list of creators of the series and the series cast. 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 series, plus additional galleries of logos and backdrops.
• Seasons: the list of all the seasons of the series. This is explained in detail in the next section.

Series status

A series can be in one of several states, which you set in the Main data tab: Returning Series, Planned, In Production, Ended, Canceled, Pilot, or Unknown status. This lets your website show, for example, whether a series is still on the air or has already finished.

How seasons and episodes work together

This is what makes TV Shows different from Movies. A series is organized in three levels: the series, its seasons, and its episodes. Here is how each level is handled.

Seasons are inserted directly into the series

The seasons are part of the series record. In the Seasons tab of the series, you have a list where you can add one season after another with the New season button. For each season you can define:

• Season name.
• Poster (an uploaded image or an image URL).
• Overview: a short summary of the season.
• Season number: important, because it is used to order the seasons.
• Episodes count: the number of episodes in that season.
• Air date: the start date of the season.

When you import a series from TMDb, this list of seasons is completed automatically. Because the seasons live inside the series, you manage them from the series itself, not as separate content.

Episodes are linked to the series

Episodes are individual content, and each episode belongs to a series. When you create or edit an episode, its Main data tab includes a field called TV Show. This is where you select which series the episode belongs to: you start typing the name of the series and choose it from the list.

Together with that link, each episode declares its position in the series with two fields:

• Season Number: the season the episode belongs to.
• Episode Number: the number of the episode within that season.

With these three pieces of information (the series it belongs to, the season, and the episode number), the episode is correctly connected and ordered inside its series. An episode also supports its own details: a quality badge (such as 4K, HD, or SD), its own name, air date, runtime, and images.

The automatic flow

When you import episodes, Dbmovies takes care of the whole connection for you:

• It identifies the series the episodes belong to and links every new episode to it.
• It assigns the season number and the episode number to each episode.
• It builds the title and the address of each episode from a consistent pattern, so all your episodes follow the same naming style.
• It avoids duplicates: if an episode already exists, Dbmovies updates it instead of creating a repeated one.

This means that, in practice, you import the series (which brings in the seasons), and then import its episodes (which are linked automatically). Manual editing is always available if you need to adjust anything.

Summary

A TV Show in Dbmovies is the parent record of a series. It supports a poster, a description, comments, and an author like any WordPress content, and it adds rich series information: genres, year, countries, people, external ratings, images, trailer, and status. Its seasons are stored directly inside the series, while its episodes are separate content linked to the series by the TV Show field and ordered by their season and episode numbers. 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.