What does Lumière Movies do?
Lumière Movies WordPress plugin helps you integrate loads of information about movies and starts. Widgets, links to informative popup, dedicated taxonomy pages, are available. You even can include movie’s information into your posts ! Everything is automatised: although the plugin works flawlessly without any need to change the settings, your can change the themes, add taxonomy to your pages. Directors, pictures, all the information is retrieved from the famous IMDb website. It ensures that you have the most accurate and reliable information always available on your blog.
Many features are available in the wordpress editing interfaces (Gutenberg, Visual editor, widget, and HTML editor).
Lumière! is a great tool to illustrate your articles. It is an amazingly versatile plugin: users can display movie details through many ways: popups, widget, and straight inside the article. Finally, it can be extensively fine-tuned in the admin panel.
There are three basic ways to use it:
1. Make a clickable link to a popup:
2. Insert into a widget your movie (see the sidebar on the right-hand)
3. Integrate a movie directly inside your post:
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Anachronisms When Barry and Bullingdon fight, there is a map of the world in the background, with a decorative picture of a steam train on it. The film is set in the 1700s, but the steam train was not invented until the 1820s.
Anachronisms The glasses of the older robber are 20th-century. There were no nose-padded glasses in the early 18th century.
In addition, you can use WordPress taxonomies to automatically group all your posts tagged by directors, genre, etc.
Lumière is a great tool to inform yourself and to provide many trivias on your post! It is very versatile and multi-functional. Users can display data in many ways fine-tune data with admin options and css.
Development
The plugin is hosted on github. Feel free to fork, participate in the development, ask your questions there.
Download
basic options
There are three ways to use Lumière! plugin: the popup link make, using a widget and putting movie details inside a blog post. Each option can be combined with any other; there is no limitation!
1. When writing your post, add embbed your nameMovie with <span class=”lumiere_link_maker”>nameMovie</span> tags, or much easier, just use the Lumière’s option in your prefered visual editor. A link that will open a popup will be added to your nameMovie. The popup contains much data related to the movie, and can extensively browsed.
2. A Widget can be activated, and used in a way where informations will be displayed inside it. Once widget is activated, look closely to select what you want to display on your sidebar: options are available on Lumiere Movies admin settings tab. Check faqs.
3. The plugin can show IMDb data inside a post. When writing your post, put the movie name inside tags using the editor interface.
Fine tuning:
1. If you’re familiar with CSS editing, you may edit the section tagged “/* —- imdbincluded */” in css/lumiere.css file to customize the layout according to your taste. You can copy the lumiere.css file into your current template folder so your modification will make it in spite of Lumière!’s updates.
2. A (front) page can be created to include all you movies’ related messages. Have a look there : personal movie reviews’ page.
Advanced:
1. If you do not want to show any link to open the popup windows (in the case you are only looking for information displayed in widget and inside posts), search for the option located in “General options -> Misc -> Remove popup links?” and select “yes”. Links opening a popup (both in widget and posts) will not be be available anymore.
2. Should you want to display automatically a widget according to the post’s title, just switch on the “Widget/Inside post” option located in “General options -> Advanced ->Auto widget” in the plugin admin. Useful for blogs exclusively dedicated to movie reviews.
Option panels:
Everything (or so) can be modified in Lumière WordPress plugin. Take a look at the option panels.
Faq
How to add the Lumière! Movies widget?
First, go to “design”, “widget”, add “Lumière movies” widget to a sidebar (click on “add”) and change the box’s title (should you want the box named differently).
Secondly, edit your post (or write a new) and use the Lumière box to include a movie’s name you want to display. That’s it!
How to display movie data inside my message?
When writing your post, select the movie name and use the Lumière block.
I don’t want to have links to a popup window!
Look for “general options / advanced / Remove popup links?” and switch the option to “yes”. No links will be displayed anymore, both for widgets and within your articles.
Can I suggest a feature/report a bug regarding the plugin?
Of course, leave a message right here.
How to support the project?
Under the GPL licence, “Lumière Movies” is based on tboothman’s imdbphp php library. However, a huge customization work was required to implement it to wordpress; many new features have been developed. Should you feel in a generous mood, please send me something by Paypal.
Known issues
None.
Release history
Check Lumiere Movies changelog here
Special thanks
Thans to tboothman for making the IMDbphp classes available.
Before asking for help or improvements here
1/ Have you read the extensive help provided in the plugin? Have you had a look at FAQs and How-to in the “help” Lumiere Movies menu?
2/ Please explain your issue and report the basics: what’s the name of the movie you have a problem with, is the issue happening for all movies or only for the one you mention, if you have tried to go through WordPress « Debug mode », what are your Lumiere Movies, PHP, Apache and wordpress versions, have you tried to disable all your plugins but Lumiere Movies, etc.
Please bear with me, I won’t answer messages which don’t comply with these points.
Hi JCV,
Is this plugin GDPR compliant ?
It seems that imdb collects IP addresses and other data without prior consent.
Hi Paco,
Thanks for your very important question.
Regarding the end user visiting a wordpress website that installed the plugin, there is no issue since no data is sent to IMDb. The website host does its own queries to the IMDb, without knowing who is visiting it.
Only the website owner is known from the IMDb, and must comply with the IMDb privacy policy: https://www.imdb.com/privacy
So it is my understanding that GDPR only targets end users, and Lumière! is actually GDPR compliant. No data about the end user is sent to any third party.
I will implement a privacy information in the next release.
J’adore votre site. Bravo et merci de partager.
Hello
How to expand the taxonomies year?
Hi,
I recently installed the plugin and am having problems.
First, a movie I didn’t select, “What’s a Home Without a Dog?” is displaying in my widget. Second, movie photos are not displaying.
Please help!
Thank you!!!!
-Kelly
Hi, i’m french so excuse-me for my bad English.
I wish to show a list order by movie’s company : like that : http://www.imdb.com/company/co0309856/
include in my WordPress version 4.0.
Can I do it with your pluging ? I don’t find it.
Best regards,
Estelle
Chère Estelle,
Ce n’est malheureusement ce n’est pas possible.
J’ai par ailleurs plus ou moins arrêté le développement de ce plugin, me contentant de le mettre à jour. Mais il n’est pas prévu d’ajouter des nouvelles fonctionnalités.
Jean-Claude
Hi,
since the last update, i have a error :
Warning: Invalid error type specified in …/wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/class/imdbsearch.class.php on line 135
with the last WP release…
Hi Feilong,
This means that your php configuration is very sensitive.
Try adding the line:
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~ E_DEPRECATED & ~ E_USER_DEPRECATED & ~ E_NOTICE);
right below:
global $imdb_admin_values, $imdb_widget_values;
in imdb-link-transformer/inc/imdb-movie.inc.php
Should do the trick.
Hello!
Happy holidays!
One observation would be the imdb-link-transformer to. The taxonomy should be together, sort of the year. eg 2013 movie 2012 movie and so on. Usually such innovation?
thank you
Hi Zak,
If I understand correctly, you’re keeping an old cache. Delete all the cache. There is been a lot of changes to IMDB structures, so for the plugin.
JCV
That did it! Thanks!
Hey and thanks!
Suddenly most pages before 2013 show in the sidebar widget, “Sorry, no result found for this reference.”
Today I upgraded to WP 3.7 and the latest IMDB LT. Funny thing is, the new entries for 2013 weren’t displaying for the last few months (though no error message) so I read some things and changed the cache setting to “never” for Cache Expire and that fixed it. I’m not sure if the new problem (for the old posts) existed before I changed the cache setting.
I tried debug mode, but am not sure what that’s supposed to do. The Write permissions are 755. Other settings: Taxonomy unactivated, I also just upgraded the server host (Dreamhost) to PHP 5.3 from 5.2, akas.imdb.com, other plugins (but no other widgets) have been used for a while without issue- akismet, ShareThis, and WP Super Cache.
If you want to see, the site doesn’t have a feature to search by date so search for Ace Ventura as that was posted years ago and then Captain Phillips.
http://www.movieflawz.com
Any thoughts?
Sincerely,
Zak
Hey and thanks!
Suddenly most pages before 2013 show in the sidebar widget, “Sorry, no result found for this reference.”
Today I upgraded to WP 3.7 and the latest IMDB LT. Funny thing is, the new entries for 2013 weren’t displaying for the last few months so I read some things and changed the cache setting to “never” for Cache Expire and that fixed it. I’m not sure if the new problem (for the old posts) existed before I changed the cache setting.
I tried debug mode, but am not sure what that’s supposed to do. The Write permissions are 755. Other settings: Taxonomy unactivated, I also just upgraded the server host (Dreamhost) to PHP 5.3 from 5.2, akas.imdb.com, other plugins (but no other widgets) have been used for a while without issue- akismet, ShareThis, and WP Super Cache.
If you want to see, the site doesn’t have a feature to search by date so search for Ace Ventura as that was posted years ago and then Captain Phillips.
http://www.movieflawz.com
Any thoughts?
Sincerely,
Zak
hey, is there anyway to have Production Companies ?
It has been added to the developpement version. If you can’t wait til next release, download it there:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/imdb-link-transformer.zip
I’m having a really strange problem with the movie images in the widget. When I’m logged in as an admin in WordPress, the movie posters in the widget are displayed just fine. When I’m visiting the same exact page as a standard user or non-logged in user, it just displays “No photo available”.
Using WordPress 3.6.1, IMDB 2.2, WordFence is enabled – could that be the problem?
That sounds strange. I can only think about a permission issue; did you chmod 777 your cache folder? Check if that makes a difference.
After updating the plugin to 2.1.8 I get the following error message on my posts instead of movie info.
Warning: preg_match_all() [function.preg-match-all]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 47 in /home/mygran6/public_html/moviesthatwork.com/wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/class/imdbsearch.class.php on line 153
Sorry, no result found for this reference
I’ve done my best debugging. I got the same error with the previous version.
When I roll back IMDb LT to version 2.1.7 it works just fine.
Moviesthatwork.com
Using plugin in sidebar
Wordpress version 3.5.2
PHP 5.3.21
Apache 2.2.23
Hi wiltonblake,
Have you this issue with all movies, or with specific ones only?
That is strange, I heard about this problem with the 2.1.7 version, and it should have been fixed with 2.1.8. In your case, it is the opposite that happened.
I’ll check that as soon as I have time to do so. In the meanwhile, please let me know if all movies are broken.
JC
I’m sorry, let me correct myself. I get the error when I upgrade to 2.1.7 or 2.1.8. So I rolled back to 2.1.6.
Also, it breaks for all movies.
Thanks!
I’m then clueless. Unless it is related to PHP 5.3.21 (which is quite an old version), I have not been able to reproduce this error.
Thanks again for looking into my problem. I did confirm that Inmotion Hosting uses PHP 5.3.21 so that may be the problem. I’ll continue to use the plugin because I love it!
What an excellent plug-in. Thank you.
Is there any way to display a person’s IMDB profile page (actor, director, producer, etc) rather than a movie profile page? This would be incredibly useful …
A
i’m using your plugins for long time but today it stopped working for some imdb id’s like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2309302
do you able to shed light on it for me? i really need your plugins for my site
typo report:
on file imdb-link-transformer.php line 198 you typed “type=”text/css”” two time.
Again thank for your awesome plugin
Hi,
i am using this plugin, working great but 1 problem, i use this plugin only inside posts, but today i was checking my urls and found something is wrong with genre taxonomy. it shows 1 genre more thn 1 time, for example – Action, Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Comedy… need your help regarding this issue.
and again thanks for this super hot plugin 🙂 u rock man
please resolve this issue ASAP
and Please reply soon
Hi there would you mind sharing which blog platform you’re working with? I’m looking to start my own blog in the near
future but I’m having a difficult time making a decision between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal. The reason I ask is because your design and style seems different then most blogs and I’m looking for something completely unique.
P.S Sorry for getting off-topic but I had to ask!
WordPress – Reviewer theme and MyReview plugin
Thought I had everything resolved, but… If I place the IMDb result within the post it pulls in the picture. But if I use the widget via custom command and have the data come into the sidebar there is no picture. I do not have the use widget automatically checked. It is given the command each post depending upon the category of the post.
Do I have something set wrong?
Fixed the problem. Needed to add permissions to the folder.
When I initially commented I clicked the “Notify me when new comments are added” checkbox and now each time a comment
is added I get three e-mails with the same comment.
Is there any way you can remove me from that service? Many thanks!
Don’t you have instructions at the end of notification emails explaining how to unsubscribe?
If you haven’t, I will do it manually. Just let me know.
I am a neophyte still in the construction stage but I have a couple of questions:
Using WordPress 3.5 and IMDb transformer 2.1.6
1) I obviously have selected one too many options. I am using the code within my post to have the IMDb data appear within the post. But I am also getting a second box repeating some of the fields below the post. What do I need to uncheck to get rid of that second box?
See: http://www.chitown-moviebuffs.net/?page_id=501
2) Is there someplace to put some code with the [imdblt][/imdblt] command that automatically picks up the movie name from the post or must it be manually entered each time?
3) I have the cache set to never empty so I am presuming that the data is being kept on the site. However when I do a search using an actor’s name I get no results. How can I have the WordPress search read the cached data?
Thank you
Bob
One additional question. In the Widget option controls there is a box for some variable next to “Plot” What is supposed to go in that box? I have checked Yes for plot but it is not appearing in the widget.
Incidentally regarding my prior post (148) I found the problem. It was coming from another plugin “MyReview” It is fixed now.
Imdb transformer does however really slow the site down. I deactivated it to test and there was a marked difference. I added a cache plugin to try and improve speed but no help.
Thank you
Bob
1/ My bet is that you have same option asking for adding automatically the widget according to the title as we discuss previously?
2/ There is no such option.
3/ Turn “Display highslide popup” option on. You currently have it off, and does a search on your website instead of displaying e.g. actors.
4/ This box enables you to put a number; this number will be used to display X plot(s)
I have set the plug-in up for automatic widget.
The problem is that it is treating my static home page as a movie post and is pulling up that movie’s information. It is also trying to pull data up on my other pages. My posts are all on a separate page.
How do I limit the widget to only work with the posts page (Reviews & Analyses)? I tried changing the url on the general page to the reviews page but that did not help.
I am using The Reviewer template.
Just noticed that my site address is missing–sorry. http://www.chitown-moviebuffs.com.
Wordpress 3.5 and latest version of imdb transformer
Hi DaMeyven,
I do not see any ground for this behaviour, but let’s see if we are able to address it.
Open the file inc/widget.php, and at line 33, replace
if ($imdb_widget_values[imdbautopostwidget] == true) {by
if ( ($imdb_widget_values[imdbautopostwidget] == true) && (is_single()) ){If it works, this fix will be in the next plugin’s release. If it doesn’t, I’m clueless…
BTW, your website is unavailable.
JC
Hi,
your plugin slows down my website by factor ~5, and i am talking about the homepage, not any page or movie-post with imdb data included.
http://www.uncensored.at
loading without imdb link transformer: ~1,62s
loading with imdb link transformer: ~6,69s (up to 16s sometimes!)
strangely there is no imdb data display on the homepage, so what can i do to speed up loading time of the website? “Display highslide popup” is set to no, cache expire is default at 2592000 (and seems to work fine)
greetings
alexander
Hi Alexander,
Please comply with “Before asking for help or improvements here” part.
BTW, I cannot see why you are experimenting such an issue; if the plugin is not used on your homepage, there is no reason it would slow down that homepage…
Try perhaps to remove “Kategorien” and “Film nach Land” to see if it makes a difference. I saw strange behaviour with WP cache functions, looking ahead of the current visited page.
Jean-Claude
Ultimamente desde la ultima actulizacion el plugin ha dejado de funcionarme correctamente, me sale el popup en blanco,.. pueden decirme que puedo hacer para solucionarlo.- gracias.-
Hi,
My client is building a site with Movie Posters. The legacy data will not have the IMDB ids but the new entries will have them. Overtime there will be some data clean-up, so more and more of the entries will eventually have the IMDB ID key. This is very important because the Movieposters span generations and titles are often duplicated – ie. Dracula – the exact IMDB id is critical to make this work everytime.
I’ve changed your code in widget.php to include the following:
Right after $flimid I set a variable with the metakey of ‘imdb-movie-widget-bymid’ for the post, I then added an && test to the line with imdbautopostwidget to include a check to see if the variable has a value, if not, then auto search, if yes then search by imdbID.
I have the code change, and if you like this change, I’ll send you the file for consideration.
I don’t like to make this change myself because it will break in your future releases and I’ll have to patch your code in the future for my client anytime they update the plug-ins.
Best,
Steve
Hi,
This is probably my favourite WordPress plugin EVER, so thank you for your amazing efforts.
One thing though: despite selecting only 5 actors to display in the settings, it always displays more. Is there a way to ensure it only displays as many as I select?
Thank you!
Hi, Thanks for creating this great plugin. My question is, I can see the budget class in the scripts, but I can’t add budget field in the widget.
Is there any plans to add budget functionality? I want to get Gross, Opening Budget data etc.
Thanks
Hi, Any ideas on this one? Still looking for a solution if possible…
I’m also wondering can imdb data be accessed within the wordpress loop? I.e. runtime, release year etc.
Hi
I am searching for a while but I love to ad more than just basics in the display list.
I’m working on a friends wordpress site and he is a DOP so it would be great if I can ad camera department details on the site.
is this possible?
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It will be great that imdb link transformer retrieves movies and displays them in posts or pages or widget without the need of “movie name” and/or “movie ID” from imdb web site. Perhaps it can be developed to act like “google news” widget. That will be super!
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Also, allow TV shows and other type, instead of just movies?
scratch that 🙂 PS: IMDb seems to load slow. Fix this issue?
SUGGESTIONS/IDEAS:
– Release date instead of Year?
– Short plots?
– Embed trailer?
– Edit CSS?
PS: Please fix Order’s display page, it’s not letting me arrange things.
How can I add commas between each actors like genre’s format?
How can I remove “Written by [Name]” from showing up in the plot?
How can I make my page load faster when I use this plugin?
mine looks like:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2z4xu2o.png
PS: Sorry for all the questions. Please do reply. Thanks!
Hello, great plugin.
Althout I have got one question.
I would like to display a “filmography” of a person (plain content without popup).
Is this possible somehow? If not, does somebody know any other ways? Thanks so much!
Hi Andy,
It wouldn’t be that complicated. Actually, that is only to adapt a one or two php files.
It is on my todo list; unfortunately, I don’t have any time left right now to go through this… perhaps in a couple of months.
It doesn’t work at all. It’s like it’s not even activated. No widget or admin panel. I’ve updated to 3.3. When I click the link to the options page it says You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
Please, consult “Before asking for help or improvements here” section. Check also your chmod permissions.
Is there a way I can save the generated output of the plugin in the database? I mean I’m a bit unhappy that the content it’s not searchable on my site. If a user searches for an actor on my site it will get no response because the blogpost body is generated ‘on the fly’ and not stored in the DB.
Thank you!
Hi Marc,
Indeed, that would be such a nice feature. I tried to add it a while ago, but never succeded. Unfortunately, I don’t have the php and wordpress knowledge to achieve that.
What you guys want is sort of possible. Go to the plugin settings > Widget/Inside post Options > What to taxonomize. Here you can select which items to store in the database (director, actor, etc), which you can then display as a clickable link inside your posts. You can not use this data for a search, but maybe there’s another plugin for that.
Hi, This is an absolutely amazing plugin exactly what I needed, hell I would of paid for it if it wasn’t free lol..
However I had a very limited luck with it.. I added about 70+ movies detail using cache option & transfering files to my server by creating 2 folder for image & other cache..
here how it looked:
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/3663/35556386.jpg
but then I was just sorting some orders (display order in which you choose which description goes first I was bringing up the plot after poster) & it just crashed says I need to make the entry first..
then onward suddenly my post stopped displaying one by one..
so now the blog looks like this:
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6017/42564590y.jpg
on every page it says “Sorry, no result found for this reference”
I also saw PLUGIN COLLISION
so obviously I did something wrong or is it some kind of plugin issue, I have tried switching off all the plugin yet it still doesn’t work.
I also deleted the plugin & reinstalled it through FTP (while cache folder remain intact) yet no luck..
I also read through at least 20 posts & followed through JCV posts but on one seem to have come across this issue.. so please help anyone..
btw I keep the older version of WP 2.8.5, as my other plugin are not compatible with newer WP, not to mention the IMDB LT was working like a charm until there was collision on plugin & I did something to setting.. so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks alot in adv.
Great widget, thanks. Is there a way to use the sidebar widget where it automatically retrieves the post’s title (which would be the official IMDB movie title) in order to display info for that movie?
I ask because I just moved my site and switched to WordPress and I already have over 225 movie posts. I doubt I’ll have the patience to edit each one.
Silver
It is a feature already available, though not documented…
Activate widget, add IMDbLT Widget to your sidebar, and go to “Widget/Inside post Options” menu, select “misc” from the new menu, and select “yes” from “Auto widget?” option at end.
The next time you will look at your post, you will find the widget according to your post’s title.
Wow, it works amazingly! Thanks!
Two little things I noticed…
1) The ratings graphic does not show, just the text of the number of votes. And same for the IMDb ‘Source’ graphic at the bottom.
2) The ‘Order’s display’ feature doesn’t work…nothing can move up or down the list.
These two issues happen in both FF 6.02 and IE 9.08.
Keep up the good work!
S
It is quite difficult helping you without the basics (IMDbLT release, php, etc)
However:
1) Check all the picture in “pics” and its subfolder are correctly uploaded, with correct CHMOD. I cannot access
https://web.archive.org/web/20120302155516/http://www.movieflawz.com/wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/pics/showtimes/60.gif
2) Is there something installed preventing you to use javascript? Some plugin installed in you browser?
I also noticed when clicking on links supposed to open the popup (actors links, for instance) nothing is displayed. Should be caused by a bad installation.
Your second reply made me realize the problem- the directory was “/…transformer.2.0.8.” I changed it in Settings and all is fine.
Thanks!
ok sorry, I’ve read that italin version doesn’t work well
Hi Diablos,
Well, the chinese version doesn’t work at all, but I wasn’t aware there was any. As the italian’s.
Where the heck did you get an italian version? And what do you mean by “it doesn’t work well”?
Hi jcv,
I’m using Version 2.0.7 of your plugin. Using “akas.imdb.com (default)”. Don’t know which php version.
Not getting any pictures.
Does that help?
Thanks,
well, it helps a little.
Try to switch the imdb address to “uk imdb”
If it doesn’t make a change, and since you wrote you have this issue with all movies, it is maybe linked with a cache misconfiguration. Check cache management and look if everything seems working.
Thanks for much for creating one of the best WordPress plugins I’ve ever used! Thanks for all the hard work! This really is incredible!
A couple of issues:
1) I keep on getting “No Photo Available” where the poster/cover should be. Is this a known issue and how do I change this?
2) What’s the long term nature of this plugin like? If imdb changes the way it presents its links, will all of our information be lost on our sites?
Kind regards,
Matt
Thanks for such kind words, Matt!
1/ Please be more specific. Can’t help with so few informations.
2/ IMDb changes its presentations every month (or so). This plugin is actively supported since 3 years (or so). Regardless with these facts, I perfectly understand your fear: it is why under “cache management” admin option you may choose to keep *forever* your cache.
Hi,
This is what I mean regarding point 1:
http://filmframe.net/kids/
If you check my site in that link, you’ll see the entry for the film “Kids” doesn’t display a poster image. It’s the same for all the films I’ve tried it with. Am I doing something wrong?
Regards,
which imdb lt release, which php version, have you tried “Debug mode” (general options-advanced-misc-debug mode), which imdb address do you use (akas.imdb.com, french imdb, uk imdb), please.
Hello,
I’m trying to activate IMDB on my web site, but it seems to not want to work with the WP to Twitter plugin
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare plugin_action() (previously declared in /xxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/wp-to-twitter/wp-to-twitter.php on line 1064) in /xxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/inc/widget.php:104
1/ download this file :
http://www.ikiru.ch/tmp/widget.php.txt
2/ change its name to widget.php
3/ replace your /wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/inc/widget.php file with the new one.
4/ report if everything works.
it’s great…
Hi, I want to show only thumbnails of movies on homepage but complete imformation on single.php files. how can I do this? thanks
unfortunately, there is no way to get the plugin working this way. It would require a complete rewritting.
Hi JCV.
I’ve noticed that the plugin has recently stopped returning the IMDB rating. I’ve deleted the cache but no difference. (I’ve made the odd code change but I don’t think I’ve affected anything important). Is it just me or is anyone else getting this problem?
Thanks
Mark
please update. last release should take care of the IMDb changes.
Thanks JCV, for some reason WP was telling me that 2.0.5 was the latest version. I’ve updated now and got it working.
I love this plugin with only one exception. I use this plguin for custom fields on the right side widgets. I works great except for all popup links for actors, directors and so on do not display any image. It only shows the default no image available. Why is this? Or, how can I fix this? Any suggestions?
Still, a great plugin overall! I will continue to donate once the image problem is fixed.
will updating imdb link transformer affect imdb-movie.inc.php file? beacause i made changes to it, i’m hesitating to update the plugin because i’m afraid it will revert everything back.
i also have a suggestion if ever you release a new update, it would be great if you can choose what informations to show on the imdb widget and post. like i want to show the director, actors, writers, image on the widget only and show plot, quotes, trivias, etc. inside the post. thanks for the great plugin! 🙂
yes, it will update imdb-movie.inc.php file.
what do you mean? you already have such options…
what i mean is there’s a separate option for widget and post. for example, i want to show the image, director, actors and writers on the widget only and the movie plot, quotes, and trivia inside the post
unfortunately, there is no way to get the plugin working this way. It would require new development, and time I don’t have right now.
However, I note your request for a later development.
hi! i really love your plugin but i think there’s a problem with it, sometimes it doesn’t retrieve the plot of the movie. any way to resolve this? i also have a suggestion, can you make the plugin to automatically retrieve a movie from imdb and make a post? i know this would be a tedious work, but you can make it as a premium feature so that your hard work will be compensated. just a suggestion 🙂
Unfortunately, I don’t have the knowledge to improve the loop.
I’m not a developer (not at all)…
Salut jcv,
again, I thank you for the great work and I am still grateful for the support you try to give here even with other projects in mind.
You just need to replace the function is_multiArrayEmpty() in inc/functions.php line 109 with the one mentioned here: http://in2.php.net/manual/fr/function.empty.php#94786 (there it is called “array_empty”).
It works the same, but faster and appears to not be buggy.
So long,
fha
thanks a lot, fha. Next imdblt release will include the new faster empty mulitarrays you provided. It seems to work perfectly and much faster at time.
I have to intensively test it, yet. But looks very promising!
Salut,
thanks for this great WP plugin. Here is how I use it: I have a WP theme which looks for either the IMDB Id in a specific custom field or a movie’s title in the posting’s title field. If found, the output of imdb-link-transformer is added to the posting and other content – even post listings like archive or search – is ignored.
However, after using the plugin for half a year already, I just found a small bug, possibly occurring very rarely. It happened with the movie 0076759 (Star Wars Ep. IV) which throws a long error message (too many recursions). Trace log revealed a problem in file inc/imdb-movie.inc.php, ln 500, function is_multiArrayEmpty.
I tried to check it myself, but don’t have too much time to look for the real cause of error. I fixed it with using a better loop, though, you can find a similar function also posted on php.net, http://in2.php.net/manual/fr/function.empty.php#94786
Regards,
fha
hello,
first of all, thank you for this great plugin. is a must for all the ones who comment (and love) films.
I’d like to know if is there any way to ask the plugin for one single data, just something like get_imdb_data(0293113, title) and get the result ‘Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary’.
I don’t know if I can’t find the way to do it, or if is just not possible to do.
Thank you!
Yes, there is a way; check “Inside a post” part from plugin’s help section, you’ll learn how to use (imdblt)(/imdblt) special tags.
thank you for your answer!
I know I can use [imdbltid][/imdbltid] with the imdb ID into a post, but can it be displayed outside a post and with only the info I want at any moment (like director, year, or title, for exemple) and not the configured data in the “what to display” section of the options page?
thanks again!
I have basic php knowledge only, but I’m gonna try. and then, if I can make it work, I’ll let you know!
thanks!
Sorry, I read too quickly your previous question.
There is no way currently to achieve what you look for; however, it shouldn’t be a huge task to build a new function using imdb-link-transformer.php and inc/imdb-movie.inc.php files…
I don’t think I’d find the time to code such a function, since I’m very busy and don’t think it will change soon; if you have some php knowledge… use it 🙂
Thanks for cool plugin i did not face any problem in installation thanks for sharing.
Thanks for you kind words 🙂
About the cache, i noticed that several movie caches were not saved, that makes the page loading very slow. In particular, the .search file is not created, even if movie details are correctly shown.
Any tips?
Please make an understandable report; for instance, which search is not saved?
Also please note movie details are not related to .search cache files. Movie details are saved in .Name, .Bio, .Credits files and so on.
Ok, I probably got the problem.
I set up an automatic script that read film title from a folder (or NAS) and insert the wordpress post, with the exact film title as imdb query. The most are Italian title, so the plugin can retrieve movie information also with the italian title, but don’t save the correct query cache.
Example, “Black Swan”. The Italian title is “Il Cigno Nero”, the query “il+cigno+nero” works without cache, but when i changed the query in “black+swan” the cache were correctly saved.
I still have problems with “Tron+Legacy” query, the only word “Tron” returns wrong film…
(between the imdblt tags there is a blank space instead of +)
Tron is a 1982 movie. Tron legacy is a 2010 movie.
If you search for “tron”, here is the result : tron
If you search for “tron legacy”, here is the result : tron legacy
Can’t understand what happens on your side…
the search “tron legacy” display the correct informations, but don’t save the cache.
If I search “tron 2”, the informal title taken from imdb.com, the cache is correctly saved…
Yes, the 0084827.* (tron) and 1104001.* (tron legacy) have been created correctly, but you probably don’t have only the “tron+legacy.search” file, without this file the plugin can’t read cached informations.
Another example, italian title “Gli Immaturi” get information retrieved, but no gli+immaturi.cache file written. But I can get cache working with “the immature” query (and the+immature.cache file)
Sorry for my bad english, and thank you for your time 😉
Sorry, italian title “immaturi” (cache not working), right query “the immature”
Can’t understand what happens on your side. Soon after adding these two links on message 118.1.2, a few cache files have been created in cache folder : 0084827.* (tron) and 1104001.* (tron legacy).
I can’t reproduce here your issue…
Another question, if you don’t mind:
Personally, I would like to see an option for saving all movie details to the database, instead of relying on cache. This would speed up my site greatly I imagine, and I don’t have to fear my IDMb cache will be deleted by other plugins (which happens from time to time). So stuff like Plot and Also Known As could be saved as extra fields (basically all the things that can’t be taxonomized) maybe?
I don’t think it would be a desirable feature; imdb data are modified from time to time!
However, there is a way to obtain what you’re looking for, even though it will not save data in a database: change cache paths (under cache management) and tick “never” from expiration cache; your data will never updated again and be secured against any kind of deletion.
I agree it won’t be a desirable feature for most people. I will take a close look at the settings and code and see if I can come up with something myself.
About the cache: I already have the “never” option checked, but still my cache got deleted yesterday, probably because another mod (that I installed yesterday) also uses the cache folder.
Hmm, if you disable caching, and only display items that have been taxonomized (director, actors, etc.), does the page still connect to the IMDb? It looks like it does, because loading in this case is still slow, as if the page is waiting for a response by the IMDb database.
Does it do this to compare the taxonomized items with the IMDb items, to update them if necessary? Or is there another reason?
[quote]As I wrote, change the imdblt cache path, and no plugin will ever delete your cache.[/quote]
Oops, I missed the part about changing the path, thanks!
[quote]Maybe I wrongly understand, but… if you turn cache off, requests will continuously made to IMDB website. Cache is there to avoid these requests.[/quote]
I will try to explain:
Suppose I use the plugin to store movie data as taxonomy items. That means it is stored in my own database. If I do not display any IMDb items on my WordPress page (using your plugin) exept for the items that were taxonomized, why does the page still connect to the IMDb site?
As I wrote, change the imdblt cache path, and no plugin will ever delete your cache.
Maybe I wrongly understand, but… if you turn cache off, requests will continuously made to IMDB website. Cache is there to avoid these requests.
I have caching turned off, so I can test some stuff related to your plugin. That is also why the movie page is loading slowly. But, if you read my previous post, keep in mind that I was refering to the movie details page (I should have made that clear). On my movie details page, I only display items that were taxonomized by your plugin. Shouldn’t the page be loading much quicker then? Because it should not be retrieving stuff from the IMDb? Here is an exemple of my movie details page: http://www.cinema-extreme.com/dvd/136/blue-velvet/
I did not modify any taxonomy php page.
1/ How do you know taxonomy page is connecting to IMDb? Reading again your previous message, let me add this: the loading time doesn’t not imply a IMDb connection. But it seems you still have a cache issue regarding movie pages (if cache is on, movie pages should be displayed much quicker), and the time to display taxonomy pages is very… well, very speedy! I tried with http://www.cinema-extreme.com/dvd/director/david-lynch/ and I can’t see any issue. Which is not the case of movie pages.
2/ Have been taxonomy-genre.php, taxonomy-director.php (or taxonomy.php?) modified? taxonomy-genre.php, which is the provided one with the plugin, should not make any kind of request to imdb.
Well, if you turned your cache off, and you browse a message including movie details, your page will do requests to imdb website. That’s a normal behavior.
Even though your taxonomies are saved in “wp_term_taxonomy” table, terms are not retrieved by imdblt plugin. Taxonomies are “meta” data, meant to categorize the message, not to be retreived inside the message itself. Thus, if you turn cache off, a message including movie details will take ages to show off.
Okay, I understand now. I thought the plugin loaded taxonomy from the database instead of IMDb.
I took a look at imdb-movie.inc.php, and changed some things so that no IMDb calls are made when the plugin detects a post already has taxonomy generated by the plugin. This greatly enhanced loading times on my site, and I don’t have to rely on cache anymore (it is turned off). This is tailored to my specific needs so it won’t be desirable to everyone, but I’m happy now 🙂
Using the WP Super Cache mod with IMDB Link Transformer is probably not a good idea, right?
Don’t know WP Super Cach plugin; you’ll have to test on your own.
Hi,
Is there a way to search the cached data? add it to the wordpress search feature?
Thanks,
Eitan
Hi Eitan,
I miss the knowledge to implement such a feature (which would be great, BTW).
Any tips to use this beautiful plugin behind a proxy?
thanks in advance
Short answer: Unfortunately, no.
Longer answer: you may have luck using the PEAR function implemented into imdbphp libraries, the base of imdblt. However, it may not work, it is not supported (neither by Izzy nor I), and you have to understand well how the link between imdbphp libraries and imblt works.
In mdb_request.class.php (line 20) seems to be a proxy option…
Thanks for the reply.
I noticed that some movies cache is not correctly saved. The .search file is not created, even if movie details are correctly shown.
Any tips?
…which needs PEAR. As I wrote previously, you may eventually get the Proxy working.
I’ve just discovered that the widget only finds the movie if the tt number on IMDB is followed by a full seven digits – if you store it numerically like me, you need to pad it out with leading zeroes. Or alternatively, you can alter the code in widget.php, line 59 to pad it out for you.
Change $moviespecificid = $value;
to
$moviespecificid = str_pad($value, 7, “0”, STR_PAD_LEFT);
Hi Mark,
I don’t see the point to my use, but since it’d be useful to you and I can’t think about any side effect, next IMDBlt release’ll implement your change 🙂
BTW, your site is very well done!
Thanks jcv for your kind words. My site’s a lot better because of your plugin.
One small request: if there’s any chance of adding ‘cinematographer’ to the movie details, that would be appreciated
Hi Mark,
I can’t add cinematographer, since IMDBphp doesn’t include it (yet).
Feel you free to ask Izzy here : http://projects.izzysoft.de/trac/imdbphp/wiki/WikiStart
is there a way to set the image size when displayed inside post.
“layout” section from the very first imdblt options (general options).
Check for “Imdb cover picture” size.
Hi…great plugin you have here.I just need a little help.I’d like to add <!–more–> tag in your IMDB display on the blog home…because the blog home are too long now. I want to make it shorter by adding <!–more–> tag after the cover picture. Can you help me with this? Thank you.Once again…great great job with the plugins 🙂
Hi Pandu,
There is no way to achieve what you’re looking for. At least, there is no imbdlt function allowing such a feature.
But… if you don’t have too many movie posts, you may get rid of the title & the picture automatically displayed (through imdblt options), and add manually, for each movie post, both title & picutre; you would add after them “more” tag.
That’s not a great solution, but unfortunately the plugin doesn’t work in the way you would like. At least, for now: I can think about a technical change in the plugin’s behaviour. I’ll put your request on my todo list; as soon as I have a bit more spare time, I’ll see what I can do.
Thank you for your reply 🙂
That’s a good idea…I will do that…thank’s a lot 🙂
About taxonomy….I’ve set the taxonomy for genres,actors & directors…is it true that taxonomy only show in the first post on home?Because mine is.It only show (the taxonomy link) in the first post on home & not showing (taxonomy link) at all at a single post page. And when I click the link, it shows a blank page…no 404..just a empty post.Are there any steps that I missed on setting the taxonomy?
Yes. Check how to from imdblt help section.
hi i really like your plug-in but i have some problems. some of the movie’s plot don’t show up, especially those movies which are not yet released in theaters. if the movies plot is already available in imdb, will the plug-in pull the plot and update the cache or will it just load the cached items in my website which has an empty plot? and if it will not automatically update the cache, can i use the comments instead of the plot if plot is not available?
Hi Cram,
The cache is meant to avoid new queries to IMDb website; as long as a cache exists (its life cycle is managed by the “cache expire” value), no new query is done. This means the data will stay exactly the same until a cache update is done.
You have two solutions to update your cache: either change the “cache expire” value (under “Cache management” section) or delete the cache related to the movie you want to update (under “Cache delete” from “Cache management” section).
If you are looking to use the comments instead of the plot, you have to modify the plugin’s behaviour yourself, since such a function is not available.
I have a problem with slow load times. I used this wonderful plugin to convert WordPress to a DVD/Blu-ray catalogue of my collection, with much succes (this works much better than DVD Profiler for example). Browsing titles is quick enough, but when you view a post it takes too long for the page to finish loading. You can try for yourself here: http://www.cinema-extreme.com/dvd/.
I tried removing all my widgets, which made no difference, and I have turned off all IMDb data that gets retrieved from their website, leaving only the data that is taxonomized. But posts still load very slowly. What could cause this?
I am on shared hosting btw, but there is a large forum running on the same domain which is very quick to load, so I’m not sure that is a factor.
Hi Marc,
The only issue I can think of would be if you wouldn’t have the cache activate; did you?
You were right, somehow my cache folders were deleted :-/
Restored them and all is working well now, thanks!
Hi,
When I post any movie, such as K-pax the link that contains the name is very dark and its not visible against my dark backround only when hovered. at charcoalwaves.tk/about
How can i change the colour?
Sory for double post
Hi Vizo,
You may modify the css file
/wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/css/imdb.cssand especially next values : .link-imdb, .link-imdb:hover and .link-imdb:hover
I solved it from style.css ,problem looks like was there
Thank you
Hi,
When I enclose any movie eg:k-pax the link(name of movie) is shown in a very dark colour which is almost invisible against my dark backround.
Is there any way to change the colour? its here: charcoalwaves.tk/about
Hi I LOVE your plugin, however, i am having one issue! On the new WordPress 3.1 there are no custom fields anymore underneath the post section, and since there are no custom fields, how do we get the widget to function?
Please advise, as I really want this to work!
Kind Regards,
Anthony
Hi Anthony,
On my own, with wp 3.1 installed, I still do have custom fields.
Be sure to select custom fields from the screen options, which is located on top right.
Hi,
Great plugin!
Just wondering, since the page/post content only has the imdbltid shortcode, and imdb content is cached, is there a way to export all posts with imdb content?
Thanks!
Hi,
To export imdb content? What do you mean? The cache is composed by files, and the files can be moved, but…
Explain what you want to do, and keep in mind IMDB link transformer is only a port from imdbphp, which means… these libraries could be virtually imported to every kind of software!
I would like to export all my posts to excel.
Now, when I export, post content only shows the imdbltid shortcode. How can I include the imdb content in my exorted posts?
well, I understand now, but there is no way I can think of which would allow to achieve what you want to do… Since data are meant to be
temporary data, what you would to export should be unavailable from WordPress. You would have to extract data directly from the website generated (IE, from a page displayed by firefox) instead of the way offered by WordPress.
Sorry.
Thank you for your answer.
What format are the file in the cache folder?
0004365.Bio, 0004365.Name etc?
How can I access their content?
Right, thank you. My cache was zipped and I could not access the content. Changed the settings and now it works.
I’ll continue investigating this amazing plugin. Now I just need to have my boss donate 🙂
The number is related to the IMDB id; “Lola rennt” imdb website, for instance, is http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/. “0130827” is its imdb id. The imdblt cache follows same rules.
The cache is in HTML format; you may add “.html” to the files included into you cache folder, you will be able to open it through firefox. Except if the “convert to zip” is selected as imdblt option; you may have to unzip the zipped file first, then add “.html”, then open the file with you browser.
Is there an easy way to only pull the movie’s director’s name (for instance) inside(via) page.php instead of the entire allmeta ?
Check “Inside a post” from plugin help section. In your case, it will be the tricky way (function imdb_call_external), as you won’t add the code inside a post, but instead in a php page.
After that, select/unselect what you wanna display from “Widget/Inside post Options”.
You’re done 🙂
I have a certain problem, I’ve used the plugin for a client and it works awesomely. But the movie images doesn’t show up at all. is there anything you can think of?
The web URL is attached
1/ What imdb server do you use? (General options -> advanced -> IMDb adress)
2/ How is cache managed? Did you check the path’s cache, does it seem correct? No error in cache options page? If you check /wp-content/cache/imdb/images folder, do you find files named XXXXX.jpg and/or XXXXX_big.jpg?
3/ What imdb link transformer release do you use?
4/ What php version is installed?
5/ Do you have this issue with every movie?
I use the default address. and the Cache is fine and no mysterious files either.
as well i’m using the latest version of the plugin which is 2.0.4
and yes it has the same issue with every movie
Hi,
which plugin release, with which movie’s name do you experiment this issue? did you create actor and director pages, according genre’s model? after activating actor and director taxonomies, have you visited wordpress permalink settings page (located on /wp-admin/options-permalink.php) ?
hi, I have some taxonomy problem. genre taxonomy working well but for example actor and directors taxonomy not work. i think plugin not auto taxonomy them. I checked the general settings and everythings fine, genre taxonomy working but actor and directory not work its turn back 404 not found error..
To the many people waiting for a new release fixing the picture’s retrieve issue… sorry for the long delay. But the waiting was worth of it, new release should fix the problem.
Last development release is found here. Please report.
hi, is there anyway i can set up the imdb links to open up in a new window, rather than a pop-up window?
hey mate, back again,
i got problem with this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189171/
it cannot get data from this item.
First, thanks for this great plugin.
Would it be possible to add the ‘Cinematography By’ details to the extract? Thanks.
@Zarban & Anders: current development release implements last imdbphp release. You shouldn’t experiment any issue anymore.
Until next IMDb change 🙂
I got the link to the development version from your messages below and installed it, but it didn’t seem to have any effect. The posters still didn’t get cached or displayed. I tried deleting the cache again, but that didn’t help.
Hi Zarban,
I tried right now, and everything seems to work flawlessy.
Would you mind name a movie’s name you can’t get its poster? I’ll try on my own. I just tried with “Matrix” for instance, and the poster is got…
I just re-downloaded the development release and reinstalled. First, I deactivated and deleted all the files from the previous version. Then I uploaded and activated the new version. I left all the defaults and didn’t change any file code.
I still get a lot of “Sorry, no result found for this reference” messages. But mostly I get the “No Photo Available” image, including for The Matrix. The cache settings page says “Folder exists. Permissions OK.” for both cache folders.
In the cache, I see 4 thumbnails and 3 big image. The thumbnails are Halloween (1978), Fright Night, O Brother, and Terminator TV series. The big images are Phantom Menace, Evil Dead II, and Star Trek.
The entries for the movies that have thumbnails display the “No Photo Available” message. There are three entries for Evil Dead II. The one that has IMDb-Movie-Widget set to “Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn” displays correctly. The one where it is set to “Evil Dead II” displays the “Sorry” error. The one where IMDb-Movie-Widget-bymid is set to “0092991” also displays correctly.
However, when I switch the settings to “Display only thumbnail: Yes” then the movies with thumbnails display correctly and the movies with big images do not. Regardless, no other entries are creating cached images.
I’ve switched it back to “Display only thumbnail: No”. When I created a copy of 0077651.jpg (Halloween) and renamed it 0077651_big.jpg, the image for Halloween started appearing correctly.
Thanks for this huge debug report.
I’ll have a deep look in that asap; I’m currently quite busy with RL, and it seems like this issue is going to take me some spare time 🙂
But let me to thank you for you debuging process, Zarban!
No problem. After a few days, I started seeing the big images being cached and showing up correctly. I don’t actually want the big images; I want the thumbnails. So I changed the settings, but the thumbnails aren’t showing up. I’ll see if that changes over the next few days. I may also download the cached images and convert them to thumbnails myself with a macro.
I love this plugin. It really makes my movie-related site pop, and I waited eagerly for the new version. However, I see a lot of entries now produce the error “Sorry, no result found for this reference” when using the imdb-movie-widget metakey. The entries that use imdb-movie-widget-bymid are fine. For example, all 4 entries for The Warriors have an imdb-movie-widget metakey of “The Warriors” but get no result. The entries for How to Be and March of the Penguins have an imdb-movie-widget metakey of “How to Be” and “March of the Penguins”, and those work fine. I’ve tried Izzy, Sevec, and Moonface, and the default and UK IMDb, but I get the same results.
When I turn on debugging, those entries that use -bymid are fine. Those that use the imdb-movie-widget either display the error or display the correct IMDb entry with the debugging message like this:
Also, I have the widget set to display thumbnails, but some entries have images that are quite large (March of the Penguins, Clash of the Titans, The Wolfman). It would be great to be able to confine them to icon size.
What a debugging report 🙂 Not used to get so many details, thanks for taking so much time.
The issue you experience is related to the cache; IMDb website has been completely revamped, therefore IMDb plugin had to be adapted. It reads data differently now, and when it tries to read “old” cache, it doesn’t understand anymore how to read them 🙂 The good news is you only have to delete the cache to get it working back; the bad news is you should have to delete all the cache…
Alternatively, you may either wait for the automatical renew of the cache delete the cache (one month by default) or delete the specific movie’s cache not displayed (for instance, the march of the penguins) turning imdblt cache option “Show advanced cache details” to yes and selecting the movie. That latter would work for a small-medium sized website; I fear your huge site, with so many movies cached, would crash if turning the cache details option on yes! I think you’re better delete all the cache, but you can experiment the other way. If it crash, it only will display a timeout error, after all, and you could turn back the option to “no”.
Regarding the thumbnail size, you have turned “Display only thumbnail” to yes, as I see… well, I have to look at the code, but it wasn’t coded in that way. I’ll look if I can do something.
BTW, quite happy to see my plugin so deeply used on your website. It’s amazing what you’ve done! Very complete website. But, if I’m allowed to give you an advice: it would be nice to be able to get home (root page) straightly. Usually done by putting a link to home on the top picture, which get the user back to http://www.zarban.com/
Stay tuned.
Thanks for your response! I deleted the cache, and the plugin now is able to find all the films. However, it now cannot find images for any entry. I’ve tried turning off the cache, turning off icons, changing search variant and IMDB address, and a few other things without success. I also changed the permissions on the cache folder. The message now says “Permissions OK” where it previously said “Check permissions” but it isn’t caching any images.
Also, I took your advice. Previously only the “Zarban.com” part of the header on my site was linked to the home page, which was not obvious. But now the whole header image is linked.
I’m experiencing the sam issue to Zarban in that new posters won’t show. Just shows the default blank image, despite the fact that the film has a IMDb image. All other data is displayed fine.
@Zarban: and what about development release, with the functionality you asked for? Does it work as you like?
@Zarban & Anders: for a few months, pictures are got erratically when using firefox browser . Somedays it was working, somedays it wasn’t. But with previous release, you had the solution to use IE instead Firefox; with current releases, both Firefox and IE are impacted with this very unpredictable behaviour. My advice, for now (but I reported this issue again to imdbphp coder), is… to try again tommorow. And if still doesn’t work, the day after tommorow. That’s a strange answer, quite frustrating, but I can’t give you another. For now, at least.
Yes, I’ve installed the development release. When I first deleted the cache (with the previous release), it all seemed to work fine for a few minutes except for the image sizing problem. Then I noticed that I was no longer getting images at all. I installed the development release and saw no difference. I do notice that there is a slight difference in the size of the default image when I turn off the icon setting, so the sizing code is probably working, but without any actual posters, I can’t be sure.
As you can tell, I’ve re-added my modifications to the plugin to put the poster in a picture frame, shorten the role names (gets rid of the episode counts for TV show characters), and turn off the director credit if there are more than 4 directors (TV shows). I just noticed my picture frame code is broken in IE6; I’ll have to fix that.
I know IMDb is changing things on you, and everyone’s site is different, so I can be patient. Do you have a PayPal account for donations? I’d be happy to keep you happy about continuing to update the plugin. 🙂
I realized my question about the development release was out of purpose if you couldn’t get pictures; but it was much time after sending my answer 🙂
On my side, IE6 renders flawlessy the frame. Nice use of the plugin you make!
We are bound to wait, right now! But Izzy (imdbphp libraries makers) is looking to how to correct this issue. Quite busy at this time, but since he’s very skillful, I don’t have any doubt, he’ll find a workaround.
You’ll find the link either in help/help imdblt menu or by following “Donate to this plugin” on wordpress plugin’s website 🙂
Last development release should expect your needs.
Hi!
Awesome plugin! But, today the movie title suddenly outputs (-1). How weird is that? It happens to all new entries (but worked fine a couple of days ago). See screenshot here: http://grab.by/6Ohn
If I uncheck ‘Year’ on the options page, the title is blank. Anyone else experiencing this? Maybe it’s fixed in v2.0.3 (mentioned in the changelog)? If so, when will this update be released?
Thanks again for a super plugin – movie blogging suddenly became fun again!
I have this problem too. It’s probably because IMDb is changing stuff on their site, breaking compatability…
It’s certainly be related to what said Marc.
Development release can be found here. Based on last imdbphp libraries, should correct noted issues.
I don’t have any estimated time of release to share; I release new versions only when I’ve been through extensive tests…
Hia,
Thanks for all quick responses and bla bla 🙂
I was wondering if you could add the movie title to the taxonomy as well :), I know that there is currently issue with the dates so we could wait a bit, but going forward with my blog now I would like to have the title as taxonomy as well 🙂
ah and yeah nice avatar I’ve got here – washed brain
It wouldn’t be very complicate to do, but… what is exactly the goal? I don’t see any purpose to have title as a taxonomy…
That’s Homer Simpson 🙂
Related posts by movie title :), the connection could be even the movie ID.
Something that make connection with the movie at all, but not by actors, directors and etc.
Where can you download the development release? I don’t see a link, and it’s not on the WordPress site?
Title as taxonomy added (download development release from imdblt wordpress website).
I hope you will post the result, I’m curious to see this kind of use…
This is an excellent mod I have to say, really cool. I found a bug though: I am trying to display a movie’s country inside a post, but it doesn’t show up. I activated Country under What To Display, but nothing. Using the latest version of both this plugin and WordPress.
IMDb website has completely been revamped; as soon as Izzy’s libraries are released, a new IMDb link transformer plugin will also be released.
Sorry for the waiting.
current development release should take care of this issue.
Thank for your reactivity.
After the reset, it is working fine. Thank
Hi,
I use your plug-in since a while now, and thinks a lot for your good work. I have a (very little) problem whit the last release 2.0.2. In the plugin options, section display order, the new function trailer doesn’t appears, I can’t choose any location. Nevertheless, the trailer appears in the widget sidebar at the top, just after the title…
Hi feilong,
Glad to read you find the plugin useful.
Did you click on reset?
This plugin is getting better and better 🙂 Moreover I am happy that I could put something from myself as well 🙂 🙂
I am planning to make translation foo BG and CZ and as soon as I am done I will send the translation
I was just wondering if we could have the release date as taxonomy as well, but not in one field but day month year.
just one more comment – using the beta now and is working fine 🙂
Thanks for these kind words! I try to do my best, but since I’m not a developer, I try to do as much as I can with my limited knowledge.
And does not hesitate to share your comments and desires; the plugin does more or less what I want. Since then, only users can still improve it.
Great to hear that! Plugin is (partially) translated to spanish & brazilian only, entireley in french, which is not enough. If you find the courage to translate it both in bulgarian and czech, it would be really nice. A huge work, though…
Unfortunately, the plugin is using IMDb libraries which cannot handle day and month. I’ll ask to the developer if he can improve this limitation.
Thanks for the feedback. It will allow me to release the new version next days. Still working on help section, but after that, I’m done.
UM>>>>> I’m not getting any photos from the IMDB site.. Any specific reason.. Or some kind of remedy or easy fix for the troubleshoot?
hey mate, this is a great plugins, really awesome
this is bad to only have genre as taxonomies, do you able to add option to taxonomy actors, director,….
as suggestion add a check box to # What to display (in admin panel) to let admin check which one go Taxonomy not only genres.
Great idea! I’ll try to implement that in next release.
Very nice plugin.
Just one question : is it possible to retrieve “Release Date” from IMDB
thanks
Next release will include a release date movie detail.
You may already test this new feature downloading beta release 2.0.2, from wordpress website.
this what happen sorry about before
Error message (when trying adding a post) btw it posts
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent in /home/fswarez/domains/fswarez.org/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 890
It could be related to a IIS bug : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q176113/
But also to a plugin conflict. Try to unactivate every plugin (but IMDb link transformer) until you don’t get this message anymore. Once the plugin in conflict is identified, give me its name and I’ll look into to see if I can find a workaround.
i’m faing this problem since i installed the plugin
and the problem… is?
Hi, the plugin is really good, but I can not find a way to put the link for the picture so I could read that field later for my homepage ( I don’t want to have the picture within the post ( in the post there should be only information for the movie that I could get from the widget ).
If you’re using the plugin’s cache, you’ll be able to find all the previously viewed imdb posters in your wp-contents/imdb/images folder. Each poster is named according to its imdb id. eg. 0417741.jpg.
With this in mind, you can use the default custom field “imdb-movie-widget-bymid” to display the poster. As long as the custom field has a valid value, you can use this code anywhere within the loop to display the poster for the relevant post:
—
ID, ‘imdb-movie-widget-bymid’, true); ?>
—
I hope that makes sense!
I use this all over my film review website, http://www.cutprintreview.com.
If i’m working outside the loop, I use the get_posts template tags to call the relevant posts from a specific category.
See here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
Whoops, the code wouldn’t show correctly in my last comment. Here it is without brackets.
Custom field call in php:
php $movieid = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘imdb-movie-widget-bymid’, true);
Display the poster image in html:
img src=”/wp-content/imdb/images/’.$movieid.’.jpg”
Nice one, Anders 🙂
Well, you’re better linking imdb’s picture…
That’s what I want, but how I get the picture on the home page?
Well, assuming you want to display a picture for 2001 A space Odyssey, you pay a visit to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/ and look for the picture you want, which either you link or download…
Hi, nice plugin!
i was asking myself just one question: is it possibile to choose from wich localized version of IMBD retrieve information or it just takes it from the .com imdb?
I havo to built a site for an italian Movie Teathre and I would like to catch informations about the films from IMDB.it, because infos are in italian.
Last thing, if i will use this plug in i will be surely available for an italian translation of it.
Ciao bluantinoo,
Theoretically, it should work switching “General Options -> Advanced -> Imdb address” to “italian IMDb”.
But actually, it doesn’t work as expected… Only (very) basic information is retrieved.
I’ll have a look on it, and let you know if I find something.
Feel you free to translate the plugin into italian 🙂
Well, after debating with Izzy (imdbphp libraries makers), localized imdb sites doesn’t allow to retrieve expected imdb informations. Changing this behaviour will need a complete rewriting of the libraries, what he’s not going to do.
Sorry.
On my popup it stopped showing images and it just says photo not available is there any way to fix that?
Could be related to this known issue :
Hi,
This is an amazing plugin, but I have one request.
I use the plugin’s external call feature and would like to be able to use the IMDb ID instead of the film name to call a film. This would allow for better accuracy (which has been a problem with the name search).
Could this be added into a future release?
Thank you,
Anders.
Hi Anders,
By “I use the plugin’s external call feature”, you mean you use imdb_external_call function, I presume. If it is, you can write your function this way :
$imdblt->imdb_external_call(”, ‘external’, ‘IMDb ID’)
Never tested this way, but it should work.
Thanks for the quick reply Jcv!
Unfortunately though, that trick doesn’t seem to work. The PHP isn’t broken, but the plugin does return this error:
“Sorry, no result found for this reference”
It doesn’t matter what ID I place in there, the error persists. I’ve made sure the ID’s are entered correctly without the “tt”, e.g.1325004
Here is an example page with the error (look beneath the thumbnail pic on the right): http://cutprintreview.com/reviews/2-stars/the-twilight-saga-eclipse-his-review/
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Anders
The new file worked perfectly. Thank you!
The reason I do not use the shortcut tags is because the plugin is not being displayed inside the loop (although it may look like it is). It’s actually called externally in the single.php and a custom field is feeding the IMDB id of the relevant movie into it. This saves me some time since these IMDb id’s are reproduced in many instances around the website.
Thanks again for your help Jcv. You usually have to pay for support that quick and helpful! Your plugin is easily the most valued I have on my film review website. I’m planning on getting a Paypal account soon and would be glad to donate something to you for all your effort.
Cheers,
Anders.
I’m not sure I understand why you use imdb_external_call() function instead the ready-made one ( (imdltid) imdbid (/imdltid) ) BUT there was a bug indeed. A corrected release is available on
https://www.jcvignoli.com/blog/wp-content/files/imdb-link-transformer.php-201
Replace your own imdb-link-transformer.php with this one, and report if it works 🙂
Glad to read that!
I don’t want to discourage a so great generosity 🙂 but I have to admit I enjoy myself so much form the open source community… My great pleasure is to know you find the plugin useful!
BTW, next release will integrate last modifications, and when you’ll update you’ll (you should) enjoy same functionalities.
I use auto-post plugin with template [im]xx[/] …..
I was wondering how I could extract the Genre so I could use it after that as keyword and sort the post in category by category
I thought many times about this functionnality.
Unfortunately, it would require a lot of development time, a spare time I don’t have :/
yeah I understand,
then if I make some other widget template that has only the genre, how I could import the text to custom field
that should be easy, but well I am not that good in coding
Well, it’s not that easy, as movie’s information are not written in the post itself, but generated instead.
It should be possible if using inc/imdb-movie.inc.php file, genre part; report that very part on your widget, and voilà 🙂
Next release will include a new Genre’s use. Using wordpress’ taxonomy, one should be able to use movie’s categories as tags/taxonomies.
Hope you’ll find usefull.
🙂 great looking forward to the new version 🙂
Hi,
is there a way to stop google from crawling this plugin? google has been crawling the plugin and saying page not found.
Using a robots.txt file ?
Les images s’affichent pas!
The images won’t display!
The more I try, le moins ca marche…
In Debug mode I get:
imdbsearch::results() called. Using URL http://akas.imdb.com/find?q=The+Omega+Man;mx=20;more=tt;nr=1&restrict=Movies+only&GO.x=0&GO.y=0&GO=search;tt=1;tt=on
Is this a common problem? I already tried playing with options and creating the cache file, but it just won’t display anything else but a placeholder thumbnail or an image title.
I know IMDb tries to protect its image more these days: no right click, etc…
De l’aide s’il vous plais.
Try to load your page first with Internet explorer. This is a new issue, reported a few days ago to the imdbphp libraries author.
Let’s see if it can be modified…
Lol !!! the tag i said was “!more”.
There is no way to achieve that :/
Don’t put the 2 letters “t” before the number and will be okey …
And now my problem :
i want to hide the description of the movie after the movie pics in the index page but i dunno where to put the tag “” … can someone help me please ?? thx.
Salut !!!
Je vient d’installer la version 1.6 sur mon wordpress et quand je test un post avec par exemple [imdbltid]tt0369339[/imdbltid] , bin sa ne marche pas , j’ai une cover marquer “no photo avaible” et avec aucune dexcription ni rien …
Si je pouvait avoir de l’aide svp ?? Merci d’avance.
wordpress version 2.9.2
Fresh install.
Hey there, first of thank you for your work, this is an amazing plugin, it’s so good that I’m amaze it is free.
I would like to ask you if there is any way (easy way) to create a page for a person/actor like it creates for the movie.
Hello,
My widget is causing errors all of a sudden. It was working fine a couple days ago. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but can not get it to fix the problem.
It shows like this:
Fatal error: Call to a member function imdbid() on a non-object in /home/richyws/public_html/thevideostop.com/wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/inc/imdb-movie.inc.php on line 52
Example: http://thevideostop.com/movies/cah-trailer/
Look at the right for the widget.
Any ideas ? Thanks for a great plugin!
Hi,
I think as plugin suddenly stopped working it is related to a plugin conflict. Try to unactivate last plugin(s) installed.
Look if it makes any difference.
Hi, Thanks for the quick reply.
The plugin stopped working without any additional plugin being installed. It was the most recent plugin to be added.
It worked for at least a week and then just stopped for no reason.
That’s strange. A plugin shouldn’t just suddenly work, if it previously used to work.
1/ Did you update wordpress ? What wordpress do you use?
2/ What imdb link transformer release do you use?
3/ What php version is installed?
4/ What value is inserted into customized field? If “imdb-movie-widget”, what movie’s name exactly did you add? If “imdb-movie-widget-bymid”, what movie’s id did you exactly add?
Also, would you kindly test with the next plugin release http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/imdb-link-transformer.zip to check if this wrong behaviour is still there?
I just tried upgrading, and I get the same result. The plugin works fine if you give it an ID, but it produces the “non-object” error if you give it a title. The problem seems to be that the search for a name produces no result, so in imdb-movie.inc.php, $results[$nbarrayresult] gets set to “”, which causes the error when $midPremierResultat gets set. If I test for “” right before $midPremierResultat gets set and manually set it to “0034583”, it displays Casablanca instead of the error.
If feels to me like the call to the IMDb function just isn’t working for title calls (an IMDb problem, not a problem with the plugin). But it works for other people, I suppose it must be something else.
That’s also my guess. But since I can’t reproduce this bug on my side, I really need someone answer my 3 other questions from point 72.1.2…
1/ Did you update wordpress ? What wordpress do you use?
I updated WordPress to 2.9.2 when it came out a few weeks ago.
2/ What imdb link transformer release do you use?
I’m using 1.1.14.1, which I’ve modified to display differently and which has worked very well up until March 15. But I’ve tried 1.5 without modifications and get the same results.
3/ What php version is installed?
Zarban.com is hosted by GoDaddy on a Linux server with PHP v5.x. It uses 1 MySQL database v5.0. I’m at 64% of my space allotment and just 1% of my traffic allotment.
4/ What value is inserted into customized field? If “imdb-movie-widgetâ€, what movie’s name exactly did you add? If “imdb-movie-widget-bymidâ€, what movie’s id did you exactly add?
Every post on my site is a film, so I’ve looked at numerous examples.
Using “imdb-movie-widget-bymid” seems to work for most films, but for a few, I get a blank image and “-1” as the title, such as “0046876” (Creature from the Black Lagoon). However, in my modified version of the plugin, I have the title and image link to the IMDb page (using “$movie->imdbid()”) and that link works, even tho the title is displayed as “-1”.
Using “imdb-movie-widget” seems NOT to work for any film (“The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)”, for example). Currently, I have the plugin check to see if the search result is blank and, if it is, replace it with the ID for Casablanca. At least that way my pages aren’t broken. If I remove the check, it returns the error again for all entries that use “imdb-movie-widget”. You can see exactly what text is in the “imdb-movie-widget” field: it’s displayed on each page as the text of the “Listed under” link.
I’m starting to wonder my hosting provider upgraded the PHP or Linux or something on my server and that caused the issue.
When I read you’re using version 1.1.14.1 (7 months old!), I thought I had found the culprit. But to my great amazement, such an old release still works on my side.
I can’t see any issue in your specifications. I hardly can believe that a php/mysql update could broke that way the plugin. Especially when doing a google search shows me many websites having same error…
1. I’m wondering how do you use cache; is it indeed activated? If yes, how much time (what preferences’ value) do you keep it? Issue could be a imdb’s ban consequence. I’ve never been banned (even if I do extensively my plugin tests on my own website) but some time ago, someone complained about having been banned from IMDb; it could be an answer, since you don’t get any result anymore when you use search function.
2. Try last beta plugin release (follow the link I previously gave), which is almost done (and broadly tested). It already implements many of modifications you need (remove all links, select order to display) and it allows to get rid of imdb if wished. You’ll only have to ask for an ID to Moviepilot, but you could definitely resolve the question of beeing banned (or not) from IMDb.
I started to wonder about the cache earlier today and tried deleting some files that seemed unnecessary (I don’t display plot details, for example). This had no effect, but just now I turned off the “Use cache?” function, and immediately every entry works again.
Re: upgrades. I’ve been watching the change log to decide when to upgrade to the latest version and move my modifications to that one.
I’ve modified the plugin to automatically create an “imdb-movie-widget” entry based on the category of the post (my categories are film titles; I manually create an “imdb-movie-widget” or “imdb-movie-widget-bymid” entry only when the automatic method calls up the wrong movie.) I also reformat and abbreviate the actor and director credits, put a frame around the poster, and link the title and poster to the appropriate IMDb page.
I really love this plugin. It’s absolutely one of the best parts of my site.
Turning off “Use cache” did the trick? Great, I’ll add this workaround to the FAQs. I’m happy to know you got the plugin to work again 🙂
1. But could you say me if you turn on “Use cache” again, if it doesn’t work again? And also what are the cache’s preferences you have? Please, give me these answers, to allows me to update FAQs.
(For your information: a lot of work has been done regarding cache in the last releases, with many new options and new ways to handle it. Among them, you can delete cache from admin interface.)
2. I’m also open to implement new functions according to user needs. I can already say last release fulfill some of your needs:
a/ A poster’s frame could be added to last releases, very easily: a customized css file can be added in you theme folder, and that very css would be called before the “official” one. This way, you may maintain your customized style preferences, even through plugin updates!
b/ You can get rid of every link automatically added to actor, director (the link which opens a popup). An option removes every internal link.
c/ You can select what movie’s detail (actor, director, user comment) add and remove. You also can choose the display’s order (actor first, poster in second, …)
Additionnaly, I could add an option which would add automatically a widget linked to the post’s title. That would be quite easy, since it was the first way the plugin used to work 🙂 Just send me the modification you made to the code, and I will implement it.
However, I don’t think (but I could be wrong) credits’ abbreviation and link to IMDb would fit wide users needs. I think that’s too much specific, and don’t think to implement it.
Anyway, that’s great you got the plugin working again. And thanks for you kind comment 🙂
Yes, resetting “Use cache?” to Yes still allows the plugin to work.
“Store cache?” Yes
“Use cache?” Yes
“Cache expire” 2592000
“Convert to ZIP” Yes
“Use ZIP” Yes
However, I realize now that I also changed the IMDb address from “us.imdb.com” to “akas.imdb.com”. When I switch back to “us.imdb.com”, the plugin does not work again.
Perhaps my site got banned from us.imdb.com for overuse? I get about 400 page views a day, and all the post pages use the IMDb plugin.
Your new features sound great. I’ll try upgrading again and modifying the new version for my needs; it shouldn’t take much.
I find that linking the poster image and movie title to the IMDb entry is one of the best things about my implementation. It lets me jump to IMDb for more detailed cast info and so on. But I think few people would need the plugin to guess the movie from the post or category title, the way I use it. And abbreviating the roles was just my way of making the data fit better. I got annoyed seeing “Lieutenant Able” and “Detective Baker” in the credits, so I make them “Lt. Able” and “Det. Baker”. I also skip the director when there are more than 3, so TV shows don’t show a giant list.
I’ll send you my code and you can take or leave what you think others might like.
I have the same problem. On March 15, it worked fine. On March 16, it started producing the above error, but only for name searches (imdb-movie-widget). ID searches (imdb-movie-widget-bymid) are generally fine.
I’m sure I didn’t change or upgrade anything or install any new plugin. I tried installing an older version but the result was the same. I have not tried installing the new version yet because I have modified the code to display differently.
Zarban, THANK YOU! Changing the URL from “us.imdb.com” to “akas.imdb.com” FIXED THE PROBLEM! You’re AWESOME! Thank you thank you thank you!
Hi,
I’m having a problem with this plugin in the fact that the ‘imdb’ folder is always getting deleted from the server. I’m using Wp-supercache which could be conflicting but i’m not sure. Could anyone help explain what’s going on?
Thanks
Ahh I can just change where the cache is stored. Problem solved =P
Hi,
I really like this plugin and I’m using it on a book reviews blog to give also data about those movies related to books.
I updated the plugin yesterday using the automatic update in the plugin menu, but when I try to re-activate I get this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONST, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/sites/amazingreaders.net/public_html/wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/config.php on line 414
Is there something I can do to fix the problem?
Thanks!
Ciao Alessia, un altro lettore di Mishima qua 🙂
You certainly use a PHP version prior to v5.
Remove the entire line 414, which should look like that:
and report if it fixed your issue. I will adapt next version if it does.
Hi, sorry for my long silence.
I looked everywhere in you plugin files to find the line you mentioned, but I couldn’t find it. Could you please tell me which file I should edit?
Sorry but I don’t know PHP very much^^;;
A quick new release, still at beta stage since I’ve not been able to go through my usual quality process completly:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/imdb-link-transformer.zip
It should correct many issues, especially the ones related to missing datas. This release already uses next libraries developed by Izzy, which will be a major change to the plugin. But Izzy seems currently very busy (as I am), so I release “as it” the beta plugin.
Don’t expect a quick new release, except if “easy” bugs are found 🙂
hello, i tried to install this plugin but whenever i try to get to the options page i see this message
“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
If i upload it on a live website it gets activated and works fine. The problem is on a local installation.
I tried it on one that has many other successfully installed plugins and this is the only one i get this message!!!
any workaround?? tia
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So, are you planning on fixing this to work with wordpress, or not?
Currently, this does nothing but give errors when the tag [imdblt] is used!!!
Hi,
Some previous issues you mentionned are fixed in development release.
Shamefully, I don’t have enough spare time to finish that very release right now.
However, tag [imdlt] should work; I’ve not been able to reproduce the same (wrong) behaviour on my side…
Sorry, but can’t manage right now either to implement new fonctions or go into debug process 🙁
I guess that just because YOU can’t reproduce the error means nobody else can, right? WRONG! The error is there!
On further investigation, YOUR ADDON caused my ip address to be blocked by IMDB. Yup, that’s right, blocked. So, your addon does not process information properly, and when no results are returned, does not PROPERLY identify this.
Why was the ip blocked? Too many connections, which means your plugin was not caching things properly. Better yet, your plugin did not NOTIFY individuals of this problem, merely threw out a php error which kills the page itself.
Learn to program properly, NEVER assume anything is given, and ALWAYS give an error if something doesn’t exist, INSTEAD of forcing php to kill the page!
I never wrote that because I couldn’t reproduce the error, there was no error. I wrote I don’t have time to “go into debug process”.
If you are not pleased with my plugin, I don’t give a shit, that’s something I mainly develop for myself, and certainly not to get that kind of rude comment.
Delete my plugin from you blog and never come again. Thanks.
Hi, I’m trying to call the function into my side bar and all that I get is:
Fatal error: Call to a member function imdbid() on a non-object in /home/…/wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/inc/imdb-movie.inc.php on line 52
(i just replaced here the full path with “…”)
I use
or – in both ways I get the same error message. My function file is a bit strange to me but as I am not familiar with php, here it is the whole file:
post->ID;
$imdballmeta = get_post_meta($filmid, ‘imdb-movie-widget-bymid’, false);
echo “”;
include (‘wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/inc/imdb-movie.inc.php’);
echo “”;
}
I also tried adding “?>” at the end of the file but this didn’t change the message. I tried calling the function in the sidebar file and in the single post file – the same message.
Thank you.
I realise that no all of the lines appear in my previous post however, the error message text that I get is full. if you need more, please let me know.
The function file looks like:
<< ? php (here i put some extra space and post->ID;
$imdballmeta = get_post_meta($filmid, ‘imdb-movie-widget-bymid’, false);
echo “”;
include (‘wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/inc/imdb-movie.inc.php’);
echo “”; (also extra space but i remove it in the file)
}
i will try again:
after the opening post->ID;
$imdballmeta = get_post_meta($filmid, ‘imdb-movie-widget-bymid’, false);
echo “”;
include (‘wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/inc/imdb-movie.inc.php’);
echo “”;
}
for calling the functiion I used :
external_imdb (); or imdb_external_call();
in php tag
anyway to use your shortcode withing a template?
What exactly do you mean by within a template?
The plugin can be included both in sidebar and a post. This latter is achieved by including the movie’s name [ imdblt][ /imdblt] tags.
Let me know if it fullfills your needs.
Well if you check out jeffwithag.com/misc/ you will see Movies and Movie Library. Movies is a page with me manually including each movie surrounded by shortcodes < ! --imdb--> and < ! --/imdb-->. Works as expected. Movie Library is a template which queries my database and automatically outputs the movie titles. I am trying to add your shortcodes around the move title value, but so far no success.
I believe I either need to know what function to call or I need to know the format of your plugin within a “do_shortcode(‘shortcodename’)” call.
To clarify, I just want to surround each movie name queried with your plugin shortcode so that any movie in the list can be clicked and a popup would be shown.
Any direction would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Geoff
Clarification:
I’ve utilize the following imdb shortcodes for awhile now.
via a manually updated page. http://jeffwithag.com/misc/my-movies/
It works perfectly!
Now recently I’ve decided to move my movie list into the database and query them. To query them I created a new template page and than wrote the logic to query and display them. http://jeffwithag.com/misc/movie-library/
It works perfectly!
Next, I tried inserting the imdb shortcode (for the popup windows) around my extracted moviename from the database, so that the movies listed on that second url will support your imdb popups like the movies listed on the first url does.
No such luck. See link for more details.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/341295?replies=8
Hope that better explains my scenario.
Thanks,
Geoff
I’ve not very much time to put in that, but had you checked the result for “$mymovie->name” ? Because the name is not the right parameter, instead it is the imdb ID number.
Also, you shouldn’t call (if I remember right) imdb_external_call with an “echo”; it should display by itself data.
To help you more deeply, I should go into a debugging process, which I cannot go through right now… :/
Yeah, I haven’t had much time to look through this either. Work and Christmas has been keeping me busy.
You stated,
Your shortcode takes the movie name given correct? And then somehow finds the imdb movie id number, to pull up all the related info? I mean your shortcode works fine in a post or page when I use it to surround a movie name. But outside of a page/post content (in a template) I believe I need to call the function directly. I mean I think I need to locate your shortcode assignment, and call the function it references. Again, these are just assumptions, this is new territory to me. When I get more time I’ll take another look and if I figure it out, I’ll post my solution.
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Geoff
Actually, it looks like a bit more than just the plot is missing from the thing when using proper formatting (again, popups not proper format):
* Quote(s):
* Plot(s):
* Goof(s):
* Tagline(s):
This is an absolutely great plugin, but with a few problems.
Firstly, this does not get the ‘plot’ from IMDB at all (yes, it’s enabled, and yes, I’ve cleared the cache), regardless of whether the movie (or show) has a plot in it. Instead it just returns “Plot(s):”, nothing more.
Secondly, an air date (or release date) would be great to add to this plugin.
Everything else looks great, but that first problem is pretty bad.
The plot is actually working; I still have checked, it does work! Please check on imdb website if there is a plot available for movie(s) you want to display plots’. If it is the case, please give me the movies’ names, I’ll try on my own.
Air date? Why not, I’ll think about it 🙂
No, it is not working. See the following:
http://www.tvonthebrain.com/attempt01.jpg
http://www.tvonthebrain.com/attempt02.jpg
This may work in the horrible ajax environment but does NOT work in a real environment. Why should users have to click multiple links to get the information they requested?
Well, can’t reproduce your issue on my own.
Regarding “The Vampire Diaries”, there is no issue at all; if you check imdb website, you’ll see there isn’t any plot summary. IMDb link transformer cannot get what doesn’t exist.
But regarding “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”, a plot exists, as weel as quotes, goofs, taglines. Since then, it should actually display these informations… and it certainly does :
https://www.jcvignoli.com/blog/wp-content/files/imdblt-testplot.jpg
What IMDb plugin release do you use? How do you display your movie (I mean, what name do you enter exactly inside (imdblt)(/imdblt) tags)? When you write you cleared the cache, did you clear the entire cache, or only part of it?
I don’t think it could be a plugin collision issue (since parts of information is displayed), I hardly see what it could be… except for movies which doesn’t provide information you want, it should display them!
RE: Vampire Diaries
The plot is most definitely there, see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1524499/ . It’s even pulled from the database (see http://www.tvonthebrain.com//wp-content/cache/imdb/test.html) , but it’s NOT put into the system ( see http://www.tvonthebrain.com/new-shows/3177-the-vampire-diaries-1×07-haunted.html)
I know the information is there, your plugin is pulling the information from IMDB, but your plugin is NOT putting said information into the actual post!
Please do feel free to delete those links after visiting them. My intention is not to advertise here, but to point out the problem with the product .
I still think this is a great product, but there are undeniable bugs here. As far as how I’m calling the plugin? Very simple. Using(again) the vampire diaries as an example:
[imdblt]tt1524499[/imdblt]
http://www.tvonthebrain.com//wp-content/cache/imdb/plot.html should be the second link, sorry, forgot I moved that. This shows that the plot information is definitely being carried over from the example (again, using Vampire Diaries), but it’s not actually putting it in the system.
As for the comments re: ajax, they speak for themselves. When a user clicks on a link for something, the user shouldn’t have to click anywhere else for it. That is just wrong.
The ajax example merely links to a title where you have to click, then click on the section you want, as opposed to just doing what you’re supposed to be doing in the first place, and displaying the requested information.
OK, you’re right. Was looking on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405406/, which doesn’t include any plot summary on its page.
Making the test with tt1524499 actually does work… on my side.
First link is not found (404).
And again… what imdb link transformer release do you use?
What exactly are you talking about?
Hi, after activating the plugin, I am not able to see the same on settings.How do I configure it ?Is there any way I can display it on the page ?
Thanks
Please, be more specific. What exactly don’t you see in settings? What do yo mean by you’re not able to see “the same”: do you see an IMDb menu, though, but incomplete? If incomplete, what does it miss? Also, if after activation, you cannot access imdb settings at all, provide complete plugins activated list (should be an incompatibility issue).
And… what do you want to display on the page? Widget? Into the post? Yes, for both of them.
can work script without wordpress? ,
Sure! They are originally php libraries independent from WordPress, therefore…
Check IMDbphp homepage: http://projects.izzysoft.de/trac/imdbphp
Hello,
There is something wrong with the imdb styles on this page: http://pertutti.ro/trailers/?s=chance.
Works fine on this page: http://pertutti.ro/trailers/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs-2009-trailer-2-hd.html
Any idea ?
Yes, I’ve an idea. It is related to the way WordPress handle search pages. First link is indeed a search page, a page meant to render only a small portion of the whole thing. Thus, code is simplified, and many values aren’t displayed.
In your search.php, replace
the_excerpt()with
the_content()You won’t have anymore a post resume displayed, but you still can split posts by adding
<!--more-->tag.Nice, it worked.
Thanks, nice job.
how can i copy only big photo URL to my custom field “bphoto” ?
Well, it depends where is your custom field…
If it is located into the widget part, unselecting all widget informations (that means selecting “no”) but “picture” (which has to stay on “yes”) should be enough.
It it is located into the post itself, use the exec-php plugin and, after putting widget options to no except the picture one (as prior solution), include the code
into the post (inside the custom field bphoto).
If the custom field is one of wordpress posts custom fields, there is no way to achieve that.
it is located in post. but i need only photos URL address. so i read all your comments in this post. and i found a solution:
i added this code in functions.php :
function external_imdb () {
global $imdb_configs_values, $wp_query;
$filmid = $wp_query->post->ID;
$imdballmeta = get_post_meta($filmid, ‘imdb-movie-widget’, false);
include ( ‘wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/inc/imdb-movie.inc2.php’ );
}
i edited “layout part” in imdb-movie.inc2.php like this :
photo_localurl( $imdb_configs_values[imdbphotosize] ) ) != FALSE){
echo $photo_url ;
} else{
echo ”;
} ?>
and i used photo slide in my home.php, so i used
<img src="” alt=”” style=”border: none;” width=”155px” height=”123px” /> for every post’s photo.
but i have a little problem, it is the same for every post in “photo slide show”. how can i fix it, or have you got a another solution ???
my site : http://www.vizyonkolik.com
What is the “little problem”? Can’t see what’s your issue. If by “it is the same for every post” you mean that pictures *size* are identical for every post, just remove width and height values from img tag?
Kuif,
Please try new development release and kindly report your experience.
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/imdb-link-transformer.zip
hi thanks..
I just tried it, deleted the old one, deleted my cache… but i dont get the point of this new development release? it’s exactly the same? same small unreadable poster…
what is diferent on this release?
ok found “Whether to display the thumbnail or the large image cover”….
but all I get is just the tiny thumbnail…
yes i switched it to “no”
But i still see that unreadable thumbnail, not the large picture.
I use the plugin inside the post
Did you select “Display only thumbnail” to “No”?
I can’t reproduce your issue. I tried with cloverfield movie, and everything works perfectly…
Do you use the plugin via the widget or do you enclose it inside a post?
I need more information:
1/ What are the plugins you use? Have you tried to deactivate them? Don’t see how it could be in conflict, but who knows?
2/ If you check /wp-content/cache/imdb/images folder, do you find files named XXXXX.jpg and others XXXXX_big.jpg?
3/ Check you css theme properties. It could happen you had a property restraining the size of the picture.
4/ If instead of using the plugin inside the post, you use the widget, do you notice the same behaviour?
5/ Do you use Exec-PHP plugin? 4.9 release?
6/ BTW, could you post your website adress? I could straightly verify the code.
it just doesnt work!
1/ What are the plugins you use? Have you tried to deactivate them? Don’t see how it could be in conflict, but who knows?
==>> i deactivaded ALL plugins, still no big poster
2/ If you check /wp-content/cache/imdb/images folder, do you find files named XXXXX.jpg and others XXXXX_big.jpg?
==> no, only xxxxx.jpg, nothing with xxxxx_big.jpg… it only loads the small posters.. thats what i’ve been saying all along
3/ Check you css theme properties. It could happen you had a property restraining the size of the picture.
==> my css is fine, even without css, it doesnt even get the large poster from imdb
4/ If instead of using the plugin inside the post, you use the widget, do you notice the same behaviour?
==>> Widget doesnt even work, but i dont care about widget, i need the inside post link, and fact is it doesnt retreive the big images, they never show up, neither in my cache
5/ Do you use Exec-PHP plugin? 4.9 release?
==>> yes
http://www.clifkijkt.nl/?p=51
==>> Widget doesnt even work, but i dont care about widget, i need the inside post link, and fact is it doesnt retreive the big images, they never show up, neither in my cache
Well, I help people that want to help me to help them. Don’t need to be so rude, man. If I ask about widget behaviour, it is to debug your issue, not to force you to use widget.
If you give me your website adress, as previously asked, I’ll maybe have a look.
Did you
?
yes i did.
but click on the blue link “quarantine”
Thats the in post imdb link; check the output of the script. In the new window, it just shows the small poster. No big-poster. And i checked the cache/images folder,.. only small poster images there. The script doesnt retreive xxxx_big.jpg’s
I think there is some misunderstanding here: the link around a movie’s name, made by <!–imdb–>nameMovie<!–/imdb–>, doesn’t need Exec-php nor imdb-movie-widget value. Acually, you use Popup function, not the integration into a post.
Ok, the bad news is I won’t make the change into the plugin, since I think is it a too specific demand (depending if more people want it, I could change my mind). The good news is modifications are quite easy to take in charge:
1/ Open inc/popup-imdb_movie.php and change
$movie->photo_localurl()
by
$movie->photo_localurl($imdb_configs_values[imdbphotosize])
2/ Open inc/popup-imdb_person.php and change
$movie->photo_localurl()
by
$movie->photo_localurl($imdb_configs_values[imdbphotosize])
3/ Be sure to have selected the “Display only thumbnail” to “No”
It should do the trick.
actually, if it works i will need to use the in post integration because all i need is the big poster to show as image in the post…
so how to tweak to the script to have it work with an in posst integration, displaying the big poster?
Hi Kuif,
Just asked to Izzy (librairies author) if it would be possible.
I’ll let you know about his answer.
Hi!
Thanks for this plugin!
Question:
Your script gets the movie poster,.. but its actually the small (almost unreadable!) movie poster on the movie-pages at imdb.
But I actually need the script to get the normal sized (readable) poster, wich you get when you click on imdb’s small movie poster… for example:
I need this one: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3062796288/tt1060277
in stead of this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/
How to make this possible?
Please help, thanks in advance
Slav: could you provide your webadress?
Chris: If this is a wordpress page, it *could* work; try to include the movie name into imdb tags, that is
<!--imdb-->nameMovie<!--/imdb-->Hi again =) Thanks for the quick reply and great work.
Just a quick question, I don’t use the widget at the moment I have a page with all the Blu-Ray’s I own in a list style format. Is there a way to make the feature work within the tags?
Thanks for all your help in advance
Great idea and nice plig in.I really like it and would be happy if I could install it on my blog/site. Is there any requirement about the width of the side bar? I use template theme with left and right sidebars which are not that wide – the widget didn’t work. I changed the theme to such with one side bar-ther it works..or there is something else in the code of the side bar?Actually, after I put the widget I have to build my side bar because nothing from the one in the theme template is left /i.e. sidebar.php looks like is not “called”…
Chris, I get an answer from Izzy: there is a bug (actually, it is more a malfunction). But since the bug is on the IMDb side, Izzy could not do anything.
However: I released a new plugin version, which should help you to bypass this issue. Instead of using “imdb-movie-widget” key, use “imdb-movie-widget-bymid” and put in the value field the imdb id (you can get from the adress bar when you look for a movie on imdb website. IE, for Cass, imdb id is “0954981”). For more information, please look at readme file included.
Download the beta release from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/imdb-link-transformer.1.1.13.5.zip and report any bug you may encounter. Report also if it works 🙂
Hi Chris,
This is undoubtedly a bug. I’m going to contact Izzy (imdb classes’ author).
Stay tuned (even if holidays will slow up the debug process)
Great script!
Just one thing though when I link a movie such as Cass which is a british movie it comes up with Casino Royale is there anyway to input the link manually?
Great plugin,thanks for sharing.i will use it for my new movie site…again thanks…
Hello,
Good plugin, but I am wondering how to prevent the widget showing up in the sidebar on pages. For example, it appears on my About page, my Contact page and my Tags page.
Thank you.
Goog plugin, very helpful and easy to use, thanks.
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Nice plugin, works great, thanks.
pr3view:great!
Evan: are you sure a plot exists? Check on imdb if a plot has been inserted.
blandine: it is a known issue (check the faqs), for which there was no (yet) solution. Look for release 1.0, which should be released in a matter of hours.
Download release 0.9.5 again;
Remove completely previous release;
Upload new plugin to your server;
Click on “reset setting”.
Does it change anything?
I found the option to show the plot but it’s not showing up inside of the post. “Plot” is now listed in the post but that’s it.
Hi,
It works fine for me but it’s not showing all the contents from IMDB.
I mean, if I click on crew from a movie, then it shows only the producers, director and writer, not the whole list.
another example, for an actress, it shows her name, date of birth but then her movies are not showing. Is there a way to fix this?
Hi Psykotik, just updated to 0.9.5. Now rating is displayed in the widget. Thanks again for this fast bugfix!
Did you go to “widget options”? You should find this new option almost at the page bottom.
evan and pr3view, please update to last version (0.9.5) and report if everything’s working.
I’m sorry, I don’t see anything….
Evan: is there anyway to include the plot?
Not yet. Sound quite huge text to include into the widget, doesn’t it? Do you see a practical use?
pr3view: rating not working
Thanks for the report. It looks like rating function is bugged. I’m trying to sort how to patch that. The issue is no data is returned. Stay tuned.
Thanks, I updated to 0.9.5 however; I do not see any options about including a plot or not.
Hi Psykotik,
thanks for your fast reply. I also tried to look through the source code and classes but didnt found anything that would cause the problem. But I´m no programming expert 😉
I hope you´ll find a fix for this bug soon, cause the rating is the most important thing for us 😉
greetings!
I am using the plugin to show up inside of posts… using the php plugin….
Again me,
i just checked every settings. In the Widgets-Config “Rating” is set to “Yes”. But i checked the config.php now and it said:
“‘imdbwidgetrating’ => false,”
I changed this value to “true” but still the rating isnt displayed in the widget.
Im using v.0.9.3 of your Plugin.
Thank you for support.
Hi, nice Plugin, but it doesn´t show the imdb rating in the widget. Do you have any Idea why?
I´m using WordPress 2.7.
Just look here, it doesnt show rating: http://dvd-preview.org/?p=14
is there anyway to include the plot?
comment #21 – it worked, just need to modify the heck out of the css.
ok you can forget my previous message. I finally solved the problem. For people who might have the same one, I had to edit the config.php file. and add the /wordpress to the line ‘imdbplugindirectory’.
I had to do it on my computer own text editing and then upload the file. When I tried to do it from my webserver text editing, it was also saying saved but in fact it wasn’t.
#————————————————–=[ Basic ]=–
‘blog_adress’ => get_bloginfo(‘url’),
‘imdbplugindirectory’ => get_bloginfo(‘url’).’/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/’,
‘imdbwebsite’ => “akas.imdb.com”,
‘imdbcachedir’ => ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/cache/imdb/’,
‘imdbphotoroot’ => get_bloginfo(‘siteurl’).’/wordpress/wp-content/cache/imdb/images/’,
‘imdbphotodir’ => ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/cache/imdb/images/’,
Hi, I installed your plugin but it doesn’t work. I think it comes from the fact that I cannot change the URL in the IMDB settings. I can change them all EXEPT the one where it’s asking where the plugin is installed. It is in …wordpress/wp-content/plugins
but everytime I change it and save it, it says “saved” but when I check it isn’t changed. All the others have worked out.
so I tried to move the plugin to the default URL (…/wp-content/plugins but it doesn’t work. Everything will work, but when you click on the link, the pop up window shows nothing at all.
You can check it out here http://onsetonair.com/s-z
Hope you can help.
tks
Hi Psykotik,
Thanks for your response. To double-check I reactivated your plugin, and sure enough both the index and single pages are having their link styles (and possibly attributes?) altered by the plugin.
The plugin affects the tags by centering them and changes ALL a:hover on the site to DD6900. I suspected the plugin may have called to an opposite .css file that you included that overrides my site’s css for link values but haven’t had a chance to check through your plugin files yet (extremely busy).
For ‘permalink problem’, I mean since installing the plugin and removing it the site’s normal content page urls have not indexed by GOogle. It’s a very decently ranked site, so it’s not the fact that it doesn’t get regularly crawled.
I was curious if your plugin attempts to set a ‘no-follow’ or another method for IMDB links? If so, that could create a problem as it is definitely already affecting link color and structure.
Look forward to your response. Thanks.
No, it doesn’t alter any kind of file. If WordPress would allowed such kind of behaviour, it will be a serious security breach!
Could you describe more precisely what you mean by your “site permalinks now also do not index correctly within Google”? Google index what he sees, and sometimes uses an site index (when provided). But if your permalinks are working when you browse your website, it should be indexed by Google. Don’t think I could be of any use, there…
From the readme :
“check also /css/imdb.css if you want to customize default theme.”
Therefore, inside this very file, change according your tastes (or remove) the part :
a:hover {
color: #dd6900;
/* text-decoration: underline;*/
text-decoration: none;
}
More about CSS : Cascading Style Sheets
Nice plugin, but when I installed it affected the CSS on my homepage. Immediately all title link attributes were switched () and switched to an orange font on hover, as well as aligned text center.
What causes this behavior? Why does this plugin modify these things?
After removing the plugin, style returned to how it should be BUT my site permalinks now also do not index correctly within Google.
Does this IMDB plugin alter any files that we should know about?
Thanks in advance for answering these questions.
Evan,
It should be possible to achieve that if you
1/ install an executable php plugin (like this one)
2/ put inside your post the function imdb_external_call() (and by adding imdb-movie-widget field, of course).
3/ Modifying imdb.css according to your wishes
Though, I never tried by myself. If you succeed, please report!
Is there anyway to list the imdb info inside of a post instead of in the sidebar?
Jenn, code you enter is invalid. You must use
<!--imdb-->nameMovie<!--/imdb-->In other words, you have to double hyphens.
But… let’s say… why don’t you use the button installed by the plugin, in your panel writing area? It will automatically insert the good code, don’t hesitate to use it!
I deactivated all the plugins with the exception of this one and it still didn’t work. Am I entering the code correctly? I will put a screen shot picture in the URL section of this comment so you can see.
Jenn, try this: unactivate all plugins but Imdb, and look if it works. If it does, activate one by one the plugins, until detecting the culprit.
Let me know about results.
Yes, I put the tags around the movie name and nothing happens. I am using WordPress 2.7 and the following plugins:
Maintenance Mode
All in One SEO Pack
Google XML Sitemap
Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form
Spam Karma 2
Wp-Ads
Wp-Affiliate
@Jenn: When you say “I put Movie Name Here nothing happens”, do you mean you put imdb tags around the movie name or you put the movie name into “imdb-movie-widget” field?
BTW, could you list the plugins you use?
This plugin isn’t working on my blog. I am using wordpress 2.7 and when I put Movie Name Here nothing happens. It’s just the text, there’s no link. The plugin is installed and activated.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for the comment.
I don’t see the point of making a light version, as you may unactivate widget or popup by… not using them!
About your picture: it should be possible to do that if you
1/ install a executable php plugin (like this one)
2/ put inside your post the function imdb_external_call() (and by adding imdb-movie-widget field, of course).
3/ Modify imdb.css according your wishes
You did really good job my friend. Getting information from imdb is very hard work nowadays.
Is it possible to make a light version of this mod ? Without pop-up’s and widgets. Only some basic information inside of the post ? Here is a little example.
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3513/66847252uj5.jpg
Thank you for your website 🙂
I made with photoshop backgrounds for youtube, myspace and ect..
my backgrounds: (removed by admin)
Hope you had a good day and thank you again!
Or try development release, and add anywhere to your sidebar
imdb_external_call ()should do the trick.
add a function to your functions.php file in your template directory (or create one if you don’t have any)
function external_imdb () {
global $imdb_configs_values, $wp_query;
$filmid = $wp_query->post->ID;
$imdballmeta = get_post_meta($filmid, 'imdb-movie-widget', false);
echo "< div class='imdbincluded'>";
include ( 'wp-content/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/inc/imdb-movie.inc.php' );
echo "< /div>";
}
(space added to html tags, remove it)
and add somewhere in your sidebar :
external_imdb ();It should work.
Ah, it works!!! However, I’d like to add it manually to a sidebar instead of as a widget – something with the theme I am using – only the left sidebar can have widgets and the right side can not… but if I can add the imdb code to the right sidebar… that would be perfect.
Awesome, I’ll have to check it out. Being able to add two listings is key to make my site work the way I’d like it to.
BTW… I perfectly understand why you want to restore Sly’s fame, but.. Schwarzenegger’s? Does it deserve such a honor?
(found a typo on your website: his name spell “Schwarzenegger” not “Schwartzenegger”)
Hi Evan,
Let me know if this development release fulfil your wish, and please report any bug you may find.
However, be careful with adding several imdb fields in your posts; the process can badly slow down your pages… note you could install a cache plugin, to bypass this issue.
Cool plugin, now what if I wanted to list two movies using the sidebar widget? The site I run is arnoldversussly.com and I’d like to stick two movies on the sidebar when using one of our movie battles…. I added two custom fields but the second one showed up… not the first.. is this possible?
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