Movie Log
Log the movies your watch in WordPress, using IMDB.
- Registers a
movie-log/movieblock type that allows you to search for a movie title or enter an IMDB ID. - Connects to the OMDB API to fetch IMDB movie information.
- Registers a widget displaying a list of your most watched movies.
- Ties in with an existing post type and taxonomy (built-in or implemented elsewhere) to essentially make that post type a "Movie Log" post type and that taxonomy a "Genre" taxonomy. By default it uses the
postpost type and thecategorytaxonomy, which is suitable if your entire site is the movie log. The post type and taxonomy to highjack are configurable though.
Disclaimer
This is a heavily custom plugin I built for my personal movie log. I don't intend to support it other than for personal reasons (and of course if you find bugs, I'm more than happy to see issues being opened). Most importantly, use the plugin at your own risk.
Requirements
- This is a heavily procedural plugin that uses closures, variable inheritance from parent scope, and a namespace, so it requires at least PHP 5.6. I'm not gonna say I'm never going to add more modern features to it, so you should probably use the latest PHP version available.
- This requires Gutenberg, so a minimum of WordPress 5.0.
Setup
- Run
npm installandnpm run buildafter downloading the plugin or pulling the latest version from GitHub. - Obtain an OMDB API key and set it in a
MOVIE_LOG_IMDB_API_KEYconstant. - Optional steps:
- Define a
MOVIE_LOG_POST_TYPEconstant with the post type the plugin should use. For that post type, it will automatically set a block template and tie in with it in various other ways. The default value for the constant ispost. - Define a
MOVIE_LOG_GENRE_TAXONOMYconstant with the taxonomy the plugin should use for genres. The taxonomy provided must be connected to the post type set viaMOVIE_LOG_POST_TYPE. The default value for the constant iscategory.
- Define a
Extra Credit
The Webpack configuration is based on Zac Gordon's Gutenberg plugin setup.