Charlie Merland

Hi Jan,

No offense taken, and thanks for the heads up! Guess I haven’t visited the welcome forum in a while.

I’m working on a dedicated support board to handle this kind of stuff, precisely to ensure some legal basis over this; it’s taking a bit of my time though, hence my handling this here for now. I’ll put more work on it to have that up asap.

Again thanks for the tip!

Okay, seems Multinews theme does not support custom post types yet. The better solution you have right now is to hard code your own template files and add them to the theme folder; that would mean create a custom Sidebar you want to show on movie — you seem to have completed that part already — and add it to two new files, archive-movie.php and single-movie.php. The tricky part will be to figure out the ID of the sidebar, you’ll have to browse the source of the Dashboard’s Widgets page to find it. If you can provide an admin account on your website and FTP access to the server I can do it for you later today.

Hi queertownabbey,

You’re right, the plugin relies on WordPress standard way to display movies lists, and it’s lacking a shortcode to show an ‘all movies’ list. That’s planned though, at least in the form of a small additional plugin to render an alphabetically sorted list of movies, possibly with posters.

Check regularly on the plugin’s website/social networks to be sure you don’t miss that plugin when it’s out 🙂

Hi thncom,

Sorry for the lateness in response. There’s no direct, simple way to customize the movies page you’re referring to, as it is generated by WordPress and styled by your theme, that’s not per se an internal feature of the plugin. I guess you could do what you want with a bit of CSS to hide everything you don’t want to show on movies only, but that may be tedious depending on your theme.

But, and that’s a good news, this is something I plan to make possible using a small additional plugin that will add an alphabetically sorted list of movies, possibly with posters. Be sure to check regularly on the plugin’s website and/or social networks so you don’t miss the publication!

As for the styling of the listings, you can take a look at this thread’s comment on a similar question: you can add your own styles to the plugin’s element quite easily; let me know if you need more details on that part!

Try this to show the poster:

<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class('single review'); ?>>
		<?php
		if(wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_meta($post->ID, "gamepress_cover", true), 'gamecover')) {
            $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_meta($post->ID, "gamepress_cover", true), 'gamecover');
            if(has_post_thumbnail())
                $image = array(get_the_post_thumbnail());
?>
		<header>
			<img src="<?php echo $image[0]; ?>" class="cover" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
		<?php }else { ?>
		<header class="noimage">
		<?php } ?>
		<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
		<h3 class="subtitle">
			<?php if(get_post_meta($post->ID, "gamepress_intro", true)) { ?><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "gamepress_intro", true); ?><?php } ?>
		</h3>
		<div class="entry-meta">
			<?php the_time( get_option( 'date_format' ) ) ?> |
			<?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'gamepress_review_category',  __( 'Gepostet in ', 'gamepress' ),', ',' |' ) ?>
			<?php comments_popup_link(__('0 Kommentare','gamepress'), __('1 Kommentare','gamepress'), __('Kommentare: %','gamepress')); ?> |
                        Autor: <?php the_author_link(); ?>
</div>	

	</header>
	<div class="entry-content">
<table border="0" style="undefined; width: 600px" height="140">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 29px">
<col style="width: 27px">
</colgroup>
  <tr>
    <th colspan="2" bgcolor="#121212"><h4>Game Profil</h4></th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="297" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#191919"><br><b>| Publisher:</b> <?php meta('publisher'); ?> <br><b>| Developer:</b></b> <?php meta('developer'); ?><br><b>| Release:</b> <?php meta('release'); ?> <br><b>| Genre:</b></b> <?php meta('genre'); ?><br><b>| USK: <?php meta('usk'); ?><br><b>| <a href="<?php meta('hier kaufen'); ?>">Hier kaufen</a></td>
    <td width="296" bgcolor="#191919"><?php meta('picture'); ?>
</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#121212"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
	<?php the_content(); ?>
		<div class="clear"></div>

		<?php if( has_tag() ) : ?>
			<hr class="divider-dotted" />
		<?php endif; ?>

		<div class="alignleft tags"><?php the_tags( __( 'Tagged: ', 'gamepress' ), ', ', ''); ?></div>
    	<?php edit_post_link(__('Diesen Eintrag ändern','gamepress'),'<p>', '</p>'); ?>
	</div>
</article>

Hi masterticker,

Sorry to hear this, what theme are you using? Homemade? Could you provide a link to your website to take a look at the problem?

Hi flodji,

Yes you can! If you merely want to add some styling you can do it from your theme’s style.css:

/* Default movie title value when automatically showing metadata with movies */
.wpml_title_field_value,
/* Movie title value in labeled [movie_title] Shortcode  */
.wpml_movie_title_value,
/* Movie title value in unlabeled [movie_title] Shortcode */
.wpml_movie_title {
	color: grey;
	font-weight: bold;
}

For more complex modifications you can use templates with plugin version 1.2+.

When activating the plugin it tries to find any previously added movies/collections/genres/actors and reactivate them. If you only deactivate the plugin these custom post type/taxonomies are kept as is; if you uninstall the plugin they are converted to standard WordPress content. But this process shouldn’t affect other contents like standard categories or posts… Do you get the same result when using another theme than the one your currently building?