Lumiere Movies

Instalação

normal use

1. Activate the plugin
2. Should you want to fine-tune your blog, configure the plugin (in admin settings). Default values are automatically filled, no change is needed for normal use.
3. Activate a Lumière widget if you intend to include movie information into your sidebar.
4. Write your posts including movie information using the many tools smoothly incorporated in WordPress!

basic options

There are three ways to use Lumière!: 1/ with the popup link maker, 2/ with a widget and 3/ inside a post. Each option can be combined with any other; there is no limitation!

1. Popup When writing your post, embed a movie’s title using “Add IMDb Link” option. Select the movie’s title you wrote down and click on that option. It will add an invisible HTML span tag around the selected title such as: < span data-lum_link_maker “popup”> movie’s title< /span> that usually you can’t see except if you’re editing in text mode. You can see if it worked by the little icon on the left of you selected text. After publishing your post, your text will be clickable and will open a popup with data about the movie! Popups can be displayed using Bootstrap, Classic or Highslide modal windows (can be selected in Lumière! admin options).
2. Widget can be used to display movie’s data. Go to widgets admin options and add a Lumière! widget in the sidebar you want to show information about movies. Once the widget is activated, you can add information about a movie to your sidebar: when editing your blog post, a new widget will be displayed for your to enter either the movie’s name (that can lead to unexpected results) or the IMDb ID (this never fails in retrieving a movie) of the movie you want to be shown in the sidebar. If you don’t know what the IMDb ID is, you can use the query link provided in Lumière! widget. Just search for the movie name and you will find the IMDb ID.
3. The plugin can show IMDb data inside a post. With modern WordPress (WP 5.8), just add a Lumière Inside a Post block and enter a movie’s title or movie’s imdb ID. For the latter, in order to find the IMDb ID use the query tool provided in Lumière block (gutenberg sidebar). A similar tool is provided with classic WP editor in a form of dropdown menu. If you’re writing your post with classic WP editor (or pre-5.0 WordPress), use Lumière’s bar tools to select the movie title: it will insert html tags around your selection, such as < span data-lum_movie_maker “movie_title”>My movie’s title< /span>.

Fine-tuning:

1. Lumière! Movies can create pages that include a list of movies identically tagged (known as taxonomy). Taxonomy templates are provided. Check plugin’s help to figure out how to use it.
2. You may edit the “/* —- imdbincluded /” section in css/lumiere.css file to customize the layout according to your taste. In order to keep your stylesheet changes through Lumière! updates, you need to download an unminified lumiere.css from the Lumiere GIT repository, and after editing it just put your new lumiere.css file into your current WordPress template folder (a child template, preferably, it will get deleted by a template update otherwise). This way, your stylesheet modifications will be kept through Lumière!’s updates. Important: do not removed the section before “/ —- imdbincluded */”.

Advanced

1. If you do not want Lumière to add any link (in the case you are only looking for information displayed in widget and inside posts), search for the option located in “General options -> Advanced -> 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 “Auto widget” option located in “General Options -> Advanced -> Auto widget” in the plugin admin options. Make sure you added a Lumière widget in “Appearence – Widgets”. Usefull for blogs exclusively dedicated to movie reviews, where all posts’ titles are named after movie’s titles.
3. You may want to include a custom page in your blog that includes all your movie related articles. Have a look there : Lost highway’s movies reviews.
4. Taxonomy pages and popups URLs can be edited according to your tastes. In advanced general Lumière options, you may want to modify the URL starting with ‘lumiere’ for taxonomy pages. Make sure to refresh your “rewriting rules” when adding new taxonomy (visit in your admin interface the page Permalink Settings (/wp-admin/options-permalink.php)
5. Should your blog be dedicated to TV shows or videogames only, it is possible to change Lumière’s search behaviour to retrieve exclusively those. In advanced general Lumière admin options, look for ‘Search categories’.
6. Many more options are offered, just take a look at the options!