Adding Custom Movie Media type

I’d also like to add custom icons that appear in the All Movies list for each of the four new Media options.

Hi BlackApps,

Sure, you can add custom media type, though it has to be done via another plugin or your WordPress theme. See for instance the following code that adds two new media, paste it at the end of your theme’s functions.php file: https://gist.github.com/CaerCam/293f712612db8db8a2e7

Side-note: there’s a bug in the current version that prevents this code from working correctly, which your question made me notice, so thank you for that, thanks to you it will be fixed in version 2.1.4 ?? You can download that version in its latest dev state on GitHub: https://github.com/wpmovielibrary/wpmovielibrary/archive/master.zip

As for the icons it may be a little complicated as the plugin uses its own icon font, so you would need to add your personal icons via a custom CSS; that’s a part of the plugin that should be improved, though. I’ll add to the TODO list to provide a generic way to add custom icons.

Good info and fast response, thanks Charlie.

I updated the theme’s functions.php file with the media options I wanted and they appear in the Movie Media menu (at the bottom) now. I updated the plugin itself to v2.1.4 as well. Any future options you can provide to enable customization of that Movie Media menu from within the plugin itself would be great but I’ll gladly just update the functions.php file if that request is a pain ?? You are providing something pretty great for free.

Side note: You mentioned that another option for updating the Movie Media menu was using another plugin. Did you have a plugin in mind for that?

That’s actually a choice to not have a way, in the plugin itself, to alter the media types: adding custom media means they will be used and stored in the database, so handling them in the plugin’s settings implies that any harm done to the settings will mess up a lot of your movies. The then-deleted media type won’t appear anymore, but they will still be in your database, and any archive page or Shortcode or grid you might have relying on them would now be bogus. I tend to consider custom media types as an advanced modification that should be safer set in a theme or third party plugin.

Talking about plugin, I was not referring to any particular plugin, but to the fact that with WPMovieLibrary I try to provide ways for developers to interact with the plugin. For instance the default media types are hard coded in the plugin’s core, but there’s a filter hook that allows you to modify them, either in the theme or a custom plugin you might build. There are a lot of filter and action hook on this plugin, though I haven’t yet found any time to write a proper documentation. That’s something I plan to do once I’m done adding major features ??

That makes a lot of sense, Charlie. And, adding the new media types in the functions.php file is easy anyway. I really need this just to classify our movies by media location so if we are thinking about watching a movie and choose one, we know right away where to go get it.

Thanks for the response. You can tell we are spoiled by the depth of the plugin when we start asking for features like this ??