BahadirMovie - Movies And TV WordPress Theme

BahadirMovie – Movies & TV Series WordPress Theme

BahadirMovie is a modern, responsive and feature-rich WordPress theme created for movie databases, TV series portals, entertainment websites, streaming catalogues, episode-based content platforms and movie or TV news websites.

The package includes the BahadirMovie WordPress Theme and the dedicated BahadirMovie TMDB Importer companion plugin. Together, they provide a complete workflow for managing movies, TV series, seasons, episodes, actors, directors, ratings, video sources, user activity, blog content and SEO information directly from the WordPress administration panel.

Modern Cinematic Design

BahadirMovie provides a dark, cinematic and user-friendly interface designed for desktop, tablet and mobile devices. The responsive layout automatically adapts to different screen sizes while preserving fast navigation, readable content cards and a consistent visual experience.

Visitors can browse recently added movies and TV series, explore popular content, filter titles by genres and years, view actor and director archives, search content instantly, read blog articles and manage their personal viewing activity.

Flexible Site Content Mode

The built-in Site Content Mode allows administrators to control which catalogue sections are visible to visitors without deleting, unpublishing or modifying stored content.

• Movies and TV Series: Movies, TV series and episodes remain available across the entire visitor-facing website.
• Movies Only: TV series and episodes are hidden from visitors while every database record remains safely stored.
• TV Series Only: Movies are hidden while TV series and episodes continue to operate normally.

The selected mode is automatically applied to single pages, archives, menus, homepage sections, sliders, Coming Soon content, live search results, actor and director pages, public queries and supported sitemap output.

Selectable Header Designs

BahadirMovie includes multiple desktop header layouts that can be selected from the built-in Theme Options panel.

• Modern Header layout
• Compact Header layout
• Responsive mobile header
• Logo, navigation, search and account controls
• Configurable login and registration buttons
• Refined spacing and typography for long English navigation labels
• Optimized hover, active and focus states

Advanced Homepage Experience

The homepage is designed to present large content libraries in a structured and attractive format.

• Recently added movies section
• Recently added TV series section
• Featured and popular content areas
• Genre-based browsing
• Year-based content discovery
• Movie Finder quick access
• Movie Requests quick access
• Announcement area
• Optional latest Blog posts section
• Customizable footer and social media links

Selectable Homepage Slider Layouts

Administrators can choose between different homepage slider presentations without changing existing movie or TV series content.

• Standard Poster Slider: Traditional featured content presentation using poster-based cards.
• Dual Showcase Slider: Displays two large featured titles side by side on desktop and one responsive showcase item on mobile devices.

The slider supports movie and TV series content, backdrop images, IMDb ratings, release years, genres, descriptions and direct watch or detail actions.

• Responsive desktop and mobile behavior
• Touch-friendly mobile navigation
• Desktop navigation arrows
• Hover-based slider controls for a cleaner interface
• Existing slider content remains compatible when changing layouts

Coming Soon Story Section

The Coming Soon section presents upcoming movies and TV series in a modern story-style horizontal carousel.

• Circular poster presentation
• Release date badges
• Touch-friendly horizontal scrolling
• Previous and next navigation controls
• Customizable section title
• Configurable number of displayed items
• Automatic visibility period after the release date
• Dedicated View All link
• Responsive mobile presentation

Advanced Live Search

The live search overlay helps visitors find content instantly without reloading the page.

• Real-time search results while typing
• Movie, TV series and episode search
• Optional Blog post search integration
• Popular content suggestions before typing
• Poster thumbnail, content type, year, rating and view information
• Blog content type labels in search results
• Keyboard navigation using arrow keys
• Open selected content with the Enter key
• Close the search overlay with the ESC key
• Direct access to the advanced Movie Finder page
• Responsive desktop and mobile interface

Advanced Movie Finder

The built-in Movie Finder helps visitors discover suitable movies and TV series through detailed catalogue filtering.

• Filter by content type
• Filter by genre
• Filter by release year
• Filter by IMDb rating
• Filter by video language
• Filter by video quality
• Sort by newest, oldest or rating
• Reset all filters with one click
• Responsive result cards with posters and content metadata

Movie, TV Series and Episode Management

Movies, TV series, episodes, actors and directors are managed through dedicated WordPress custom post types. The administration interface provides organized tab-based fields instead of placing all metadata into a single long form.

Media Management

• Poster and backdrop image selection
• WordPress media library integration
• YouTube trailer links
• Vimeo trailer links
• Iframe embed code support
• Direct MP4 video links
• HLS and M3U8 video sources
• WordPress shortcode-based video sources
• Video selection and upload controls

Advanced Multi-Source Video System

Movies and episodes are not limited to a single playback source. BahadirMovie includes a dynamic video source management system designed for websites that require multiple playback alternatives.

• Main video source field
• Three alternative video fields available by default
• Add additional video fields dynamically
• Support for up to 10 alternative video sources per movie or episode
• Remove dynamically added video fields when they are no longer required
• Customizable video source labels
• Automatic Alternative 1, Alternative 2 and similar fallback labels

Custom source labels can be used to display names such as Dailymotion, Vidmoly, Server 2, Backup Server or any other administrator-defined name.

Supported Video Source Types

• Standard video URL
• Iframe
• Embed code
• MP4
• M3U8 / HLS
• YouTube
• Registered WordPress shortcodes

WordPress shortcode support allows compatible third-party player plugins to be integrated directly into the existing movie and episode video source workflow.

Ratings and Information

• Release year
• IMDb rating
• Configurable IMDb rating display format
• IMDb description
• Fallback viewer rating
• Runtime information
• Manual starting view count
• Automatic view counter

Actor and Director Selection

• Search actors and directors from imported records
• Select multiple people for one title
• Display profile photos in the administration panel
• Automatically connect selected people to movie and TV series pages
• Create actor and director archive pages
• Dedicated actor profile pages
• Dedicated director profile pages

Status and Promotion Controls

• Mark content as featured
• Display content in the homepage slider
• Mark content as trending
• Add content to the Coming Soon section
• Set a Coming Soon release date
• Add a short promotional description

Modern Episode Navigation

Episode pages include a modern Previous / Next navigation interface designed to make long TV series easier to browse.

• Previous Episode navigation
• Next Episode navigation
• Season and episode number information
• Episode title display
• Direct TV Series page link
• First episode state
• Season finale state
• Font Awesome navigation icons
• Responsive mobile layout
• Long English episode title compatibility

User Features

Registered users receive a dedicated frontend profile area and can interact with movies and TV series without accessing the WordPress administration panel.

• Custom login page
• Custom registration page
• Password reset page
• Frontend user profile
• Mark content as watched
• Follow movies and TV series
• Rate supported content
• View watched, followed and rated items
• Continue Watching functionality
• Comment access for logged-in users
• WordPress admin access restriction for standard users

Blog & News Module

BahadirMovie includes an optional Blog & News Module based on the native WordPress Posts system. The module operates independently from Movies, TV Series and Episodes and does not replace the existing movie and TV homepage.

The Blog Module is disabled by default, making it safe to enable only when a website requires articles, news, guides or editorial content.

• Dedicated /blog/ page
• Native WordPress Posts integration
• Featured Blog post
• Category filtering
• Tag archives
• Blog pagination
• 2-column Blog layout
• 3-column Blog layout
• 4-column Blog layout
• Modern responsive Blog cards
• Optional author information
• Optional publishing date
• Optional comment count
• Optional excerpts
• Automatic estimated reading time

Blog Post Experience

• Dedicated Blog post detail layout
• Recommended Posts sidebar on desktop
• Recommended Posts below the article on mobile and tablet
• Previous Post navigation
• Next Post navigation
• Category and tag support
• Responsive article typography

Blog Integration Options

• Optional Blog link in the Header
• Optional Blog link in the Footer
• Include or exclude Blog posts from live search
• Optional Latest Blog Posts section on the homepage
• Custom homepage Blog section title
• Configurable homepage Blog post count
• Quick New Blog Post administration shortcut
• Quick Manage Posts shortcut
• Quick View Blog shortcut

Theme Options Panel

The built-in Theme Options panel allows administrators to configure the website without editing source files.

• Site Content Mode
• User rating system control
• Desktop logo
• Mobile logo
• Favicon
• Primary theme color
• Header layout selection
• Header search visibility
• Login and registration button visibility
• Homepage quick links
• Homepage slider layout
• Coming Soon section settings
• Blog Module settings
• Footer description and copyright text
• Advertisement code areas
• Advanced SEO settings
• Social media account links

Safe HTML Footer Support

The Footer Description and Copyright Text fields support a controlled set of safe HTML elements, allowing administrators to add links or basic formatting without enabling unsafe executable markup.

• Safe hyperlink support
• Strong and bold text
• Italic text
• Span elements
• Line breaks
• Unsafe scripts and executable attributes are filtered

TMDB Importer Included

The included BahadirMovie TMDB Importer allows administrators to retrieve movie and TV series information using a TMDB ID, IMDb ID or IMDb URL.

Administrators can import a single title or process multiple identifiers through the bulk import interface. TV series seasons and episodes can be generated through a guided importer with progress information, created and skipped counters and resumable processing.

Importer Features

• Single movie import
• Single TV series import
• Bulk movie and TV series import
• TMDB ID support
• IMDb ID support
• IMDb URL support
• Movie and TV series data preview
• Poster and backdrop import
• Actor and director import
• Full actor biography import
• Genre, country and language mapping
• IMDb rating import
• Trailer information import
• Season and episode import
• Resumable episode import queue
• Created, skipped and failed import counters
• Automatic Coming Soon assignment for future-dated content
• Configurable import language
• Configurable image quality
• Configurable post status
• Optional default audio language assignment

Advanced SEO Center

BahadirMovie includes a built-in SEO system for controlling global templates and individual content metadata without requiring an additional SEO plugin for the supported theme content types.

Global SEO Settings

• Homepage SEO title
• Homepage meta description
• Homepage SEO keywords
• Default social sharing image
• Default Robots Meta setting
• Movie SEO title template
• TV Series SEO title template
• Episode SEO title template
• Actor SEO title template
• Director SEO title template
• Movie description template
• TV Series description template
• Episode description template

Per-Content SEO Controls

• Custom SEO title
• Custom meta description
• Custom SEO keywords
• Custom canonical URL
• Robots Meta selection
• Automatic fallback to global SEO templates

Robots Controls

• Index, Follow
• Noindex, Follow
• Noindex, Nofollow
• Automatic noindex handling for supported search result pages

Social & Structured Data

• Canonical URL support
• Open Graph metadata
• Twitter Card metadata
• Default social image fallback
• Movie structured data
• TV Series structured data
• Episode structured data
• Actor and Director structured data
• BlogPosting JSON-LD structured data

Supported dynamic SEO placeholders include site name, movie title, series title, content title, release year, language, quality, season, episode and description values.

Blog SEO Support

• Dedicated Blog SEO title
• Dedicated Blog meta description
• Blog canonical URL support
• BlogPosting JSON-LD Schema
• Search-engine-friendly category and tag archives

Advertisement Areas

Multiple advertisement positions are available throughout the theme.

• Header advertisement area
• Homepage advertisement area
• Content detail advertisement area
• Video top advertisement area
• Video bottom advertisement area
• Sidebar advertisement area
• Footer advertisement area
• Banner advertisements
• AdSense code
• Custom HTML advertisement code

Responsive Mobile Navigation

The mobile interface includes optimized sliders, touch-friendly story areas, a compact header and a fixed bottom navigation bar for quick access to key sections.

• Home navigation
• Movies navigation
• Movie Finder access
• TV Series navigation
• Mobile menu access
• Touch-friendly slider navigation
• Responsive episode navigation
• Responsive Blog layouts

Translation Ready

The theme and companion plugin include translation template files and can be translated with Poedit or compatible WordPress translation tools.

Remote Updates

The theme and companion plugin include remote update clients. Available product updates can appear directly in the standard WordPress Updates screen.

• Remote version checking
• WordPress Updates screen integration
• Update package validation
• Existing content and saved settings remain protected during supported theme updates

Important Information

• A TMDB API key is not included.
• Each buyer must use their own TMDB API credentials.
• Movie files, episode videos and copyrighted media libraries are not included.
• Only video sources that the website owner is legally authorized to publish should be used.
• This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
• The theme can operate without the importer plugin, but the importer is recommended for faster content creation.
• Third-party video player plugins used through shortcode integration are not included unless specifically stated.

Package Contents

• BahadirMovie WordPress Theme
• BahadirMovie TMDB Importer Companion Plugin
• English HTML and text documentation
• Installation instructions
• Licensing and third-party notices
• Changelog and technical validation documents

Features

- Modern cinematic dark design - Fully responsive desktop, tablet and mobile layout - Modern Header layout - Compact Header layout - Refined default header spacing and typography - Movies and TV Series content mode - Movies Only content mode - TV Series Only content mode - Safe visitor-side content visibility controls - Stored content remains protected when changing content modes - Custom movie post type - Custom TV series post type - Custom episode post type - Custom actor post type - Custom director post type - Season and episode management - Actor and director profile pages - Actor and director archive pages - Recently added movies section - Recently added TV series section - Featured movie and TV series areas - Popular movie and TV series widgets - Genre-based content browsing - Year-based content browsing - Selectable homepage slider layouts - Standard Poster Slider - Dual Showcase Slider - Two featured showcase items on desktop - Single responsive showcase item on mobile - Touch-friendly mobile slider - Hover-based desktop slider navigation controls - Coming Soon story-style content carousel - Coming Soon release date badges - Configurable Coming Soon item limit - Configurable post-release display duration - Touch-friendly horizontal story navigation - Advanced live search overlay - Real-time search results without page reload - Movie, TV series and episode live search - Optional Blog post live search integration - Popular content suggestions in live search - Blog content type labels in search results - Keyboard navigation in search results - ESC key search closing support - Advanced Movie Finder page - Content type filtering - Genre filtering - Release year filtering - IMDb rating filtering - Video language filtering - Video quality filtering - Newest, oldest and rating-based sorting - Movie Requests page - Announcement area - Contact page and message management - TMDB Importer companion plugin included - Import using TMDB ID - Import using IMDb ID - Import using IMDb URL - Single movie import - Single TV series import - Bulk movie and TV series import - Movie and TV series data preview - Guided season and episode importer - Resumable episode import queue - Created, skipped and failed import counters - Automatic actor and director import - Full actor biography import - Automatic poster and backdrop import - Automatic genre, country and language mapping - Automatic IMDb rating import - Automatic trailer information import - Automatic Coming Soon assignment for future content - Configurable TMDB import language - Configurable TMDB image quality - Configurable imported post status - Optional default audio language assignment - Advanced movie video source management - Advanced episode video source management - Main video source field - Three alternative video fields available by default - Dynamic Add Video Field functionality - Up to 10 alternative video sources per movie or episode - Removable additional video source fields - Custom video source labels - Automatic alternative source label fallback - YouTube video support - YouTube trailer support - Vimeo trailer support - Iframe embed support - Embed code support - Direct MP4 video support - HLS and M3U8 video support - WordPress shortcode video support - Compatibility with shortcode-based third-party players - Modern Previous and Next Episode navigation - Episode title display in navigation - Season and episode number display in navigation - Direct TV Series page link from episode navigation - First episode state - Season finale state - Font Awesome episode navigation icons - Responsive mobile episode navigation - Movie and TV series rating system - IMDb rating display - Configurable IMDb rating display format - Automatic content view counter - Mark as watched functionality - Continue Watching functionality - Movie and TV series follow system - Registered user profile page - User rating and activity history - Custom login page - Custom registration page - Password reset page - Logged-in user comment controls - Standard user WordPress admin restriction - Blog and News Module - Blog Module disabled by default for update safety - Native WordPress Posts integration - Dedicated /blog/ page - Featured Blog post - Blog category filtering - Blog tag archives - Blog pagination - 2-column Blog layout - 3-column Blog layout - 4-column Blog layout - Responsive Blog cards - Blog author display control - Blog publishing date display control - Blog comment count display control - Blog excerpt display control - Automatic estimated reading time - Dedicated Blog post detail design - Recommended Posts desktop sidebar - Recommended Posts mobile layout - Previous and Next Blog post navigation - Optional Blog link in Header - Optional Blog link in Footer - Optional Blog integration with site search - Optional Latest Blog Posts homepage section - Configurable homepage Blog section title - Configurable homepage Blog post count - New Blog Post administration shortcut - Manage Blog Posts administration shortcut - View Blog administration shortcut - Responsive fixed mobile bottom navigation - Touch-friendly mobile story section - Mobile-optimized content cards - Desktop and mobile logo settings - Favicon setting - Custom primary theme color - Header layout selection - Header search visibility setting - Login and registration button visibility settings - Homepage quick-link controls - Customizable footer description - Customizable copyright text - Safe HTML support in Footer Description - Safe HTML support in Copyright Text - Safe footer hyperlink support - Unsafe executable footer markup filtering - Header advertisement area - Homepage advertisement area - Content detail advertisement area - Video top advertisement area - Video bottom advertisement area - Sidebar advertisement area - Footer advertisement area - AdSense, banner and custom HTML advertisement support - Facebook link setting - Instagram link setting - X / Twitter link setting - YouTube link setting - Telegram link setting - Advanced built-in SEO Center - Custom homepage SEO title - Custom homepage meta description - Homepage SEO keywords - Default social sharing image - Default Robots Meta setting - Custom movie SEO title templates - Custom TV series SEO title templates - Custom episode SEO title templates - Custom actor SEO title templates - Custom director SEO title templates - Automatic movie SEO description templates - Automatic TV series SEO description templates - Automatic episode SEO description templates - Dynamic SEO placeholders - Per-content SEO title fields - Per-content meta description fields - Per-content SEO keywords - Per-content Custom Canonical URL - Per-content Robots Meta controls - Index Follow option - Noindex Follow option - Noindex Nofollow option - Automatic SEO fallback behavior - Canonical URL support - Open Graph metadata support - Twitter Card support - Default social image fallback - Movie Schema support - TV Series Schema support - Episode Schema support - Actor Schema support - Director Schema support - Blog SEO title setting - Blog meta description setting - Blog canonical URL support - BlogPosting JSON-LD Schema - Search-engine-friendly archive structure - Translation-ready theme and plugin - Remote WordPress update support - Open and unencrypted source code - Detailed English documentation

Requirements

- WordPress 6.0 or newer - PHP 7.4 or newer - MySQL or MariaDB version supported by the installed WordPress release - An HTTPS-enabled website is strongly recommended - PHP cURL extension or outbound access through the WordPress HTTP API - PHP JSON extension - PHP mbstring extension is recommended - PHP fileinfo extension is recommended - GD or Imagick is recommended for image processing - PHP ZIP extension is recommended - Writable WordPress uploads directory - Pretty permalinks are recommended - A personal TMDB API key is required to use the TMDB Importer features - The server must allow outbound HTTPS connections to the TMDB API - JavaScript must be enabled for live search, sliders, dynamic video source fields and administration interactions - A modern browser is recommended for the best frontend and administration experience - WordPress Posts must remain available when using the optional Blog & News Module - Third-party shortcode-based video players require their corresponding WordPress plugin to be installed and activated - Video files and streaming sources are not included with the product - The website owner is responsible for using legally authorized video and media sources

Instructions

1. Download the BahadirMovie product package to your computer and extract the main archive.
2. Open the WordPress administration panel.
3. Navigate to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
4. Upload the BahadirMovie theme ZIP file from the 01-Theme folder.
5. Install and activate the theme.
6. Navigate to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
7. Upload the BahadirMovie TMDB Importer ZIP file from the 02-Companion-Plugin folder.
8. Install and activate the companion plugin.
9. Open the BahadirMovie theme settings panel.
10. Select the required Site Content Mode: Movies and TV Series, Movies Only or TV Series Only.
11. Upload the desktop logo, mobile logo and favicon.
12. Configure the primary theme color.
13. Configure header search, login and registration controls.
14. Configure homepage sections, Movie Finder and Movie Requests links.
15. Configure the Coming Soon story section title, item limit and display duration.
16. Configure footer text, social media links and advertisement areas.
17. Review the global SEO title templates for movies, TV series and episodes.
18. Open the TMDB Importer settings page.
19. Enter your personal TMDB API key.
20. Select the import language, image quality, post status and optional default audio language.
21. Use the test area to preview a movie or TV series with a TMDB ID, IMDb ID or IMDb URL.
22. Import movies or TV series individually from the Import page.
23. Use Bulk Import to process multiple TMDB or IMDb identifiers.
24. For TV series content, open the Seasons and Episodes page.
25. Select an imported TV series and start the guided season and episode import process.
26. If an episode import is interrupted, continue it through the resumable import queue.
27. Open Video Sources to assign legally authorized video links to imported episodes.
28. Create or edit WordPress menus and assign them to the available theme menu locations.
29. Review the website on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
30. For detailed usage information, open 03-Documentation/index.html from the downloaded product package.