Movie Helper allows you to easily add links to movie and tv shows, just by searching them while you're writing your content. Search, click, done!
As of April 2026, Movie Helper is a WordPress TMDb plugin with 70 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: MAS Videos.
I run a site that talks about movies and TV series. Every month, very long lists of news from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney +, etc. are published.
To make the list more interesting, a link to IMDB is added to each entry. A very slow and tedious procedure!
Hence the idea of creating Movie Helper! With Movie Helper you can simply search for the title you need, click on the cover and it will automatically be inserted in the post!
No shortcodes needed, no custom posts, just click and go!
https://github.com/Dudo1985/Movie-Helper
Below the editor, you will find a new box where you will able to search for a movie or a tv show.
If you are using the classic editor, search and click the image to insert the link to the post.
If you’re using the new Gutenb…
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
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