Moviestar – Online Movie, Video & TV Show WordPress Theme

A film site fills up one title at a time

Building the front page of a movie site takes an afternoon. What takes months comes afterwards: every title needs its poster, its synopsis, its page and its video, and a catalog with few entries shows the moment someone uses the search box. The design gets finished once. The loading never does.

That is why, before looking at the demos, it is worth timing how long one title takes to load and multiplying that by your catalog. For a few dozen written by hand, a theme like Moviestar may be enough. For thousands of titles, you need to think about importing first.

Moviestar is a responsive WordPress theme for sharing movies and TV shows, with its layout built in Elementor.

What it brings to dress the site

• More than 75 inner pages and more than 80 ready-made blocks.
• More than 6 header designs.
• More than 20 custom Elementor widgets and more than 40 custom add-ons.
• One-click demo importer.
• Header, footer, logo, menu, button and typography options, with unlimited colors.
• Preloader you can turn on or off, and smooth scrolling.
• Fonts and icons: Google Fonts, Font Awesome, Flaticon and icofont.

Shop, newsletter and audio on the same site

Beyond title pages, there are pieces for what surrounds them:

• WooCommerce, in case you want to sell something from the same site.
• Mailchimp, for the newsletter with the week's releases.
• Contact Form 7 for contact forms.
• Google Maps integrated, useful if there is a cinema or a production company with a physical address behind the site.
• SoundCloud audio, which can accompany titles with a podcast or a soundtrack.
• Loco Translate to translate the theme's text.

Where the theme stops

Its features do not include a built-in player, subscriptions, pay-per-view or memberships. They also do not include importing from TMDB or IMDb, or watchlists for users.

If your idea is a platform that charges to watch, you will have to add those pieces or look for a theme that already brings them.

Before deciding, install the demo and create a test title from start to finish. That way you check which fields the page has and how a video gets added, which is what you will repeat hundreds of times.

Setup with Elementor, from the demo to the first title

Layout is done in Elementor and forms in Contact Form 7. To begin:

1. Install the theme and import the demo closest to your project.
2. Adjust logo, header, colors and typography from the theme options.
3. Load five complete titles, with real posters and synopses, and review how they look.
4. Work out how long each title took and multiply by your planned catalog.
5. Translate the theme's text with Loco Translate if your audience does not read English.

For a large catalog or more features

Vodi works with the MAS Videos plugin: movies, series and episodes have their own pages, with filterable archives, and registered users get history and playlists. It deserves a comparison if your project revolves around the catalog.

For bulk loading, the catalog has Epiza, a movie and TV show importer for WordPress. Check which theme it works with before combining it. And if you are looking for a streaming theme, you can see Streamit.

Video store, blog or magazine? Five answers on Moviestar

Does it work for a paid video platform?

Its features do not include subscriptions or pay-per-view. It has WooCommerce support, but a platform like that would need other pieces.

Does it import movies automatically?

Its features do not include importing from TMDB or IMDb. Check this against your loading workflow before planning a large catalog.

What do I need to edit the pages?

Elementor, with its more than 20 custom widgets. Contact forms use Contact Form 7.

Can I sell products from the site?

Yes, it has WooCommerce support.

Can it be translated?

Yes, with Loco Translate.