MEDIAFY 1.9 — What’s New

Building a professional movie or TV series website with WordPress should be about creating content — not wasting hours manually organizing data. The new Mediafy TMDB plugin update 1.9 continues to refine that much-sought-after ideal workflow, positioning Mediafy as the best and only plugin on the WordPress market to solve the problem of movie and series metadata management.

Full Writers Import Support

Mediafy now imports writers directly from TMDB API. Your movies and series entries include not only actors and directors, but also the people responsible for the script. Writer data is stored using the same clean structure the plugin uses throughout, giving your content pages more complete credits and better metadata.

For existing entries created before this update, a new Re-fetch Data checkbox is available on the movie and series edit screen. Checking it and saving the post triggers a fresh import from TMDB, overwriting taxonomies with the latest data. This makes it straightforward to backfill writer information on older posts without rebuilding them manually.

Smart Crew Detection

Many movies have directors who are also credited as writers.

Instead of creating duplicated terms, Mediafy now detects these cases automatically.

When a person appears as both Director and Writer, Mediafy stores both roles (or “jobs” as appear on API) within the single taxonomy term, keeping your database clean and your templates easier to manage.

This improves:

• Database consistency
• Cleaner taxonomy archives
• Better data organization
• Easier development when use on a WordPress theme
• More accurate crew information

It’s a small detail that makes a big difference for websites managing thousands of titles.

Automatic Image Refetch

One of the biggest challenges for media websites is keeping actor and crew images up to date.

TMDB continuously improves profile photos, but manually replacing hundreds or even thousands of taxonomy images is simply not practical.

Mediafy 1.9 introduces Image Refetch, a new maintenance tool available directly from the plugin settings.

With a single click on Settings, Mediafy can:

• Detect existing taxonomy images
• Remove outdated images
• Download the latest profile image directly from TMDB
• Replace media automatically
• Continue processing until every taxonomy has been updated

Simply press the button “Check & Refresh People Images” and let Mediafy handle everything. Tool also includes a real-time progress indicator during the Image Refetch process, allowing administrators to monitor progress while the update runs.

This makes maintenance safer, clearer, and far more user-friendly.

Mediafy Continues to Evolve

Mediafy TMDB plugin update 1.9 is another step toward making it the most complete TMDB import solution available for WordPress. New Writers taxonomy support, intelligent crew management, and automatic image replacement mean less time managing data and more time building content — which is exactly the point.