{"id":14359,"date":"2011-01-21T01:24:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T23:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14359"},"modified":"2011-01-21T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T23:30:07","slug":"how-not-to-spoil-a-spoiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/21\/how-not-to-spoil-a-spoiler\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to spoil a spoiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Here is something that I am trying to figure out &#8211; movie spoilers. \u00a0Since I now like how my movie reviews are listing, I want to write more reviews. \u00a0But even with the ones I already wrote it&#8217;s difficult to remember specifics of each movie. \u00a0&#8220;good movie&#8221; and &#8220;bad movie&#8221; only work in reviews for so many times.<\/p>\n<p>What I want to do now is to actually have a brief story of what the movie was about. \u00a0 This should give me more grounds to cover for review, as well as make the review easier to read, and what&#8217;s more important &#8211; it will simplify the decision of whether or not to see the movie, at least for those (three) of you who trust my opinions enough.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with putting the story in the review is that it can often spoil the movie experience. \u00a0Not everyone wants to read the story before they see the film itself. \u00a0For that, of course, there is a technical solution. \u00a0My blog runs on <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> software, which has tonnes of plugins. \u00a0For example, there is an <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/easy-spoiler\/\">Easy Spoiler<\/a> plugin and even an <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/advanced-spoiler\/\">Advanced Spoiler<\/a> plugin. \u00a0If I install either one of these plugins and then mark the story in the review to be hidden, then those of you who&#8217;d like to read everything will be able to do so with just one click.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not that easy. \u00a0There are people who read reviews off the front page of this blog. \u00a0And there are those who read them via RSS feed subscriptions. \u00a0 To deal with those people, I&#8217;d probably have to structure a review in a such a way that only a part of it appears on the front page and in RSS feed, and whoever wants to read the whole thing will need to click through to the full text. It is still a possible solution, easy on the technical side, but I already dislike it a bit. \u00a0 I like things in simple, and this doesn&#8217;t look so anymore (from the reader&#8217;s perspective).<\/p>\n<p>On top of that I worry about the structure of the review. \u00a0It seems like too many elements are in free format. \u00a0A full review in this scenario consists of a excerpt that is shown on the front page and in RSS, spoiler-covered text of the story, and then the actual review. \u00a0There are plugins for WordPress which can help me add more structure (especially now that WordPress supports custom post types). \u00a0And I know how to use them. \u00a0But a re-structure like that will render all previous reviews weird. \u00a0And that I don&#8217;t want to do. \u00a0On the other hand, I&#8217;ll never find the time or will to re-adjust them. \u00a0After all, I am still in the process of reorganizing them from my old tag-based system to the new category-based system.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still thinking about the best way to do this. \u00a0I still haven&#8217;t decided. \u00a0If you have any input on this issue, please let me know. \u00a0I&#8217;m interested.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Here is something that I am trying to figure out &#8211; movie spoilers. \u00a0Since I now like how my movie reviews are listing, I want to write more reviews. \u00a0But even with the ones I already wrote it&#8217;s difficult to remember specifics of each movie. \u00a0&#8220;good movie&#8221; and &#8220;bad movie&#8221; only work in reviews for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/21\/how-not-to-spoil-a-spoiler\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How not to spoil a spoiler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,1335,62,60],"tags":[3012],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-site-news","category-technology","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress-plugins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13622,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/22\/new-look-for-movie-reviews-categories\/","url_meta":{"origin":14359,"position":0},"title":"New look for Movie Reviews categories","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I finally did something that I have been planning for a really long time - applied a new look for Movie Reviews categories. \u00a0Instead of them showing movie reviews like regular posts, they now show movie poster thumbnail and a star rating that I gave to the movie. \u00a0Clicking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Movie-Reviews-500x323.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8189,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/10\/movie-reviews-are-now-just-movies\/","url_meta":{"origin":14359,"position":1},"title":"Movie reviews are now just Movies","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 10, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"A quick update to the site - \"Movie reviews\" category was renamed to \"Movies\". 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