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Plugin Description
From episode 1-6 search information on Star Wars Characters,ships,vehicles,planets,species, and the films. Find information such as Luke’s homeworld, Tatooine’s population, cost of a Star-Destroyer in credits, and more.
Instructions
Install
The plugin manager is located on the administration page. From the administration page in the left side bar click Plugins. From the top of the page click add new.
Install the plugin thru the plugin manager, or upload it as a zip file into the plugin manager.
Use
There are two differant ways to use this plugin. It can be used in a Sidebar or placed directly into a post as a Gutenberg Block Object.
SideBar
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Customize Menu
From the main administration page in the left sidebar hover your mouse over Appearance. Click Customize and then click Widgets. Then click on the sidebar that you wish to add the widget to. Then click Add a Widget. Find Search Star Wars in the list and click it. Type a title and then click done.
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Widget Menu
From the main administration page in the left sidebar hover your mouse over Appearance. Click Widgets and then a list of available widgets will be displayed on the page. Find and click Search Star Wars and then select the sidebar that you would like to add the widget to. Type a title for it and then hit done.
Gutenberg Block Object
- As a post
Create a post like you normally would and then click the + icon displayed to Add block. Find Search Star Wars to add the widget to the post. Type a title for the widget and then save the post.
Additional Info
No service calls are made to obtain the data needed to use this plugin, but the data used to create the “starwarsData.json” file was originally obtained thru https://swapi.dev/, of which obtained the data from open sources such as wookieepedia.
Screenshots
Example of widget before searching.
Example of widget when typing into search bar.
Example of a search result from the widget.
