RAMSTHEMES

<p>Animata is a cutting-edge WordPress plugin designed to simplify anime data management. Seamlessly fetch and display detailed anime information using the AniList API (unofficial). Perfect for anime enthusiasts, bloggers, and database creators, Animata offers a user-friendly solution to enrich your website with accurate and up-to-date anime details effortlessly.</p>
<p>This free version includes poster, banner, description, status, score, and release date for anime only.<br />
Get the Pro version to unlock live search, more fields and taxonomies — not just for anime, but also for manga, manhwa, and novels.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Create a new Anime post and enter the anime title or ID into the “Media Name or ID” field.</li>
<li>Press the “Go” button to fetch data from AniList. Fields like banner, poster, status, score, and description will be filled automatically.</li>
<li>When you save the post, poster and banner images are automatically downloaded and assigned as featured images.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Using in Regular Posts</h4>
<p>If you’d like to insert an anime card into a regular WordPress post, use the shortcode like this:<br />
    [animata_mediacontent id=”19″]<br />
(Where <code>19</code> is the post ID of an anime post previously created.)</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin integrates with the AniList GraphQL API to fetch anime metadata. This integration is required to automatically populate anime information when creating/updating posts.</p>
<h4>AniList API Integration</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service Provider</strong>: AniList (https://anilist.co)</li>
<li><strong>What’s Sent</strong>:
<ul>
<li>User-provided anime title or ID</li>
<li>GraphQL query requesting specific anime metadata fields</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>When Data is Sent</strong>:
<ul>
<li>When admin users manually search for anime</li>
<li>When saving/updating anime posts using AniList data</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Data Usage</strong>:
<ul>
<li>Retrieves anime metadata (titles, descriptions, images, status, scores, dates)</li>
<li>Used to populate content fields in WordPress</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Required By Features</strong>:
<ul>
<li>Anime metadata auto-population</li>
<li>Banner/poster image sourcing</li>
<li>Score/status tracking</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Service Links</strong>:
<ul>
<li>Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: https://anilist.co/terms</li>
<li>API Documentation: https://anilist.gitbook.io/anilist-apiv2-docs/</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>This integration only sends the minimum required data to retrieve anime information. No user or site data is stored by AniList through these API requests.</p>


Animata

The free version of the Anime Data fetcher plugin for WordPress.

KeeperOfLogic

<p>A highly customizable widget that display your anime and manga lists from <a href="http://MyAnimeList.net" rel="nofollow ugc">MyAnimeList.net</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Sort the list by any field (in any direction) or randomly</li>
<li>Control the display by adjusting image width and how many items to show in a row.</li>
<li>Super flex filtering mechanism allows you to apply filtering on any field, in any combination!</li>
<li>Caching Support (every hour, day or week) </li>
<li>Change the look and feel with custom CSS support</li>
<li>Different connection methods (Curl or File_get_content) </li>
<li>Different caching mechanism (DB or File)</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information, visit the <a href="http://voiceoflogic.co.il/blog/wp-myanimelist-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin homepage</a>.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<p>The only property you must enter is your MAL username. All other properties can be left at default.</p>
<p><strong>Data Retrieval</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>MAL username:  Your MyAnimeList.net username. </li>
<li>Connection method: Specify which method to connect to MyAnimeList site. Leave it to default unless your are experiencing a problem. </li>
<li>Cache: Using cache will speed up your site performance. Leave it to default unless your are experiencing a problem. For more information look at the FAQ section.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Sort and Filter</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Sort by: Determine how to sort the anime list. For more information look at the FAQ section.</li>
<li>Sort by direction: Low to high – sort the list in ascending order. High to low – sort the list in descending order.</li>
<li>Filter expression: This powerful setting allows you to filter the anime list in order to show only specific anime series. For more information look at the FAQ section.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Appearance</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Widget title: Title of the widget. Leave empty to hide the title. </li>
<li>Columns: How many anime items in a row. (default 3)  </li>
<li>Image width: The anime image width (in pixels). Default 95. A lower number will make the images look smaller, and a higher number will make them look bigger (maximum recommended width is 225px). (default 95) </li>
<li>Maximum items:  Maximum number of anime to show. Leave empty to show all. (default 12)  </li>
<li>Show image: Show the anime image.  </li>
<li>Show title:  Show the anime title.  </li>
<li>More link:  Checking this will add a “more” link which points to your MAL list. You can also enter the link text.  </li>
<li>Widget CSS:  CSS is the web styling rules. Change this to modify how the list is displayed in the site. (advanced users)  </li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://voiceoflogic.co.il/blog/wp-myanimelist-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">View instructions with images</a>.</p>


WP-MyAnimeList

A highly customizable widget that display your anime and manga lists from MyAnimeList.net

Animata vs WP-MyAnimeList