Title: Unique identifier
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Unique identifier

 *  Resolved [szemcse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/szemcse/)
 * (@szemcse)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unique-identifier/)
 * I would like a unique identifier (letters / numbers) for each movie? This can
   be made. make it easier to search for movies on the shelves.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpmovielibrary/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpmovielibrary/)

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 *  [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askelon/)
 * (@askelon)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unique-identifier/#post-5124352)
 * Not sure I’m getting your point here. Technically, movies are just a custom post
   type, meaning they already have a unique identifier: the Post ID. Wouldn’t that
   be what you’re looking for?
 *  Thread Starter [szemcse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/szemcse/)
 * (@szemcse)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unique-identifier/#post-5124568)
 * The films in my shelf are in a numerical order (not in alphabetical order), each
   one has a number. If I search for a title of a film, I would like to know where
   it is (its number). How can I do this?
 *  [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askelon/)
 * (@askelon)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unique-identifier/#post-5124570)
 * Ok! The plugin doesn’t provide anything like that, but I guess you could achieve
   that with a few built-in WP tools, I’m thinking of custom fields or post slugs…
 *  [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askelon/)
 * (@askelon)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unique-identifier/#post-5124701)
 * Marking as solved.
 *  Thread Starter [szemcse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/szemcse/)
 * (@szemcse)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unique-identifier/#post-5124702)
 * How can it be resolved? I can not find in the plugin.
 *  [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askelon/)
 * (@askelon)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unique-identifier/#post-5124703)
 * That’s because it’s not an issue with the plugin itself, nor a feature it should
   provide considering that it can be done using basic WordPress tools.
 * Like I said the easiest way to do what you want is to use [custom fields](http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields)
   and adapt your theme to it, or build a custom Shortcode. You can add custom fields
   in the movie editor using the relevant metabox: [http://pix.caercam.org/upload/original/1410339344.png](http://pix.caercam.org/upload/original/1410339344.png)
   Then you can get that value using the [get_post_meta()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta)
   function add create a shortcode to show it, or do it directly in your theme using
   the [the_meta()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_meta) function.
 * I can’t do much more right now, but at least this should get you started!
 *  Thread Starter [szemcse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/szemcse/)
 * (@szemcse)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unique-identifier/#post-5124704)
 * Thank you very much for your answers, so i have understand.

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