Issue with .plexignore

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I have done a bunch of google and youtube searches but nothing I have tried has worked. What I’m trying to achieve is to have Plex ignore “a” and “the” on the file name. So if the file name is The A-Team, I want it to ignore “The” so when I’m looking at my library on a device (phone, tablet, Amazon Fire on my TV), the movie will be found under the A movie listings instead of the T movie listings. Has anyone found a trick that works? I have resorted to manually going into the Plex Server, clicking on recently added files one by one and changing the info for that particular file name. Doing it this way is a bit time consuming, I would think that there would be a much easier way to accomplish this. I’m using a mini Windows PC for Plex and it’s strictly dedicated to only Plex so that it’s not bogged down. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have!

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Plex is doing that by default.
And you don’t need a .plexignore file for it.

It works by way of the “sort title” field. This one is populated from the regular “title” field, but “A” or “The” at the beginning are cropped.

This behavior is controlled by the hidden server preference ArticleStrings. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201105343-advanced-hidden-server-settings/

Changing this preference doesn’t retroactively change the sort title of items which are already in your Plex libraries. Only newly added items get their sort title cropped according to the preference.

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Thanks for the link, I book marked the page so I can try it out. Unfortuantely I just added a bunch of new media files earlier today, so I’m gonna be a little busy changing the titles individually. Thanks again!