Description

SPOSCOR Basketball is a dedicated basketball plugin built on top of SPOSCOR Core. It adds basketball-specific features like quarter-by-quarter scoreboards, starting lineups, and game highlights — all designed to publish your game results quickly and beautifully.

Perfect for local basketball clubs, amateur teams, school clubs, and anyone who wants a simple yet professional way to display basketball scores on their WordPress site.

Why SPOSCOR Basketball?

5 minutes to publish. Just enter scores and paste a shortcode.
Quarter-by-quarter scoreboard. Q1-Q4 plus overtime.
Overtime support. Add OT periods per game as needed.
Mobile-first admin. Enter scores from the gym on your phone, one-handed.
Beautiful display. Modern card design that looks great on any theme.

Features

Unlimited games
Quarter-by-quarter scoreboard (Q1-Q4 + OT)
Starting lineup (PG / SG / SF / PF / C + substitutes)
Game highlights (3-pointer, dunk, free throw, foul, and more) with per-play team, period, clock and player
6 display themes (Light / Dark / Mono / Pro / Studio / Minimal)
Voice input for scores (free)
Multilingual: English, Japanese, Spanish

Pro Features ($39/year)

Unlimited tournaments (leagues & knockout brackets)
Standings tables with FIBA-style tiebreakers
Full design customization (colors & sizes)
OBS streaming view for live broadcasts
Lineup bulk paste from Excel / Google Sheets
Priority support

Requires SPOSCOR Core

This plugin needs the free “SPOSCOR Core” plugin to work. Install and activate SPOSCOR Core first.

Pricing

SPOSCOR Basketball comes in two plans: a free version (everything above) and Pro at $39/year, which adds unlimited tournaments, standings tables, full design customization, OBS streaming, and lineup bulk paste.

Screenshots

Quarter-by-quarter scorecard on the front end.

Game highlights with team, period, and player. — Quarter-by-quarter scorecard on the front end.

Installation

Install and activate the free “SPOSCOR Core” plugin.
Upload the SPOSCOR Basketball plugin to /wp-content/plugins/, or install it from the Plugins screen.
Activate SPOSCOR Basketball through the Plugins screen.
Go to Basketball, add a game, enter the score, and paste the shortcode into any post or page.

FAQ

Does this work on its own?: No. SPOSCOR Basketball requires the free SPOSCOR Core plugin, which provides the shared engine and settings.
Can I show overtime?: Yes. The scoreboard supports Q1-Q4 plus overtime periods, which you can add per game.
Can I run a league or tournament?: Yes, with the Pro plan. The free plan includes one tournament; Pro unlocks unlimited tournaments, standings tables, and knockout brackets.
What shortcodes are available?: [sposcor_scorecard id=”123″] shows the full game card. [sposcor_result id=”123″] shows a compact result. Tournament and standings shortcodes are available with Pro.

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Contributors & Developers

“SPOSCOR Basketball” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.9.1

Changed: all function, variable, and hook names now use a unique sposcor_basketball_ prefix
Fixed: admin styles could be overridden by another SPOSCOR sport plugin, changing the highlight row layout
Updated the bundled Freemius SDK to 2.13.4
Fixed: the auto-refresh toggle on match pages did nothing when more than one scorecard was on the page
Fixed: front-end scripts were attached to a shared handle and could fail to load, which stopped the refresh buttons from working
Improved: output escaping now uses wp_kses() with an explicit allow-list
Fixed: refresh buttons on tournament and standings views did not update the timestamp (Pro)
Fixed: design customization and streaming settings appeared on sports without a Pro license
Fixed: tournament features appeared on sports without a Pro license when another sport had one
Fixed: refresh and auto-refresh buttons on tournament and standings views (Pro)
Fixed: Pro features could disappear when another SPOSCOR sport plugin was active on the same site
Fixed: the license activation and account screens were registered outside the plugin menu, which caused a PHP notice and an access error after activating a license
Fixed: a PHP notice on WordPress 6.7 and later caused by translations being loaded before the init action
Improved: tournament grid layout now wraps to a single column on narrow screens (Pro)

1.7.42

Fixed design preview showing a stale color for settings hidden on this sport; they now follow the selected theme (Pro).

1.7.41

Streaming view now reflects changes to team abbreviations, logos, emoji, colors, venue, and tournament name without a manual reload (Pro).

1.7.40

Fixed the design settings preview falling back to theme preset colors for fields hidden on this sport (Pro).
Fixed the OBS Stream tab occasionally not appearing on the settings screen (Pro).

1.7.27

Design settings preview restored to the original working behavior (Pro).

1.7.26

Fixed the design settings preview by restoring the original color-input-first initialization (Pro).

1.7.25

Fixed the design settings preview reverting to the theme colors after saving (Pro).

1.7.24

Aligned Freemius configuration (slug and premium slug) with the dashboard.

1.7.23

WordPress.org compliance: separated Pro design logic, renamed to SPOSCOR Basketball, split Plugin/Author URIs, and hardened against double activation.

1.7.22

Highlight types: 3PT/2PT/FT/DUNK/AST/REB/BLK/STL/FOUL/TF plus Timeout, Substitution and Other.
Restored quarter label (Qtr), 4-quarter minimum, and captain marker.

1.7.21

Restored the captain (star) marker in the starting lineup (admin input and front-end C column).

1.7.20

Removed the baseball batting-hand and average columns from the starting lineup.

1.7.19

Removed the baseball ball/strike/out count and base-runner diamond from the top score area.

1.7.18

Tournament and league match cards now stack into a single column on mobile instead of overflowing.

1.7.17

Removed the baseball-only “Pitcher Record Row Background” option from the design settings.

1.7.16

Match cards now read quarter scores from the game when not stored on the tournament, so Q1-Q4 always appear.

1.7.15

Tournament and league match cards now show quarter-by-quarter scores (Q1-Q4 + OT).

1.7.14

Removed the baseball-only Pitchers section from Display Settings and the Settings page.

1.7.13

Removed the baseball-only Live Count URL from the OBS panel; basketball shows Main Score and Scoreboard URLs only.

1.7.12

Removed the duplicate PTS column next to the total (R) column on the scoreboard.

1.7.11

Scoreboard now stops adding periods at OT5 (Q1-Q4 + OT1-OT5).

1.7.10

Scoreboard headers now show Q1-Q4 and OT1-OT5 instead of 1,2,3.

1.7.9

Highlights use quarter + minute (Q1 3′) with player and event type, matching the established front-end layout.

1.7.8

Rebuilt on the shared SPOSCOR architecture (self-contained tournament, settings, and OBS layers bundled with the plugin).
Quarter-by-quarter scoreboard with overtime.
Starting lineup (PG/SG/SF/PF/C + substitutes).
Basketball highlights with period, clock, team, type, player and assist.
FIBA-style standings tiebreakers (Pro).
Compatible with WordPress 7.0.

1.0.0

Initial release of SPOSCOR Basketball.
Quarter-by-quarter scoreboard with overtime.
Starting lineup (PG/SG/SF/PF/C + substitutes).
Basketball highlights with period, clock, team, type, player and assist.
FIBA-style standings tiebreakers (Pro).
Shared tournament, settings, and OBS streaming layers.