Not Really For A Club?

  • Resolved tspencer1966

    (@tspencer1966)


    1 year, 11 months ago

    I have been looking and playing with Sportspress plugin and Rookie theme this past week.

    Unless there are options in the Pro plugin and paid themes, it seems that it’s more aimed at a league rather than something for a single club.

    I don’t want to add all the players from teams in our league and all their fixtures, results, selecting all the players for all the fixtures. I’m only interested in keeping my own teams fixtures and players details up to date. Yes, everything still works fine by just updating my own clubs stuff. But I can’t get rid of stuff like the lineup for opponents on the match recap page. Not sure yet when it comes to the league table, as it only shows points for my club, because I’ve only entered info for us. Nit sure if the league table can be manually updated.

    Looked at the showcase sites for single clubs, and those that work and are still using Sportspress, seen to have the same issues on the match recap page. They have stats for their own team, and empty column for opponents.

    Love some features that Sportspress has, but lacking functionality for using it for a single club. There should be a setting where you can select if you want to use the pkugin/theme for a league or single club. And if single club, be able to set your default club.

    Also, found that trying to get help/information is frustrating. Have emailed the help desk on the website 3 times this past week for information. Not had a reply yet. Only help I have had is on this forum.

    Not sure if I would get more support if I had Pro version. But if I can’t be sure of this or any of the above, I can’t part with money and then find out I don’t get anymore help, or make the plugin/Theme do what I want.

    Shame really, as I like a lot about Sportspress, and I could see our First Team, Reserves, and Ladies team being interested in it. But I can’t see them all parting with money for the Pro version and paid theme, based on my findings and experience.

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  • Plugin Contributor Savvas

    (@savvasha)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi @tspencer1966,

    Lets take it one by one.

    SportsPress does not force you to add all the players of all teams. You have the option to not add at all players to any team, you have the option to add players only to your team, you have the option to add players to some of the teams and ofcourse you have the option to add players to all the teams.

    If you want your League Table to be auto-calculated, then you need to add all the fixtures of this League and add ONLY the results (so as the outcomes of the events can be calculated and used on the League Table). On each event you can select which extra info you want to include (i.e. players, performances, etc). A really nice showcase of how you can use SportsPress for a single Club is the following:
    https://www.betisweb.com/web/competicion-real-betis/
    https://www.betisweb.com/web/event/j-30-girona-fc-vs-real-betis/ (an event Betis playing with full stats)
    https://www.betisweb.com/web/event/j-30-rc-celta-vs-rayo-vallecano/ (an event with just the minumum needed stats)

    League Table can be manually updated if you want. But I am not sure if that is more easy to maintain, than importing at the start of the season all the fixtures and just adding the results every match-day. It depends what the final user prefers 🙂

    We can always hide some blocks/boxes of data you dont want to show for the other teams. This can be done either with some custom code on sportspress templates, or with a simple css code.

    TL;DR: SportsPress (both free and PRO version) is more than capable to be used for a single club website.

    Thanks,
    Savvas

    Thread Starter tspencer1966

    (@tspencer1966)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi Savvas

    Ok, so I get I can opt to not add the players for all other teams, which I don’t want to do. As I do all this on a voluntary basis, and it would take too long to do every week. But I do want to include our players stats and match events, and also want to display the match evens on each event page. Which I can do, and see their match events, goals, assists etc, and love the fact it also includes the timings.

    But what I don’t want is the column for the opponents players stats to be on the events page, even when it doesn’t display any players match events in it, like on this event, https://new.hydeunited.co.uk/?sp_event=33083

    I can’t see a way of omitting that column using CSS, because that column uses the same CSS class ID. If there was a way to tell the plugin, that if a teams stats is empty, has no players lists, to not include that column, that would be ideal. Can that be done with code?

    You’re idea of adding the scores for all fixtures, would be a easy, and maybe quicker way of updating the league table. But I think it would have a knock on effect with some of the widgets, particularly, the countdown, event list when wanting to display last game and next game. Because in the Widgets I can’t see no way of specifying the team I want to display those for. Or is the solution to create a Calendar for just my teams fixttures and select that in the widget? Sorry, not looked at that part yet.

    I appreciate all the help you have given up to now, and want this to work so I can move our new site to using Sportspress. Am just frustrated that I can’t get the site to look how I want, and more frustrated I haven’t had a reply from the Helpdesk yet, all the help I’ve got is from you on this forum.

    Tony

    Plugin Contributor Savvas

    (@savvasha)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi @tspencer1966,

    For example, currently the event shows the following box-scores:

    You can copy event-performance.php from wp-content/plugins/sportspress/templates/ to wp-content/themes/your-child-theme/sportspress/ folder and add after line 274: if ( 41 != $team_id ) continue; Where 41 is the post_id of my team (lets say Eagles). Below the result:

    If you want to cover the full width then you can add also the following custom css code:

    .sp-template.sp-template-event-performance.sp-template-event-performance-icons {
    width: 100%;
}

    Or is the solution to create a Calendar for just my teams fixttures and select that in the widget?

    This is the most optimum solution I think.

    Thanks,
    Savvas

    Thread Starter tspencer1966

    (@tspencer1966)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi Savvas

    Does that custom CSS go into the additional CSS under the Customise Theme?

    I ask, because when I add the child theme, and the additional CSS, it does indeed make the opponents performance column disappear, and make our teams performance column full width. But also find that the widgets on the homepage are affected.

    Basically the margins on the side of the widgets on the homepage disappear, so the left edge of the widgets on the left hand side touch the left of the webpage, likewise for the widgets on the right of the page, there right edge touch the right of the webpage.

    Also the widgets at the top of the page touch the menu bar at the top, there is no top margin on the widgets at the top of the content area.

    Is there also some CSS code that would change the footer text, where i put addtional menu widgets, to white, and make them stay white even if they are visited pages?

    Plugin Contributor Savvas

    (@savvasha)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi @tspencer1966,

    What you referring above is more about theme fine tuning and not so relevant with SportsPress as a plugin. With CSS custom code you can format your theme as you want (mostly) but I cannot provide that kind of support without a link to your site. You may also need to come in contact with your theme developer which is more capable to assist you on tuning theme’s code.

    Thanks,
    Savvas

    Thread Starter tspencer1966

    (@tspencer1966)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi Savva

    Ignore all that. I had an error in my child theme that was causing issues, all corrected now.

    I’ve also been able to change the footer font colour with some CSS.

    I’ve also heard from the helpdesk, and awaiting another reply to my email reply to them.

    I’ve got a lot of work to do, as I need to import about 3 seasons worth of matches, socres, player lineups, grounds etc. I see that there is a way to import matches, scores, lineups. But don’t see that I can import grounds, is there no import function for that? If not I’ll just have to script something to import them when I’ve exported from the old DB.

    Plugin Contributor Savvas

    (@savvasha)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi @tspencer196,

    As long as you include the venues on your fixtures import, then SportsPress will identify and use those that already exist and will create the new ones.

    Thanks, Savvas

    Thread Starter tspencer1966

    (@tspencer1966)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Cheers Savva

    Just a few questions that have come up, when playing with it this morning:

    This should be it for a while, as I have a lot of work to do, importing stuff

    Player Performance
    I’ve added 2 additional Player Performance selections, Captain and Clean Sheet.

    These appear as options to select when I edit the match, but do not appear in the player performance section of the match when viewing it, but does appear in the players stats. Is there a way to make it appear on the match page?

    Also, I assume I can specity this in the csv when I import data into a match.

    Event Specs
    I’ve also added an Event Spec for Attendance, appears fine in the Details section when viewing the match. Again, I assume this is something I can’t specify in the CSV when I import the data into the match.

    Officials
    I guess this is for specifying the Refree and Assistant Referees. That said, I, again, assume I can’t specify these when I import data into a match.

    Players Page
    In this example of a player I had, https://new.hydeunited.co.uk/?sp_player=jack-redshaw, is there a way to remove the Club column from the player stats. Or, if not, remove the top section of stats and leave the Career Totals?

    I found this page when it comes to importing data, https://www.themeboy.com/blog/import-and-edit-existing-events/, but it speaks about Sportspress 2.5, is there a new page?

    Plugin Contributor Savvas

    (@savvasha)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Players Page
    Add the following custom css code to SportsPress->Settings->General->Custom Code

    th.data-team, td.data-team {
    display: none;
}

    Player Performance
    You need to add an icon to your performance to be shown. Except if you select at SportsPress->Settings->Events->Box Score->Mode the Values option. You can include them to your csv.

    Event Specs and Officials
    I am afraid currently you cannot add through import the event specs and the officials.

    Thanks,
    Savvas

    Thread Starter tspencer1966

    (@tspencer1966)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Great, all those worked fine, thanks.

    Plugin Contributor Savvas

    (@savvasha)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    I am glad you sorted out most of your current issues. 😊

    I am “closing” this topic as resolved. Please, next time open a new topic for each issue you may have. This way it will be easier for users with similar issues to give and find support.

    Thanks

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