Hi Carl,
Thank you for checking out my plugin!
It’s being actively developed and will keep evolving 🙂
Here are the steps to create a season roster:
1. Go to Teams > Seasons and create a season.
2. Go to Teams > Leagues and create a league.
3. Click Add Team to create a team. Be sure to select the season created in step 1 and the league created in step 2.
4. Go to Players > Add Player and create the players for the team. Be sure to select the team, season, and league from the steps above.
5. Go to Player Lists and create a new player list. Select the league, season, and team from the dropdowns. You may need to save once, and you will see a list of players from that season.
6. Click on the checkboxes to select the players you’d like to display in this list and Publish.
You can view this player list at any time, and it will display the players and their statistics.
We’re working on a way to select and deselect statistics to show, as well as displaying player photos. These will be included in future updates 🙂
Thanks for putting in the time and the effort. Really apreciated. I could easily follow your instructions. All looks great.
But… I’m afraid I asked the wrong question. English not being my first language, surely didnt help. Let me repphease my initial question:
How do I publish a list of games like:
Febr2:
team 1 vs Team 2, 14.00 hours
team 6 vs team 5, 11.00 hours
team 8 vs team 9, 16.15 hours
Febr9:
team 4 vs Team 7, 14.30 hours
etcetera, and so on, ranging the whole upcoming season.
Is that possible already?
C
Glad my work is appreciated 🙂
Regarding your question, the only way to display a list of games is by using the packaged widgets. By going to Appearances > Widgets, you’ll see some custom widgets that SportsPress has added. These widgets are labeled with a “T” symbol.
The following widgets can be used for displaying events:
Events Calendar – A calendar of events, similar to the regular Calendar. The dates with events are highlighted and will link to the event page when clicked. If 2 or more events occur on the same day, a daily archive of events will be displayed instead, and you can choose the event from there.
Recent Events – A list of games that have already been played. Similar to the Recent Posts widget in WP core.
Future Events – A list of games that have been scheduled.
These widgets are pretty basic as they have been designed to work with any theme, using the same markup as core WordPress widgets.
Please feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions for the plugin, as I’m working on it everyday and hope to improve it based on community feedback.
I’m getting the hang of it. One more question for today: I’m struggling to understand the difference between ‘outcomes’ en ‘results’ and how to use ‘m . Could you please explain?
BTW: I guess you aware the link to the Theme Integration Guide isnt working…
Oops, I should hide that link for now 🙂
Regarding outcomes and results, here’s a brief explanation:
Outcomes: the end outcome of a game, for example “Win”, “Loss”, “Draw”, “Overtime Loss”, etc. An outcome is either “true” or “false”, and they are used for calculating percentages and streaks in the league tables. Also, an event without an outcome is not counted toward league table numbers, so if you have a friendly match, it’s best not to select an outcome.
Results: various values measured in a game, for example, “Goals”, “Red Cards”, “Yellow Cards” for soccer, or “1st inning”, “2nd inning”, “3rd inning”, “Runs”, “Hits”, etc for baseball.
Hope that makes sense! I’ll definitely be writing some detailed documentation soon.
It DOES make sense, but it also ads to the confusion 🙂
Just to make sure: is the plugin designed to calculate scores and automatically add the data in the league table (points, # goals, matches played et cetera)?
We’ll have presets for most sports in the near future, so hopefully that makes it easier 🙂
Yup, the plugin calculates scores from the events and adds them to league tables, player profiles, and team profiles. The scores are organized by League and Season, so you can have teams belonging to multiple leagues and also generate a seasons archive over time.
That will definitely make it easier. Do you have a clue when these will be released? I need the american football module yesterday 🙂
C
Great, we’re aiming to have the presets done by the end of next week but I’ll see if we can prioritize American Football 🙂
Trust me, that would get you a massive ‘coffee’ 🙂
Haha, I wouldn’t mind that 🙂
I’ve just updated the plugin to version 0.2.3 which contains a preset for American Football.
To activate the preset, go to Settings > SportsPress and select “American Football”. If it is already selected, please select another sport, save, then select American Football and save again.
You’ll now see new statistics added under the “Players” tab on this page.
Player positions are also added automatically.
When adding statistics to a player, be sure to select their position (for example, QB) so that only the statistics for that position are displayed.
I hope this helps! The presets are still being tested so I’d love to get your feedback.
Cool! Guess what I’ll be doing this weekend 🙂
Awesome 🙂
By the way, I’ve just released version 0.2.4 which adds a better test for league table calculations (prevents dividing by zero) and also added a Google map to the venue archives.
Please feel free to let me know if you find any issues or have any suggestions for further improvements. Enjoy!
