Title: Free Text input / Reduced functionality
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Free Text input / Reduced functionality

 *  [EasyWhenYouKnowIT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/easywhenyouknowit/)
 * (@easywhenyouknowit)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/free-text-input-reduced-functionality/)
 * Hi again, loving the latest updates and thanks for implementing my last suggestion.
 * One thing I have noticed (unless I have missed something) is that both teams 
   must exist before an event can be created? For leagues this is fine and as I’d
   expect but let’s just say for example there are a series of pre-season friendly
   matches / early cup matches arranged with 2 teams in different leagues (or countries
   if the team was touring.) Whilst it’s not a massive issue to create a team for
   just for that fixture I can’t help thinking it would be easier to have a free
   text box for inputting the visiting team name. Another example where this would
   help is for junior clubs with many teams – I did one a while ago where they only
   wanted to have their own teams to have a page on the site. They simply wanted
   a page for that team showing upcoming fixtures and a box to input the result 
   once the match had been played. That way they didn’t have to maintain a full 
   league system with all teams (they had around 50 junior teams all in different
   leagues so maintaining all the results would have been a full time job!) It does
   cut out a lot of functionality that is already present but at the moment I don’t
   think the plugin allows for scaling back as much as it could and therefore will
   alienate those with less time.
 * Obviously this is just a suggestion, but I imagine quite a few users would benefit
   from being able to choose to run with a reduced functionality and as it’s already
   in the code, shouldn’t be too hard to implement.
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 *  Plugin Author [ThemeBoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themeboy/)
 * (@themeboy)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/free-text-input-reduced-functionality/#post-4914500)
 * Hi Phill,
 * Thanks for your detailed feedback. I totally agree with you. I think your solution
   would work perfectly for teams that are one-time appearances. We’ll also look
   into adding an option to create teams without full profiles.
 * The next major update (version 0.9) is due next week so we’ll try to work it 
   in by then. I’ll keep you posted 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [EasyWhenYouKnowIT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/easywhenyouknowit/)
 * (@easywhenyouknowit)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/free-text-input-reduced-functionality/#post-4914761)
 * Thanks for taking it on board, I assume other things took priority over this 
   for the latest versions since I posted but I hope it will get in soon. Is the
   final release going to be chargeable by the way or can I donate to it somewhere?
 *  Plugin Author [ThemeBoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themeboy/)
 * (@themeboy)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/free-text-input-reduced-functionality/#post-4914765)
 * Hi again!
 * Thanks for following up.
 * We’re looking to add this feature in an update soon, although it didn’t make 
   it into version 0.9. SportsPress is an open source project so it will remain 
   free, even after the official launch. We have a donate button on the main page
   of this plugin, and we’re also working on some premium themes and extensions 
   that you may be interested in. The first theme and extension will be released
   at the end of this week 🙂

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