• ckrauter

    (@ckrauter)


    Can you search for specific members in the roster? Or is there no search function?

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  • Plugin Author Mark O’Donnell

    (@markodonnell)

    I’m not sure I understand your question? Are you talking about the front end or the back end? Which screens? For example, on the Manage Players admin screen you can search for a player in the search box and the top right side of the screen.

    Thread Starter ckrauter

    (@ckrauter)

    My bad for not being very specific. I mean a frontend search, like a search bar I could add to my site where users could search for a certain name in the roster. I’m trying to make a site with multiple pages for different sports teams at my school and searching a name would result in only displaying the name they searched for on the page. Thanks!

    Plugin Author Mark O’Donnell

    (@markodonnell)

    Short answer: not really

    Longer answer: there are some options:

    1. If you use the player gallery (shortcode or taxonomy) for a team and you selecte a player, you get a player page like this one: https://dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com/player/aaron-rodgers/?roster_type=college&team=cal-bears which has sort of a search box and the top left listing all the players on a team.
    2. If you use roster tables you can sort by number and name, which isn’t exactly a search but it could be useful https://dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com/test-roster-plugin/
    3. If you use roster tables 2 you can sort by all the data fields. https://dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com/team-rosters-2/

    It would not be hard to write a search function by team and player. Pretty easy really. I’ll add it to “the list”. When would you need such a thing?

    Thread Starter ckrauter

    (@ckrauter)

    I have some coding experience but only in Java, so I could try to write it myself too but I have no idea how to do it with WordPress in mind haha. I’m working on making the site now, so I’d be able to use it asap, but I know you’re probably too busy to get to it for a while.

    Plugin Author Mark O’Donnell

    (@markodonnell)

    I have some time to do it. I’m looking at how to do it so it would be useful to the larger user base. (In general a user who needs a feature contributes a bit for it, but nothing near the entire cost. In exchange for not paying the full amount, the user doesn’t ask for any rights to the result. There have been users who pay for the whole thing and then want to own the result, but that’s rare.) Anyway, what are your thoughts on exactly what the search funtion would do. Pick a team (from a drop down list) then search for a player using a text box? Just a text box to search for a player? Then what would you see? A list of players that match the search? Then what? You click on a player and see their bio page?
    Let me know your thoughts.

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