Team Rosters 4.8.2 will appear in your admin dashboard in a couple of days. If MSTW Team Rosters 4.8.1, or for that matter 4.7, is working for you, there is NO NEED to update to version 4.8.2 which will be released in a few days. You won’t miss any new functionality. (BTW, automatically accepting updates to plugins is usually not a good idea.) I won’t bother you with the details here, but if you update what you may want to know can be found in this post.
If MSTW Team Rosters 4.8.1, or for that matter 4.7, is working for you, there is NO NEED to update to version 4.8.2 which will be released in a few days. (Hopefully, you don’t automatically accept updates to plugins, that’s usually not a good idea.) But if you do update there are some things you may need to know:
mstw-tr-custom-styles.css has been moved from the /themes/your-theme/ directory to /themes/your-theme/team-rosters/ directory.single-player.php template from the /themes/your-theme/ directory to the /themes/your-theme/team-rosters/ directory.taxonomy-team.php template from the /themes/your-theme/ directory to the /themes/your-theme/team-rosters/ directory.Finally, two issues that were created by the security upgrades in version 4.8.1 have been addressed in 4.8.2.
First, if you use Manage Players, edit a player, and then click on the permalink on the edit screen to view the player’s page, that functionality is broken in 4.8.1.
Second, if you use permalinks outside the plugin’s shortcodes, say something likehttp://your-site-url/player/player-name
to display player profiles, that too was broken in 4.8.1. (Thanks to my friend Brian for pointing this out. His site is pretty sexy, if you like baseball you should check it out thecardinalnation.com.)
My guess is that few users took advantage of either of these capabilities, but if you did, they fixed. If you wish to return to the “more secure” version that uses nonces as in 4.8.1, but you loaded 4.8.2 somehow, you can simply move one file from the plugin’s file directory to your theme’s file structure and you’ll be back to 4.8.1. You can read more about how to this here.
Yeah! The WordPress Security team has finally released MSTW Team Rosters (4.8.1) back into the wild. The process has been informative and the plugin is more secure. It is quite possible that the hundreds of changes on both the admin side and the front end (shortcodes) broke something. So if you see a problem that wasn’t there in 4.7, PLEASE post the issue to the WordPress MSTW Team Rosters support site (https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/team-rosters/) and I’ll get on it.
The MSTW Coaching Staffs plugin has been approved for release by the WordPress security team. This took MUCH longer than I expected, but now that I understand their objectives better, I hope that the MSTW Team Rosters plugin will be back online at wordpress.org shortly.
The plugin Nazis at wordpress.org have now decided that MSTW Coaching Staffs doesn’t meet their security standards, SO they have removed the plugin from wordpress.org until I address over 1000 “issues” they (their plugin checker tool) have identified as vital, despite the fact that it has worked great with no issues for going on ten years. ( I suspect they are slowing working through all the plugins on wordpress.org.) This will happen eventually. In the meantime, don’t worry it works great as before AND …
There is a free version (1.5) available in the store at shoalsummitsolutions.com.
If you really want more of the techy, nerdy details about all this, feel free to contact me.
It’s been quite an adventure since my last post. I’ll spare you the gory and sometimes painful details but here’s the four bullet point summary.
If you really want more of the techy, nerdy details about all this, feel free to contact me.
First, HAPPY HOLIDAYS to you all. I hope your fall seasons were a success and your winter seasons have started on a positive note.
I’m happy to report that the shoalsummitsolutions.com website has been recovered from the DOS attack. In the process, I changed hosting providers and redesigned the website to have more of a one page feel. The large array of menus at the top of the page is gone but all the features (almost, read on) are there. Before going into what’s next, I want to thank those of you who’ve experienced problems with communication with me, buying/renewing premium plugins, getting to the support forums, and so forth. Thanks for hanging in there.
The biggest challenge with the site migration was a move the PHP version 8 (8.2.26 to be exact). As some of you may have experienced, PHP8 tends to break a number of older plugins. This is not PHP’s fault, or WordPress’s fault, the blame lies on plugin developers (like me) not paying attention to a long string of warnings. It broke several of the plugins I use on shoalsummitsolutions.com (not MSTW plugins, read on).
Anyway, in this process the dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com site, which contained all the plugin demos, is being migrated into the main shoalsummitsolutions.com domain. I am currently retesting all the plugins on PHP 8, and updating the user’s manuals as necessary. I hope to have this done by the first of the year because I know the latest versions of a number of the MSTW plugins work on PHP8. (But you never know during the Holiday season.) SO, if you have upgrade requests for any of the plugins, please send them to me ASAP. Don’t rely on my lists, just jump back into the queue.
I am in the process of changing hosting providers. In the process both shoalsummitsolutions.com and dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com MAY experience intermittent outages. If you need support with manuals, products, forums, etc and the websites are down, please contact me directly mark@shoalsummitsolutions.com.
Version 4.6 of the MSTW Team Rosters plugin will be released later this week. It should appear on your plugins page, or you can pull it from WordPress.org. It contains the following features:
Custom ordering of fields/columns. The plugin now allows admins to customize the order of roster fields/plugins on the plugin’s Settings screen, similar to MSTW League Manager plugin. This applies only to custom roster types, other defined roster types like, pro, high-school, college, etc.
Players on multiple teams. Fixed the dropdown menu on the Player Profiles screen for players on multiple teams. The team’s players now display correctly. Note this is only an issue when a player is on multiple team. (For example, on the MSTW dev site, Willie Mays on the 1954 NY Giants and the 1962 SF Giants.)
Player Galleries. Improved the responsiveness of player galleries to the default data fields/columns (set on the Settings screen -> Roster Table Fields & Columns tab) and color (set on the Roster Table Colors tab) combined with any arguments provided to the shortcode.
Player Galleries Taxonomy Pages. Did you know Player Galleries can be displayed in two ways – the No team specified in shortcode.
shortcode and team taxonomy pages ?? The team taxonomy pages now accept the arguments that the shortcode accepts. See the link from team taxonomy pages above and/or the MSTW Team Rosters man pages for a more complete discussion.
New POEdit Template. Created a new POEdit Template file for I18N (translation) support.
VERSION 4.7
Development of version 4.7 will begin soon. It will include the initial implementation of multiple years for teams, and improvements to CSV Import/Export to move rosters between sites. If you have other items on your wish-list, please send me e-mail ASAP.
Team Rosters version 4.5 is now available on wordpress.org. This release includes a number of new features and several bug fixes. The significant enhancements include:
A complete summary of changes is available on this man page and in the plugin’s readme.txt file. The following video provides a summary of the color and data field settings for the [mstw-roster-table-2] shortcode.
What’s next? Several upgrades and clean-up chores are on the list:
If you have other requests now is the time to send them.