MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards Plugin Users Manual
MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards Plugin Overview
The MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards plugin manages multiple sports team schedules and scoreboards. A variety of shortcodes and widgets are … Continue reading
Add/Edit Game
The Games menu item allows you to add or edit the games on your schedule(s) using the screen shown below. … Continue reading
Add/Edit Schedule
The Schedules menu item allows you to link the teams from the Teams DB to Schedule ID’s (slugs). This essentially … Continue reading
Add/Edit Sport
The Sports menu item allows you to create various sports for your website. This field is used in the [mstw_schedule_table] … Continue reading
Add/Edit Team
The Teams menu item allows you to add or edit the teams on your schedule(s), including the home team. When … Continue reading
Add/Edit Venue
The admin screen shown below provides the ability to add or edit game venues. The fields are described below the … Continue reading
Adding a Game To a Scoreboard
The MSTW Scoreboards metabox in the right hand column of the Edit Game screen is shown below. To assign the game … Continue reading
Change Log
1.2 Added a scoreboard ‘ticker’ shortcode – a slider of games & scores intended for the top of pages. Added … Continue reading
Countdown Timer Shortcode
The countdown timer shortcode – [mstw_countdown_timer] – provides a countdown to the next game for a given schedule as shown … Continue reading
Countdown Timer Widget
The countdown timer SHORTCODE [mstw_gs_countdown] accepts the following three arguments: 1. sched=”schedule-slug” tells the shortcode what schedule to display. 2. … Continue reading
Creating Schedules with Team Logos … the right way
Schedules & Scoreboards supports the display of team logos in schedule sliders, schedule tables, scoreboards, and countdown timers. However, some … Continue reading
CSV File Formats
Several sample CSV format files are available in the plugin’s /csv-examples directory. Data for schedules, teams, venues, and games can … Continue reading
CSV Import
The CSV Import Admin Screen provides the ability to import any or all of the plugin’s data tables (Custom Post … Continue reading
Display Sport in Schedule Tables & Sliders
Schools and sports organizations frequently use one schedule table or slider to display the games for all their teams. This … Continue reading
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I put a game to a scoreboard? See the Adding a Game To a Scoreboard page. How do I … Continue reading
Installation
INSTALLATION NOTES: If you are upgrading, please read the upgrade notes. You won’t lose data but you COULD lose and … Continue reading
Known Bugs
Please report any bugs via the WordPress support forums or the MSTW Gold Support forums. Scoreboard filter on All Games … Continue reading
Managing Scoreboards
Access the All Games admin screen from the Games menu item. There is a Scoreboards column on that screen, which … Continue reading
Managing Venue Groups
Access the All Venues admin screen from the Venues menu item. There is a Venue Groups column on the far … Continue reading
MSTW Roles & Capabilities
The MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards and Team Rosters plugins create a number of custom WordPress capabilities, and assign them across three custom WordPress user roles - Continue reading
Schedule Slider Shortcode [mstw_schedule_slider]
The schedule slider shortcode is: [mstw_schedule_slider sched=schedule-slug] The sched argument is REQUIRED. Nothing will display without it. Many other arguments … Continue reading
Schedule Table Shortcode [mstw_schedule_table]
The Game Schedules table shortcode is: [mstw_schedule_table sched=schedule-slug] The sched argument is REQUIRED. Nothing will display without it. Many other … Continue reading
Schedule Table Widget
Coming Soon.
Scoreboard Shortcode [mstw_scoreboard]
NOTE: You must enter games using the teams database (specifically the opponent team) in order to use this shortcode. It … Continue reading
Settings – Colors
The Colors settings are shown in the following figure. Note that these settings will over-ride the defaults in the plugin’s … Continue reading
Settings – Data Fields & Columns
Coming Soon.
Settings – Time & Date Formats
The Date/Time formats are shown in the following figure. The fields and their values are self-explanatory. Note that if you … Continue reading
Settings – Venues
The Game Venues table layout is controlled by the plugin’s Display Settings and by the [shortcode]‘s arguments. The default settings … Continue reading
Settings (Admin Page)
The Settings admin page has tabs for Display, Scoreboards, as shown below. These tabs are discussed on the following pages: … Continue reading
Settings-Scoreboards
The following figure shows the Scoreboard Settings tab on the Settings Admin screen. The fields and options are fairly self-explanatory.
Styling the Plugin’s Front End Displays
The plugin has a default stylesheet, /css/mstw-ss-styles.css, which applies to all front end elements – shortcodes, widgets, and page templates. … Continue reading
Upgrading to Schedules & Scoreboards
This article explains the steps required to upgrade from Game Locations and/or Game Schedules to the new MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards plugin, which replaces both of them. Two video tutorials on this subject (exporting to and importing from CSV files) … Continue reading
Venue Table Shortcode [mstw_venue_table]
The game venues shortcode [mstw_venue_table] supports the display of a table of game venues as shown below. No arguments are … Continue reading
Why a Child Theme?
Three paragraphs for WordPress newbies on why you ALWAYS want to use a child theme. Continue reading