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Website fully recovered … finally!

First, HAPPY HOLIDAYS to you all. I hope your fall seasons were a success and your winter seasons have started on a positive note.

Shoal Summit Solutions

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.

Updating Website

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 [email protected].

MSTW Team Rosters 4.6 Release

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 [mstw-tr-gallery] 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 4.5

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:

  • Upgrading the Data Fields and Columns settings to allow columns to be re-positioned.
  • Investigate adding a year for each roster, and allowing the capability to move a team’s players from one year’s roster to the next year, perhaps updating the applicable information like class and experience and ‘graduating’ seniors.
  • Add the recently added fields like ‘long position’ and ‘long class’ to the CSV import feature and re-test.
  • Clean up the player photo size mess. I’m not settled on what to do here, but the player photos may be locked in at 125×125 px. (Scaling appropriately when resizing windows. I recommend using this size until this gets sorted out.

If you have other requests now is the time to send them.

MSTW Bracket Builder Version 1.3

Version 1.3 of the MSTW Bracket Builder Free and Premium plugins is now available. Users of the free version should have been notified in their Admin Dashboard about the upgrade on WordPress.org. Users of the premium version may now download it from the MSTW Store (www.shoalsummitsolutions.com -> Store -> All My Downloads). If version 1.2 is working great for you, there’s no pressing reason to download this version. You can read more about why it is (or will soon be) necessary in this post.

MSTW Team Rosters 4.4

MSTW Team Rosters 4.4 will be released soon. It contains three new features:

  • The new [mstw-tr-roster-2] shortcode (display shown below).
  • Added a new “long format” player position (shown in the shortcode display below)
  • Worked on improved responsiveness of this page, and re-worked the player profile/bio page display to greatly improve its responsiveness.

The man page for the shortcode is available here.

A quick introduction to the [mstw-tr-roster-2] shortcode:

Team Rosters 4.3

An update to Team Rosters 4.3 should have appeared in your admin panel. It has two new features:

  • The Settings link from the plugins page now works (most people don’t use this, but it’s there and can be convenient)
  • A dropdown menu of all players on a selected team appears on the player bio page for all players on that team

If you don’t particularly need these features, there’s no real need to update.

New Features in the Next Release

New features are planned for future releases. The list of features has not been finalized for any version. Some requests are:

  • A dropdown menu to switch between teams in the roster table and gallery views, much like the new dropdown on the single player bio page
  • Increases control/flexibility of the data fields displayed in the roster table, gallery, and single player bio views
  • Upgraded views of roster tables
  • Improved control of the size of player photos ( a feature that definitely has some issues right now)
  • Addition of a year (season) to each roster, so one can build an organized history of a team’s rosters

If you have something you would like to see in a future release of Team Rosters, now is the time to send them to me via e-mail.

MSTW League Manager & Add-ons 2.10

Version 2.10 of MSTW League Manager and League Manager Add-ons has been released.

What’s New

The primary new functionality is improved handling of Overtime Games when Standings are being auto-calculated using MTW League Manager Add-ons. In fact, until this version, there was no way to indicate that a game ended in overtime so the auto-fill of standings could process it correctly.

Several new videos are available on League Manager, including how to handle overtime games with and without the MSTW League Manager plugin. Visit shoalsummitsolutions.com to view them.

Other than that, you can read about the minor changes in the Change Logs in the readme files or on the website – MSTW League Manager Change Log or MSTW League Manager Add-ons Change Log.

MSTW League Manager 2.9 Released

MSTW League Manager and MSTW League Manager Add-ons plugins have been released. The biggest new features are new League Manger administrator roles, which allow distribution of the admin workload, and enhanced management of overtime games.

New Admin Roles

The three new admin roles – team, school, and league admins – allow WordPress site administrators to distribute site maintenance duties, specifically the maintenance of games and schedules, across a controlled user base. Check out this video to learn more about this new capability.

Enhanced Support for Overtime Games

In previous versions of the MSTW League Manager plugin, overtime games and their impact on league standings could be managed adequately using team records, that is, NOT using the standing auto-fill capability in MSTW League Manager Add-ons. Enhancements to LM Add-ons allow overtime games to be included in the points calculations for league standings. Check out these videos to learn more about managing overtime games. Without the Add-ons. With the Add-ons (and auto-fill standings.)

How to access the new versions

The versions of MSTW League Manager and MSTW League Manager Add-ons on your site should always match. MSTW League Manager may be updated from your admin dashboard. If you have purchased the MSTW LM Add-ons plugin, you may download version 2.9 from the shoalsummitsolutions.com website. Go the the Store on the top menu, and select “My Downloads” to download new version.