Version 1.3 of the MSTW League Standings plugin was just released to address two bugs:
1. Under certain circumstances, standings could be incorrect due to a sorting error. For example, when sorting by rank, 1, 2, 04, 4, 16, 21 could sort incorrectly (alphabetically instead of numerically) as 04, 1, 16, 2, 21, 4.
2. A perfect win percentage would display as 1. It now displays as 1.000.
Version 4.0.1 addresses the following issues:
Note: There has been a request to change switch hitters from Bats – ‘B’ (both) to ‘S’ (switch). I do not plan to tail chase this terminology as sites such as MLB.com change it. The ‘B’ for bats both is translation ready. You can simply create a en_US translation with one entry ‘B’ -> ‘S’, and you’ve got it.
Based on feedback from some of you, here are a couple of new FAQs:
I installed version 4.0 (without reading the fine manual) and all my data is gone! @*?*$^&#!! Please tell me I did not lose 3 years of data!
No, you did not lose your data, you just can’t see it via version 4.0 of the plugin. Deactivate version 4.0 (I don’t believe you have to uninstall it.) and reinstall version 3.1.2, which is available on wordpress.org. You will have to download the zip file and install it as a zip file. Then follow the upgrade instructions in the users manual.
Why do I get the message “Cheatin’ huh?” when I try to access some admin screens after installing version 4.0?
This problem is related to the WP Roles & Capabilities system and the MSTW roles & capabilities that control access to the Team Rosters admin screens. The appropriate MSTW capabilities are assigned to the Administrator role when the plugin is activated (and only then). So assuming you are logged in as an administrator, de-activating and re-activating the plugin usually does the trick.
Why do I get the following message on some front-end displays, e.g., Player Galleries?
Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given in /home/mdorum/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/team-rosters/includes/mstw-tr-utility-functions.php on line 755
I believe this only occurs when viewing the front end displays BEFORE accessing the back end Team Roster admin screens AND MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards is active. I believe simply visiting the Team Roster admin pages (any page) fixes this problem. (Please let me know if it doesn’t.)
I have patched this issue. If you pull the includes/mstw-tr-utility-functions.php file from the development tree, this problem is corrected there.
Finally, these messages were WARNINGS, not ERRORS (which “white screen” the site). While I work hard to eliminate such messages, they should not harm your site, because they should be disabled completely or directed to the debug.log file on a live site. Information on managing these messages is readily available on the web, including on shoalsummitsolutions.com.
MSTW CSV Exporter 1.2 is now available. It is CRITICAL to upgrading Team Rosters from version 3.1.2 to version 4.0. New features include:
NOTE: THE TEAM ROSTERS DATA STRUCTURES FOR PLAYERS AND TEAMS HAVE CHANGED IN VERSION 4.0. So if you plan to upgrade from version 3.1.2, PLEASE READ THE USERS MANUAL BEFORE UPGRADING. There are steps you will have to take in order to preserve your existing data.
Please see the MSTW CSV Exporter users manual at ShoalSummitSolutions.com for more information.
Team Rosters version 4.0 is on schedule for a late spring release. This update has a few front end enhancements, but the focus is on ‘admin issues’, specifically integration other MSTW plugins and increased customization options.
I am making the following tutorials available to the MSTW mailing list as pre-release peek at version 4.0. They are a bit long, so you may want to read the text, save the email, and come back to the videos when you are upgrading to Team Rosters version 4.0. They will also be available to Gold Support Members on the shoalsummitsolutions.com Support -> Tutorials page.
There are three ways to customize the colors in the Team Rosters v4.0 plugin: the colors tab on the Settings admin page, writing custom CSS rules where the stylesheet can now be in the theme/child theme directory, and a new setting to automatically set the table colors from the MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards teams database.
There are three ways to customize the team logos (and default images when no player photo is found) in Team Rosters v4.0: use the logos in the MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards database, set the default logos in the plugin’s /images/default-images/ directory, or set the default logos in the theme or child theme’s /mstw-team-rosters-images/ directory (which you create).
The default Single Player and Player Gallery templates are located in the plugin’s /theme-templates/ directory. Usually, only some CSS modifications are required to make these templates “fit” in a theme. Occasionally, these templates require code modifications to meet a sites requirements. In version 4.0, the plugin’s default templates never need to be modified. Rather, one should create custom templates in the theme’s (or child theme’s) main directory. By doing so, the customizations are not overwritten when a plugin update is loaded. If a child theme is used, they are not overwritten by a theme update either.
There was a bug in Schedules & Scoreboards v1.3 that generates a fatal error when you access your dashboard. (You will NOT see if you have the MSTW CSV Exporter plugin installed.) It has been patched in version 1.3 WITHOUT a version change, and in the development trunk. If you have already installed version 1.3, simply delete it and re-install it. If you want to load the patch without deleting and re-installing the entire plugin, simply update the plugin’s mstw-ss-admin.php file in the /includes directory with the same file from the development trunk or the new version 1.3. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Version 1.3 of the Schedules & Scoreboards plugin was released today. It is largely a maintenance build, but it also provides a cool new feature for users/admins who write custom CSS rules for their site, and better control of home game styling.
/css/mstw-ss-styles.css stylesheet. So your site’s custom styles can be stored separately from the plugin’s stylesheet, simplifying the plugin upgrade process. Learn how to utilize this new feature here.HEY, wait a minute! I thought you were working on a really cool new Team Rosters release? Yup, I sure am. I reached the point where I needed to add the team color data fields, so I fixed the other issues ‘on the list’ while I was in there. Team Rosters is moving along with lots of cool new features, not to mention maybe one bug fix :). I’m still shooting for an early summer release. Look for a progress update in the next week or two.
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I got back into the MSTW Team Rosters plugin to answer a support question yesterday, and got a bit nauseous. It’s past time for a MAJOR overhaul to fix some problems, add some features that have been requested, and improve integration with the overall MSTW Framework.
A couple of days ago a user asked on the WordPress forums about increased responsiveness of this plugin to better support mobile applications. That would certainly be nice, and I’ve thought about that issue with the entire MSTW plugin family. Here’s my thought. Tables are provided in the HTML spec for, well, data tables. They are intended to display many columns, and many rows, like say, a roster. Sure one could create a table entire with CSS that would do a reasonable job of adjusting to small screens. But it seems to me that would lose the informational content of a table. It doesn’t seem to make sense for a roster to become two or three columns with data fields hop-scotching their way down the screen. So I’m thinking about the following for small screens. First, restrict roster tables to two or three columns; maybe a photo, name, and number. They would still be tables, but they would fit on small screens. Then make the single player profiles much more responsive. They are not tables and should display their reasonably well on small screens. As for player galleries, those *could* be more responsive, but is it worth the effort is the single player profiles work well on small screens? Who wants a gallery that’s a single column of players? Hummm ….
One thing that will happen is the plugin’s custom post types and custom taxonomies will get new names, which will prevent collisions with sports themes and other sports plugins. This means that when you upgrade to the next release, you will have to export your existing data to CSV files and import it back into the new plugin. The MSTW CSV Exporter plugin and the Team Rosters import function will both be updated to support this migration.
SO, now’s the time to send me your suggestions for improvements and requests for new features that would make the plugin work better for you. You can contact me via the contact form on this site or e-mail me directly. [mark@shoalsummitsolutions.com] No promises, but the chances are low that I’ll add exactly what you need if you don’t tell me what that is. 🙂
Three new video tutorials for the MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards plugin are now available to Gold Support members. Styling the Scoreboard Ticker, Styling the Schedule Slider, and Styling the Schedule Table walk you through creating custom CSS for individual scoreboards and schedules shortcode displays starting from the code snippets which are available for this purpose. Here’s a quick preview:
Version 1.2 of MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards introduces three new features:
Scoreboard Ticker. The scoreboard ticker format is a slider intended for use at the top of your site’s pages.
Scoreboard Settings. A robust set of layout and color settings is now available for both the scoreboard gallery and ticker formats. The plugin’s stylesheet may also be edited to customize these views.
Import “human-readable” CSV files. The initial import capability was based on the MSTW CSV Exporter format for game schedules. The exporter generates UNIX timestamps for game dates and times. [Computers like that format; most humans, not so much.] The schedule importer now also recognizes game dates and times as human-readable strings, for example, “20141230 15:27“.
The users manual is being updated, and additional Gold Support tutorials and code snippets are in the works. Please report any bugs to the WordPress.org forums or the Gold Support Forums.