Football Pool
详情介绍:
This plugin adds a fantasy sports pool to your blog. Visitors of your website can predict outcomes of matches and earn extra points with bonus questions. Every player can view scores and charts of the other pool contenders.
The plugin installs some custom tables in the database and includes match information for the UEFA 2024 Championship, but it can be easily updated with match info for other championships or sports. Note: deactivating the plugin may delete all plugin data from your database. To avoid this, make sure the "keep data on uninstall" option is enabled in the settings (it’s on by default since version 2.3.1).
I originally coded this pool in PHP as a standalone website for the UEFA 2000 championship and rewrote it several times for every European Championship and World Cup since. I kept adding features every year. In 2012, I turned it into a WordPress plugin and uploaded it to the plugin directory. I hope you enjoy it.
A special thank you to everyone who donated, helped translate, reported bugs, or contributed in any other way to improving the plugin!
Features
- Users can predict match outcomes.
- Automatic calculation of the pool ranking, or define a custom ranking for a group of matches.
- You can add bonus questions for extra fun (single answer and multiple choice).
- Add your own teams and match data for other competitions.
- Import or export game schedules.
- Automatically calculate championship standings.
- Flexible scoring options.
- Built-in pages and shortcodes to display the pool on your blog.
- Optional user leagues.
- Score charts showing player progress and comparisons (requires separate Highcharts API download).
- Widgets and shortcodes to display match and pool info.
- Extra info pages for venues and teams.
- Add custom functionality with filters and actions.
- WP-CLI support for ranking calculations (faster than admin-side calculations).
- WP-CLI support for importing match results from a CSV file.
- Requires WordPress 4.8+, PHP 7.4+, and jQuery 1.4.3+.
- For charts, download the Highcharts API (see the installation instructions or the help page in the admin).
安装:
To use a custom translation, see the FAQ for more info.
- Upload
football-pool.zipvia the plugin panel, or unzip and upload thefootball-poolfolder to your/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin in the Plugins panel.
- Configure the plugin via the admin menu.
- Optional: Add pool pages to your menu or link to them manually.
- Optional: Add Football Pool widgets to your sidebar.
- Optional: Add bonus questions.
- Optional: Upgrade existing site users to pool players.
- To use the chart feature, download the Highcharts API and place the
highcharts.jsfile in/wp-content/plugins/highcharts-js/highcharts.js. Use the classic JS file with styling. If using the theme-less version, include the Highcharts CSS in your theme.
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常见问题:
Wow, there are a lot of options. Do I need to change them?
You can, but it's not required. The plugin works just fine with the default settings. Feel free to explore and tweak the options before kicking off your pool.
The ranking calculation shows an estimated time left of several hours. Why?
The time estimate is based on how long a single calculation step takes, multiplied by the total number of remaining steps. If the early steps are slower (especially if step sizes are set large in wp-config.php), the initial estimate might seem way too long.
Or… you might just have a huge database with tons of users, matches, and rankings. In that case, the estimate could be accurate. For reference: with 2,000 users, 50 matches, a few bonus questions, and 3 custom rankings, a full calculation took around 45 minutes on my laptop (using default step sizes). Running the same job via WP-CLI took under 10 minutes.
Do you have a theme I can use with the plugin?
Nope. I'm a developer, not a designer — so I haven’t created a theme.
I installed the plugin, but there are no matches. What happened?
Since version 2.0.0, matches aren't added automatically. But there's a sample schedule (CSV file) bundled with the plugin. Just go to the Matches admin page and use the "Import matches" option to load it.
Do I need the "Predictions" page?
Technically, yes. The plugin uses this page to display user predictions. So don’t delete it. However, if you don’t want it in your site’s menu, simply remove it via Appearance » Menus. Some themes automatically add all top-level pages to the menu. Check your theme’s documentation to see how to exclude pages or build a custom menu.
I want to use the plugin for a national competition. Is that possible?
Absolutely. You’ve got two options:
- Upload a match schedule CSV in the admin. You’ll find an example in
/data/schedulesin the plugin folder. - Use the admin screens to manually add all the teams, groups, match types, and matches.
The charts are gone! What happened?
Due to WordPress plugin license rules, the required charting library had to be removed. If you want charts back, check the Help page in the admin for how to manually install the required library. Also, make sure you haven’t enabled the “simple calculation method” in the plugin settings. That mode skips historical data — it’s faster, but charts won’t work.
I don't see my blog users as players of the pool.
Go to WordPress Admin » Football Pool » Users and check if those users are assigned to a league (if you’re using leagues). New users are added automatically, but existing ones must be added manually. To make someone a player: assign them to a league and save. If you delete a league, you’ll need to reassign those users. Not using leagues? Just make sure users haven’t been removed from the pool via the Users screen.
Is there a translation available?
Yes! Check this page for available language packs. To create your own translation:
- Visit translate.wordpress.org
- Or use a tool like Poedit
- Upload your translation to the site, and contact a PTE to approve it
- Or apply to become a PTE yourself
wp-content/uploads/football-pool/languages and use this extension plugin to load them.
The default content for the rules page is stored in rules-page-content-*locale*.txt (e.g., rules-page-content-nl_NL.txt) — this isn't managed by the Polyglot system. If you translate it and send it to me, I’ll add it to the plugin (with credit, of course).
I installed the plugin, but it doesn’t look like your screenshots.
That’s expected. The plugin includes basic layout styles, but it won’t change your site’s entire look. You’ll need to customize the styles yourself to make everything fit your design. Use your theme’s CSS or a custom CSS plugin to override styles. Don’t edit the plugin’s CSS files directly — your changes will be lost when you update the plugin.
更新日志:
2.12.6
- Tweak: Some refactoring of the Widget classes.
- Bug fix: Activate function throws an "Uncaught TypeError" on activation when activating via WP CLI.
- Bug fix: Fix for XSS vulnerability in some shortcode functions.
- Tweak: Some updates to the help page.
- Bug fix: Fix for XSS vulnerability (admin interface only).
- Bug fix: Moved translation strings inside classes to prevent early loading of textdomain.
- Bug fix: Fix for CSRF vulnerability.
- Bug fix: some parts of the code did not cast the league to int when passing it to the get_pool_ranking_limited() function. Thanks to Colin for reporting.
- Bug fix: Accidentally removed tags around title for the widgets. This has been restored. Thanks to @spaniole for reporting this.
- New: Goal difference bonus now has a setting that defines on which scores the bonus applies (existing installs will keep using the old rules until you change the setting).
- New: Match predictions view on the statistics page now has some extra CSS classes on the table row to show how the score was build up (e.g. toto score plus goal bonus).
- New: Added a print stylesheet for the audit log to remove some clutter from the print of the page.
- New: Extra option to enable or disable showing the admin answer for closed bonus questions on the prediction form.
- New: Added option to send an email notification when a new shoutbox message was saved. Uses the default wp_mail() function.
- Update: Changed the maximum amount of characters for the shoutbox messages to 65,535 (but default setting is still a max of 150 chars).
- Update: When a shoutbox message save fails, it will show a message for the user and keep their text in the input field to try again.
- Update: Also added the
todayCSS class to the matches view. - Tweak: Some clean-up in the widget classes.
- Tweak: Fixed some deprecation warnings (explode(): Passing null to parameter #2).
- Tweak: Added some wp_doing_cron() checks.
- Tweak: Some code reformatting.
- Bug fix: In rare occasions the first chart for the statistics page was defined as a line chart, where it should have been a column chart. Thanks to @pekos for reporting the bug.
- Bug fix: Removed a XSS vulnerability in the bonus questions admin.
- Bug fix: Removed a XSS vulnerability from the teams page and matches page.
- Bug fix: Removed a XSS vulnerability in the bonus questions admin.
- Update: Added the Copa América 2024 championship schedule.
- Bug fix: Removed a bug in the CSV importer.
- Bug fix: Removed some PHP8 language constructs that caused a critical error on PHP7 installs. Thanks to @batigol09 and @ryan944 for reporting.
- Update: Also the Football Pool admin roles (football pool admin, match editor and question editor) get the WP toolbar when logged in. The users can set their personal preference (show or hide) in their profile.
- Update: Added some extra classes to the match cards on the prediction form:
no-predictionfor matches with no prediction,todayfor matches that are on the current day. - Bug fix: Fixed an "Undefined index" notice in the CLI command for creating test users when there are no matches.
- Update: Fixed the venues for the final rounds in the UEFA EURO 2024 championship schedule.
- Update: Added the UEFA EURO 2024 championship schedule.
- Bug fix: Shortcode [fp-countdown] now exits gracefully when it is set to countdown to a match, but no first or next match is found. Thanks Frans Jansen for reporting this error.
- New: [fp-next-match-form] shortcode to show a form of only the next match(es).
- Tweak: Small change in the test data CLI method.
- Tweak: Bumped the jQuery version for the TinyMCE dialog to 3.7.1.
- Bug fix: Removed a XSS vulnerability from some shortcodes (low priority).
- Updated: Removed admin icon from plugin assets and added SVG base64 URI in menu definition.
- Tweak: Removed deprecated warning for dynamic property in Football_Pool_Pool class.
- Tweak: Some refactoring of code.
- Tweak: Stop loading of plugin when doing cron actions (only needed if I ever decide to add cron actions).
- Bug fix: In some edge cases the setting "Fix incomplete predictions" could cause points to be awarded when both scores for a match are missing. Thanks fimo66 and Markus Höcker for reporting the bug.
- Tweak: Some refactoring of code.
- Updated: Changed the required PHP version to 7.4.
- Bug fix: League dropdown in the user admin caused a fatal error in certain cases. Thanks Ron Robinson for reporting the issue.
- Bug fix: fp-matches caused a fatal error for empty parameters. Thanks @wongjowo for reporting the issue.
- New: Audit log in the admin for the administrator to view all saves that users did in their predictions.
- New: Added cache group to WP object cache calls to be able to exclude it from persistent caching plugins.
- New: Option to consider a null value for an incomplete prediction (e.g. only home score entered) as valid and default the missing value to 0.
- New: Shortcode [fp-last-matches] that displays the last started matches before a certain date. Similar parameters as [fp-next-matches].
- New: Added parameters to the [fp-user-list] to limit the output with the 'num' parameter and to display only the latest registrations (based on and ordered by the WP_User's user_registered field) with the 'latest' parameter.
- New: Added 'is_favorite' parameter to teams. This parameter is used to add an extra CSS class to matches.
- Updated: AJAX saves on the frontend are now disabled by default and I made it a setting in the options screen (but it can also still be changed via the FOOTBALLPOOL_FRONTEND_AJAX constant in the wp-config).
- Updated: Changed the required PHP version to 7.3.
- Updated: Removed deprecated code for loading custom MO files. This should be done via the 'override_load_textdomain' filter. See FAQ for more info.
- Updated: Removed league ID from the sorting of the ranking.
- Tweak: Added different admin screen option 'items per page' settings for bonus questions and user answers.
- Tweak: Removed the old wp_enqueue_media check for WP versions lower than 3.5 (this is no longer needed).
- Tweak: Fixed some deprecated warnings (tested in PHP 8.1).
- Tweak: Toast on the prediction form now has a default z-index of 10.
- Tweak: Minor changes to the bonus question CSS.
- Bug fix: The countdown shortcode for the first match removed one element of the matches array and this caused trouble for other elements in the plugin that use the same array reference. Thanks @angelo079 for reporting and @shuhads for helping to sort this out.
- Bug fix: Removed duplicate calculation buttons when removing multiple match types at once.
- Bug fix: Fixed the Bonus question pie chart. Thanks @fimo66 for reporting the issue.
- Updated: Changed the match schedule because some matches had the wrong UTC time (last games of the group phase and in the final rounds).
- Updated: Changed the match schedule because the first couple of lines had the wrong year.
- Updated: Changed the match schedule because FIFA changed the Qatar vs. Ecuador match date.
- New: Added a setting to also show the actual result on the prediction form.
- New: Added a setting to be able to disable the 'unsaved changes check' on the prediction form.
- New: Shortcode [fp-user-score] now also supports the "use_querystring" parameter.
- New: Added a setting to disable the automatic selection of the logged on user for the compare function in the charts.
- New: Multiple joker support (for the entire pool or per match type). I also renamed the Joker to 'multiplier'.
- New: Multiplier, bonus question answers and match predictions are now automatically saved via AJAX calls on the front-end (on change). AJAX saves can be disabled via the
FOOTBALLPOOL_FRONTEND_AJAXconstant in the wp-config if you do not like the new asynchronous method. - New: The default delimiter for CSV files (match import) is changed to a comma. If you want to keep using the old delimiter (semicolon), you can override this setting in the wp-config (see help page for details).
- New: If you want to use an alternative date format in a matches CSV file, you can now define constant
FOOTBALLPOOL_CSV_DATE_FORMATin your wp-config file. The constant uses the date format convention of PHP's DateTime object and applies to both import and export files. - New: CLI command 'football-pool test-data' that creates test users in your database with random predictions (for testing purposes).
- New: Added support for the WP Personal Data Exporter tool. Users can request to export their personal data which now will also include their Football Pool data (league name, match predictions and bonus question answers).
- New: Added support for the WP Personal Data Eraser tool. When the option is set to true (defaults to false) the plugin will also erase predictions and question answers for a user when using WP's Personal Data Eraser tool.
- Tweak: Renamed the [fp-scores] shortcode to [fp-match-scores]. Old name is deprecated and will remain available for a couple of versions before I will remove it.
- New: [fp-match-scores] shortcode can now also show the row total via the 'show_total' parameter.
- New: [fp-match-scores] shortcode can now also output the user's prediction per match (instead of or next to the points).
- New: [fp-question-scores] to show a matrix of users and the scores they got on questions (uses same principles as the [fp-match-scores] shortcode for matches).
- New: [fp-last-calc-date] to show the date and time of the last ranking calculation.
- New: Two new admin roles (match editor and question editor).
- New: Bonus question output now also has a filter that can be used in an extension. Also, the code for user view and prediction page is combined into one output function (to get the same HTML structure for the question blocks).
- New: Bonus question statistics view now also has a template that can be overwritten with a filter.
- New: Added 'joker_used' indicator to the score history tables.
- New: Added constant
FOOTBALLPOOL_TOP_PLAYERSthat you can set in the wp-config if you want to show a different number of players in the default statistics page (default is 5). - Tweak: Bumped the jQuery version for the TinyMCE dialog to 3.6.0.
- Tweak: Some small additions to the help page.
- Tweak: Updated the icon font that comes with the plugin (also some class names have changed).
- Tweak: Optimized the ranking query for big data sets when selecting ranking for a small league (sub set of users).
- Tweak: Changed all colors in the admin to match the new admin WP 5.7 color palette.
- Tweak: Added floating 'back to top' button to all admin pages and a scroll progressbar.
- Tweak: Minor changes to the match table CSS.
- Tweak: Clean up of bonus question CSS.
- Tweak: Added maxWidth and maxHeight to the ColorBox modal that is used for displaying team photos on the front-end.
- Tweak: Question's answer-before-date is now also localized on the front-end.
- Tweak: Score calculation now throws a fatal error when the default ranking is missing in the database.
- Tweak: Increased the max int sizes for the counter columns in the scorehistory tables.
- Bug fix: Fixed a compatibility problem with the Max Mega Menu plugin (thanks Holger for reporting this).
- Bug fix: User profile page showed the wrong active league for the user.
- Bug fix: Match types could be deleted when there were still matches linked to it. This resulted in orphaned matches in the database. Thanks Andreas Neubrech for reporting this.
- Bug fix: When a logged in user, but not a player in the pool, visited the stats page, then an empty page was shown, instead of the top X players.
- Bug fix: When a logged in user, but not a player in the pool, visited the user page, an incorrect page was shown.
- Bug fix: When score date is automatically filled by the plugin, then the question was not included in the calcution when immediately starting the calculation. Thanks fimo66 for reporting this.
- Bug fix: Fixed some translations. Thanks digiblogger for reporting this.
- Clean-up: I removed all old translation files from the package. Contents of the translation files were imported to the WordPress translation website and can be maintained from there. The POT-file is still available as start point for custom translations, or you can download a PO language file from the translation website.
- Clean-up: I removed the logout widget from the plugin since WordPress comes with its own widget.
- Full changelog can be found here.