Challonge
Do you use Challonge for your gaming or sport events? The Challonge plugin integrates your Challonge tournaments into your WordPress website so your users may easily see recent tournaments, their progress, and even sign up and participate. Features Adaptive caching and background refresh allows your pages to load a lot faster than before! – New in 1.1.6! Only registered users may sign up to your tournaments. Likewise, your users may forfeit a tournament after signing up, but only before it begins. Participating users may report their own scores. Includes role capabilities. You will need a role management plugin to change who has these capabilities. Custom participant name templating. Languages English Spanish (68%) – Thanks to Andrew Kurtis from WebHostingHub for translating! Requirements In order to use the API, you will need cURL. Most PHP installations include cURL. Latest Information Keep up to date with upcoming release information on my website: https://zavaboy.org/challonge-wordpress-plugin/ Getting Started Before you start using this plugin, here’s what you’ll need: A Challonge.com account. Registration is free. A valid Developer API Key so the Challonge plugin can talk with your Challonge.com account. Once you have the Challonge plugin installed and activated on your website, you will need to enter your Challonge.com API key in ‘Settings’ > ‘Challonge’. Once you have done that, you have unlocked the full power of this nice plugin. Shortcode You may use a shortcode in posts and pages to display a tournament or list out tournaments. [challonge] – This will list out all tournament brackets in your account, excluding all organizations. [challonge url="w4la9fs6"] – This will embed a tournament bracket. This may be any Challonge bracket, not just your own. [challonge subdomain="my_sub"] – This will list out all tournament brackets in the ‘my_sub’ organization. (eg: my_sub.challonge.com) [challonge url="w4la9fs6" theme="2" show_final_results="1" width="90%" height="600px"] – This is just a more customized version of the first shortcode. If you have a tournament bracket within an organization, you will have to use the subdomain attribute along with the url attribute, like so: [challonge url="w4la9fs6" subdomain="my_sub"] Here’s all the shortcode attributes available to you: url – The URL to a tournament. subdomain – The subdomain of the tournament URL or if no tournament URL is provided, the listing will be tournaments within the specified subdomain. theme – The theme ID you would like to use. multiplier – Scales the entire bracket. match_width_multiplier – Scales the width allotted for names. show_final_results – Display the final results above your bracket. show_standings – For round robin and Swiss tournaments, you can opt to show a table of the standings below your bracket. width – The width of the embedded tournament bracket. height – The height of the embedded tournament bracket. limit – Limit the number of returned results for tournament listings. allowusers / denyusers / allowroles / denyroles – A comma separated list of users or roles you would like to specifically allow or deny from viewing the tournament bracket or tournament listings. statuses / excludestatuses – A comma separated list of tournament statuses you would like to specifically show or hide from the tournament listings. All statuses: “Pending,Checking In,Checked In,Underway,Awaiting Review,Complete” listparticipants – List participants currently in the tournament. (Must be used with url) – New in 1.1.6! Widget To allow your users to signup and report their own scores, just add the plugin widget. The widget has the following options: Title – The title of the widget, nothing special here. Defaults to ‘Challonge’. Subdomain – The subdomain to list your tournaments from. (Optional) Tournament Filter – Only tournament names that match this filter will be listed. (Optional) This may be a simple wildcard filter, for example My * Tournament will match ‘My Big Tournament’ but not ‘Your Big Tournament’. If you need a more robust filter, you may use Regular Expressions (PCRE) like so: /My \d+(st|nd|rd|th) Tournament/i will match ‘My 3rd tournament’ but not ‘My Third Tournament’ Status Filter – Only list tournaments with the selected statuses, unless none are selected. Max tournaments listed – The maximum number of tournaments that the widget will list. Defaults to 10. Integrating Challonge.com Tournaments Challonge.com tournaments may be easily setup to allow your WordPress users to signup and report scores. Here are a few things you should know when setting up your Challonge.com tournaments: Turning ‘Host a sign-up page’ on will allow your users to signup through the widget. In ‘Advanced Options’ > ‘Permissions’: Turning ‘Allow participants with Challonge accounts to report their own scores.’ on will allow your users to report their own scores through the widget. In ‘Advanced Options’ > ‘Permissions’: Turning ‘Exclude this event from search engines and the public browsable index.’ on will hide the tournament from the shortcode and widget tournament listings. Did You Know? If you run the same tournaments on multiple WordPress websites, your WordPress users will be tracked in your Challonge.com tournaments by their email address and login name, even if their display name differs. With this in mind, users may signup and report their score using either website. Also note, users who change their email address will lose access to any of their preexisting tournament signups. Good luck!
Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer
The simplest method to link WordPress with external APIs JCI simplifies the task of retrieving data from a third-party REST API. The returned JSON-, XML, CSV, TXT-data can be neatly arranged and showcased on your WordPress site via a shortcode, a JCI Block or PHP. The plugin can generate a template for the data display. 20 seconds: Load API and display data 7 minutes: Basic intro to JCI free Examples, Preview Check out the live demonstration to explore how we’re interfacing with various APIs LIVE PREVIEW – WordPress and a external API Video: How to use the Wikipedia API Main Plugin Features Low code usage: Save time and avoid coding using an API Insert an API-URL into Step 1: Data is loaded, and and displayed. Save it as API-Access-Set. Use the API-Access-Set in Step 2 to create a Shortcode Optional for maximum flexibility: Use the API-Access-Set n PHP code Insert an API-URL into the JCI Block: Data is loaded, and a template can be generated to display the data. Easy to start: Check Installation – Is your WordPress ready for JCI? Most probably! Basic Settings: Check SSL, Cacher, Gutenberg and Authentication ContactForm7 Integration: Populate CF7 forms with JSON data and forward CF7-submitted data to an API. Use the JCI cacher to avoid many API requests JCI-Block : Use the simple JCI Block interface to get data! Query the API and check the response. Then utilize the simple template generator inside the JCI Block to use the data! Contact Form 7 Integration: Fill form and submit to API Important Note Starting with Version 2.0.11 Starting with version 2.0.11, any HTML code present in the shortcode or block is filtered to prevent dangerous code (e.g. JavaScript) from being output. However, if you want to allow certain tags or attributes as a deliberate choice: In the plugin’s “Basic Settings” there is a field called “Allow additional HTML tags (advanced)”. There you can enter comma-separated tags that should not be filtered out. For example, “iframe,script” would preserve these two tags in the HTML output. “tr#onclick” would preserve the “onclick” attribute in ”, which would otherwise be removed. Documentation There’s a wealth of resources and support at your fingertips. Explore the articles listed below to begin your journey: JCI Manual Step 1: Access the Data Step 2: Using the Data Shortcode – Basic structure Contact Form 7 Integration Free JCI Plugin: Overview Videos Free JCI Plugin: Getting Started You need more? JSON Content Importer PRO Both the free and PRO JCI Plugins serve the same purpose: retrieving data, transforming it, and publishing the results. However, while the free Plugin can only handle basic challenges, the PRO JCI Plugin offers nearly full control over WordPress, the database, and applications. Compare: Free vs. JCI PRO Plugin PRO features: * application building by creating a searchform and connect it to a JSON-API in the background: pass GET-Variables to use a dynamic JSON-Feed-URL (“talk to API / webservice”) * much better and more flexible templateengine: twig * create and use Custom Post Types * store Templates independent of pages * more Shortcode-Parameters * executing Shortcodes inside a template * more features…
