Challonge vs WPGraphQL Smart Cache

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!

Do you want your API data fast or accurate? With WPGraphQL Smart Cache, you can have both. WPGraphQL Smart Cache is a free, open-source WordPress plugin that provides support for caching and cache invalidation of WPGraphQL Queries. To get the most out of this plugin, we recommend using GET requests with Network Caching, which requires your WordPress install to be on a supported host. Note: WPGraphQL Smart Cache is now part of the WPGraphQL monorepo. All releases, issues, and discussions are managed in the main repository. BREAKING CHANGES: We may make breaking changes in the future to improve functionality and experience. If we do, we will use semver to do so. Pay attention to release notes and upgrade notices before updating. Video Overview Docs Overview Quick Start Features Network Cache Object Cache Persisted Queries Cache Invalidation Extending / Customizing Functionality FAQ and Troubleshooting Known Issues Providing Feedback Upgrading It is recommended that anytime you want to update WPGraphQL Smart Cache that you get familiar with what’s changed in the release. WPGraphQL Smart Cache publishes release notes on GitHub. Look for releases tagged with wp-graphql-smart-cache/v*. WPGraphQL Smart Cache will follow Semver versioning. The summary of Semver versioning is as follows: MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes, MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, and PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes. You can read more about the details of Semver at semver.org Privacy Policy WPGraphQL Smart Cache uses Appsero SDK to collect some telemetry data upon user’s confirmation. This helps us to troubleshoot problems faster & make product improvements. Appsero SDK does not gather any data by default. The SDK only starts gathering basic telemetry data when a user allows it via the admin notice. We collect the data to ensure a great user experience for all our users. Integrating Appsero SDK DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY start gathering data, without confirmation from users in any case. When you opt in, each telemetry request is sent to Appsero and a duplicate is sent in a non-blocking request to WPGraphQL-operated infrastructure at https://telemetry.wpgraphql.com (the same categories of data as described for Appsero below). Learn more about how Appsero collects and uses this data.