ProScores – Live Scores vs WP YouTube Live

ProScores provides a fully customizable and responsive live scores page specifically designed for soccer enthusiasts, free of ads and iframes. Developed by Livescores.pro, this plugin offers real-time updates and a sleek, modern design tailored to soccer fans and websites. Whether you’re managing a soccer blog, a fan site, or a professional sports news platform, ProScores integrates seamlessly with your WordPress site, delivering an unparalleled user experience. With ProScores, you can customize every aspect of the live soccer scores page to match your website’s theme and branding. Choose from a variety of color schemes, fonts, and layout options to create a look that is uniquely yours. The plugin’s intuitive settings panel makes it easy to adjust configurations without any coding knowledge. Features Live Football(Soccer) Scores Scores for the leagues you want to display, such as EPL, Serie A, La Liga Live Match Tracking in text and animated formats Responsive design Ad-free experience Fully customizable Support SSL (HTTPS) Automatic Time Zone Displaying Live Score Use the [proscores] shortcode where you want to display the live scores. You can also use the list attribute to change the match list. For example: [proscores list="live"]. For the list attribute, you may use the following values: today, live, tomorrow, yesterday, league. The default value is today. today = today’s matches live = live matches yesterday = yesterday’s matches tomorrow = tomorrow’s matches league = league latest scores by path. Requires the path attribute; if omitted, it defaults to the English Premier League path. Example: [proscores list="league" path="/a/71/league/italy-serie-a/"] Displaying Standings / Tables Use the [prostandings] shortcode where you want to display the standings. The default league is the English Premier League. You can use the path attribute to change the league. For example, [prostandings path="/a/23/league/spain-la-liga/standings"] will display the La Liga standings. Other attributes you can use to change the view of the standings include: [prostandings compact="1"] will show only points, played games, and goal difference. [prostandings logos="0"] will hide team logos. [prostandings legends="0"] will hide promotion information. For other leagues, visit our site at LiveScores.pro and navigate to the desired league’s standings page. In the address bar, you will see a URL like https://livescores.pro/a/50/league/england-premier-league/standings. Copy the path part, which in this example is /a/50/league/england-premier-league/standings, and use it in the shortcode. Supported Languages English Español Français Deutsch Italiano Português Português/Brasil Русский Türkçe Polski Română Ελληνικά Svenska Srpski Српски Swahili हिंदी External Service Usage ProScores Plugin utilizes an external service provided by ProScores Widgets to enhance live score tracking functionality. The service is used to fetch live scores and updates based on user preferences. Data Usage: – The plugin sends requests to ProScores Widgets API endpoints for live score data. – No user-specific data is transmitted; only general preferences (such as language settings) are sent. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy: – For more information, please refer to ProScores Widgets’ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. For any questions or concerns regarding the use of this service, please contact us at [email protected]

Displays the current YouTube live video from a specified channel via the shortcode [youtube_live]. Setup Notes Your YouTube livestream must be set to “Public” or it will not work. This is a security feature of YouTube’s API and unfortunately there’s no way to work around it. In addition, your live stream must be set to allow embedding on third-party sites. If that feature is unavailable, you may need to enable monetization for your account. See YouTube documentation for more information or help with allowing embedding. How It Works If no live video is available, you can display a specified video or a “channel player” showing all your recent videos. You can also enable auto-refresh to automatically check for a live video every 30 seconds (warning: will increase server load, so use with caution). By default, the server will check YouTube’s API and then cache that response for 15 minutes before checking the API again (you may change this value in the admin settings). If auto-refresh is enabled, clients will check against your server every 30 seconds and likely will hit that cache as well, so it can potentially take up to 16 minutes before a client will get a live video. The length of both caches can be changed using the wp_youtube_live_transient_timeout filter (see below for more information). If no live video is available when a page is loaded, several fallback options are available: “Show a custom HTML message” allows you to specify a custom message to show “Show scheduled live videos” will show a player and countdown until your next live video “Show last completed live video” will show your most recently-completed live video “Show recent videos from my channel” will show a playlist of recent videos from your channel “Show a specified playlist” will show a specified playlist “Show a specified video” will show a specified video “Show nothing at all” will show nothing at all When a video ends, users’ browsers will check your server again to see if a live video is available. If so, it will load that; if not, it will fall back as set in your options. Shortcode Options width: player width in pixels; defaults to what you set on the settings page height: player height in pixels; defaults to what you set on the settings page autoplay: whether or not to start playing immediately on load; defaults to false auto_refresh: (either true or false) overrides the auto-refresh setting on the settings page fallback_behavior: choose from the following: upcoming, completed, channel, playlist, video, message, no_message upcoming: the next upcoming scheduled video on the specified channel playlist: a specified playlist (shortcode must also include the fallback_playlist attribute) video: a specified video (shortcode must also include the fallback_video attribute) message: a specified message no_message: nothing at all fallback_playlist: a playlist URL to show when there are no live videos fallback_video: a video URL to show when there are no live videos fallback_message: a message to show when there are no live videos js_only: (either true or false) workaround for some caching issues; if a caching plugin (W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, etc.) or proxy (CloudFlare, etc.) caches the HTML while a video is live, visitors may continue to see an old live video even if it has ended. If set js_only is set to true, the server never displays the player code in the initial request and instead sends it in response to uncached ajax requests. This may also result in the video player being slightly delayed on page load due to the extra request, depending on the clients’ bandwidth and latency. Example shortcode: [youtube_live width="720" height="360" autoplay="true"] Filters The filter wp_youtube_live_no_stream_available will customize the message viewers see if there is no live stream currently playing, and takes effect after the fallback_message shortcode attribute is parsed (if fallback_message="no_message" is set in a shortcode, it will override the filter). For example, add this to your theme’s functions.php file: add_filter( 'wp_youtube_live_no_stream_available', 'my_ytl_custom_message' ); function my_ytl_custom_message( $message ) { $message = ' Please check back later or subscribe to our YouTube channel . Check again '; return $message; } The filter wp_youtube_live_transient_timeout is available to customize the cache timeout length in seconds. For example, add this to your theme’s functions.php file to set the cache length to 15 seconds instead of the default 900: add_filter( 'wp_youtube_live_transient_timeout', 'my_ytl_custom_timeout' ); function my_ytl_custom_timeout( $timeout ) { return 15; } Event Listener When a live stream is loaded, the wpYouTubeLiveStarted event is fired; you can use this to create custom front-end features on your site by adding an event listener: window.addEventListener('wpYouTubeLiveStarted', function() { /* your code here */ console.log('stream started'); /* your code here */ }); Development of this plugin is done on GitHub. Pull requests are always welcome.