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zed1 Team Fixtures Plugin

This page first published by mike @ 17:49 on Saturday, 12 July 2008.

I have written a small plugin for a friend who wanted an easy way to display his favourite football (soccer) team’s next fixture on his blog.

He had previously needed to edit his theme sidebar.php every time, often twice a week.

So I came up with the idea of this theme widget, which allows him to select the two teams from drop down lists, type in the date, time, and competition and then save the changes. He can also specify which TV or Satellite channel the match will be shown on.

I have set up a demo of the widget on this page

In the spirit of open source, I thought I would release it to the world.

You can download version 1.0.7 of the plugin. Update: Version 1.0.7 has a minor CSS tweak.

Note the zip file includes UK soccer team badges (sourced from Wikipedia), but you can just drop in any team badges you like. Name them like Team_Name.jpg (or .gif, or .png) and the plugin will simply add them to the drop down list. Add them in a subdirectory (perhaps by league) for example Sport_League_1 and it will subcategorise them in the drop down list.

Screen shots

The settings dialog allows you to configure all aspects of the widget.

Widget dialog

The drop down list will categorise the badges it finds in subdirectories.

drop down list

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7 Responses to “zed1 Team Fixtures Plugin”

zed1.com demo site » Team Fixtures Widget Plugin Says:
July 12th, 2008 at 17:55
[...] is a post to demonstrate the Team Fixtures widget plugin. Got to the plugin page to download, discuss, or ask questions about the [...]
Paul Taylor Says:
January 22nd, 2009 at 13:57
This is a great little tool, going to try and use it for a non-league website i’m trying to build.

One quesiton is it possible to include this in a page? Thnking of having it as a page header before the posts. Anyways great stuff, thanks very much!
mike Says:
January 23rd, 2009 at 09:13
Hi Paul,
If you had a theme that allowed an extra area for widgets at the top of the page, you could use it that way.
However if your theme doesn’t provide that, you can add the following code to your template in the place you want the fixture to appear:
<?php $args = array('before_widget' => '<div id="team-fixture">', 'before_title' => '<h2>', 'after_title' => '</h2>', 'after_widget' => '</div>'); widget_zed1_fix($args); ?>

Give it a try and let me know how it goes.

Mike
Thank a Plugin Developer Day | Tkey.net Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 21:48
[...] plugin is still working [...]
Test Blog » Thank a Wordpress Plugin Developer Day Says:
February 14th, 2009 at 18:47
[...] plugin is still working [...]
LaX Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 04:34
Can i change the time displayed to use for other locales? like Asia
mike Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 19:42
Hi LaX,
Yes you can enter any time you like.

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