FuryFC

Thanks, I spent a week tinkering with a sports-specific plug-in, but I think yours is the way to go. I’m just now sitting down to learn how to use your plug-in. I’ll post re: my progress.

Oh. Okay. I thought your plug-in was close to what I’ve been wanting to do. All of the data comes from one excel spreadsheet, imported through csv importer. I just take the data that’s imported and “echo” it to the cells in my template. I could definitely do this with your plug-in if I only wanted to post regular season stats, and that might be what I decide to do. My main thing is just trying to create additional fields.

I am just learning php, js and css, but will look at using CSV importer more directly. I thought that adding a few extra fields to your program wouldn’t be that tough. Even learning how to add one would do it. The rest of the wow factor of what I’ve done is simply through setting up a different template and using css to format it.

I really like the admin controls and the framework of your plug-in. Is there no basic way to add a custom field through some copycat coding from your basic structure? My problem is my lack of knowledge of php, but I am leaning by studying your code. I still just haven’t figured out what part of what php file(s) needs to be edited to add new field. That’s all I really need.

I understand if that’s beyond what you are willing to do, but this is one last request to give me some guidance as to how and where to add the code to create a new field. It seems like there might be quite a market for your plug-in if it were possible to add a few more custom fields, but I’ve seen your posts about drawing a line somewhere to make this easier for your audience, and I understand.

Regardless, great plug-in and I wish you all of the best with it. I looked and looked, but there is really nothing else right on point that’s out there. I don’t know why it was so hard for me to find on the WP plug-ins site, but I’m glad I found it. I hope you are making some good money from this!! Thanks for your kind words and help. I really admire the way you handle your documentation, coding, and support forum, and I appreciate the time and consideration you’ve given to my question.

Nope. That wasn’t it.

I haven’t figured it out completely yet, but it looks like WP Ultimate CSV Importer Plugin might do it.

(re-posting because first post didn’t include my links)

I am self-taught, and have a soccer team website (<a href="http://www.furyfc.com/blog/"></a>I would like to be able to populate individual players’ statistics/bios for each player on the “statistics” page AND make it easily updatable. In a perfect world, I would set up a template that has a layout like this:

<a href="http://furyfc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bio_layout.jpg"></a>

but which is populated from data stored in an excel spreadsheet like this:

<a href="http://furyfc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Statistics-2013-14.csv"></a>

My excel spreadsheet includes formulas, so comprehensively updating it each week only takes a few keystrokes. Thus, if possible, I’d rather not have to convert my excel spreadsheet to HTML. I want seamless, 1- or 2-step updating.

I am a real novice with .php, so I was hoping that there was a plug-in that would help me do this easily. A video tutorial would be a bonus. I’ll spend the time to learn if this is doable.

Any pointers/advice would be appreciated! If what I’m trying to do is unnecessarily complicated or the wrong way to do it, please let me know.

I just added the”Custom Fields” plug-in, but did not want to learn how to use it if my end result wouldn’t pull from excel. Is that the right tool? Is there something even better?

Thanks so much. I’ll try. To be clear, do I need to do all of these, or are these alternative steps to try?