Supporting Multiple Clubs

  • Hi Conor,

    I’m currently creating a website which will act as a hub for a number of running clubs who compete in regular mob matches (i.e. a number of clubs arrange to race at a local event and compete against each other both individually and as clubs).

    Your plugin is fantastic for creating events, adding results and generating rankings which are the core elements needed for my site. I think it could be adapted to support multiple clubs on a single website.

    Here are my brief thoughts to achieve this…
    1) Add a “Support Multiple Clubs” checkbox to WP Athletics Settings which can be used to show/hide as appropriate the aspects described below
    2) Create a “Manage Clubs” section which would allow the following data items to be managed for each club: Club Name, Location (e.g. Town/City), County, Country, Website URL.
    3) Provide an additional field on the “Create New Athlete” form to record the Club that the athlete is a member of.
    4) Add “Club” column to “Manage Results” table, perhaps next to the “Name” column
    5) Add “Club” column to “Event Results” table
    6) Add a “Club” filter to “Club Records” section (i.e. alongside Year and Terrain filters)
    7) Add a “Club” filter to “Print Rankings” section

    I realise that perhaps support for multiple clubs wouldn’t be a widely sought after feature, so I quite understand if you feel this wouldn’t be appropriate to add to your plugin.

    This would obviously be quite a bit of work and I would be happy to code this up myself from September onwards.

    I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on this.

    Cheers,
    Clive

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  • Plugin Author conormccauley

    (@conormccauley)

    Hi Clive,

    Thanks for the very kind comments, much appreciated. I think what you’ve suggested is very much achievable but you hit the nail on the head when you said it wouldn’t be a widely sought after feature and I’m not sure if it belongs in a general release.

    I’d love to help out but I have a lot of what I consider higher priority feature requests and with limited resources I don’t have much time to put into this plugin anymore. If I do find time and the resources to get this in, I’ll be the first to let you know of course.

    If you’d like to have a stab at it yourself and do up some code I’m happy to review it and add to the plugin if I feel it’s stable enough.

    Regards,

    Conor.

    Thread Starter stretchwickster

    (@stretchwickster)

    Hi Conor,

    Once I’ve got some studying out of the way, I’ll have a stab at this and pass it to you for review.

    Cheers,
    Clive

    I can also see the value in the plug-in, but there are other ‘club vs. club’ plug-ins that may be better suited when it is ‘club v. club’. This power of this plug-in I think is the individual user stats that other plugins do not have.

    I also agree there is a balancing act of whether it is appropriate for a general release.

    The plugin uses the WordPress member database currently and I am wondering if it was separated and made more of a general participants table unrelated to the member’s database it would simplify things.

    We have literally thousands of different individuals participate in our events each year and if loaded up with the last 20 years of results (which is the #1 requested feature of our members) exceed more than 10,000+ unique individuals (I should figure this out before trying to load it up) and not sure what that might do to the overall performance of the website.

    Going off of Conor’s note above of having limited time to work on it perhaps Conor could look at expanding the developer pool on it to be a collaboration.

    It is a good plug-in and I’d hate to see it go away do to lack of support and WordPress flagging it as dormant. I’ve also emailed Conor offering to help where I can.

    Christopher

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