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Hello colincee1,

This is the reviews section, and it sounds like you are needing help with setup. If you’ll post a specific question to the support forum: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/bracketpress

Or to our site:
https://www.bracketpress.com/

We’ll be glad to help.

If you are receiving a 404, it may be that you need to visit the permalinks page in WordPress under Settings, and click “save”. This will flush the rewrite rules and possibly resolve any file not found issues you may encounter when viewing a bracket page with permalinks turned on.

If there is another, specific, problem we can help you with, please don’t hesitate to ask in the support forums.

I’ve updated the css selector to display slightly larger font and bold.

You can now style the overall winner using the CSS selector:
#bracket .match .final_pick { }

This will be released in the next update.

Let me know if that resolves this question, or if there is more we can do to better call out the overall winner of the bracket.

The visuals on for the overall winner can be improved.

If you have a suggestion for how the visuals could be updated, we’d be happy to implement. Otherwise, we’ll look at doing something basic like putting it in bold.

No, you weren’t doing anything wrong – the scoring was off, but fixed now.

The code to determine which round a game is in wasn’t working properly. I’ve refactored the scoring to use updated logic and now all is working as it should – just finished testing each round.

We’ll be releasing this fix in the next update, early this week.

If you’d like to test before the official release, please create an account on bracketpress.com and post in the forum there … we’ll email you a pre-release version.

Thanks for that catch!

Each bracket has a team_id class is the HTML, so what I’d suggest is targeting the CSS selector with an appropriate image.

If you need more to work with, for example, an extra <span> tag to place the thumbnail in, I’d be happy to update the core with the necessary HTML.

Let me know if this works for what you are doing.

Hi, can you be mor specific? Are you looking to add thumbnail images to the teams on the bracket view page, for example, a picture of a wildcat next to U of K?

Or are you looking to use gravatar images next to the owner of the brackets on the leaderboard display?

Or something different?

How familiar are you with CSS?

Sent you an email with the latest code.

We’ve released 1.0.3 to www.ads-software.com which resolves php 5.2 issues. I’m going to mark this as “resolved”, if we encounter any other problems we can re-open the ticket.

PeruBobmarley,

We have a hotfix available that fixes this issue, and will release shortly after testing. If you send an email to [email protected], we can send you the updated package and provide instructions for testing the new release.

I’ve verified that this is an issue when running on PHP 5.2, working on a fix and further testing now.

Thank you for letting us know of the error.

That line is creating additional actions for BracketPress plugins to use.

I believe we may need to do some work on the plugin to be more compatible with a wider range of hosting providers and PHP versions.

Please reply with the name of your hosting provider, as well as the version of PHP that is installed, and we’ll release an update.

Scott’s right on all points, here’s some elaboration.

Each bracket has it’s own URL , and you can optionally leave commenting on. Using this facility, you can, for example have people comment on each other’s brackets or create BuddyPress groups.

I’m building out an awesome demo site, now, to be able to show off some of the features in a few days.

To score a bracket, the system creates a “master bracket” on installation where you tell it who has won each game. Then, run scoring from the settings page, and it will tally the points based on the master bracket.

The scoring is available in the meta_data of the bracket post, so if you want some code to display it today I can certainly provide that.

The Pro Data plugin (commercial) is able to:

a) Automatically update the game scores for the master from our main server
b) run the scoring automatically
c) A bunch of other stuff, particularly notifications when things happen (want to send an SMS message to your member whenever a game is over? you’ll be able to do that)

…. automatically, via timed jobs (cron).

Now that the core plugin is released, we’re busy updating the with more features. The idea is that you can start building your site and getting members, today, and as we get closer to March, we’ll release updates that get closer and closer to the perfect system.

Really looking forward to hearing how you plan to use the plugin so we can make it even better.

Thanks for the feedback!

Do not delete the database if you want to keep your posts.

If you are looking to keep your posts, then you’re probably not going to want to wipe your site – and especially not your database. You have a few options that could work for you:

a) Talk to your host to try to resolve the 500 error. It could be something as simple as a permissions issue. THEN upgrade.

b) delete all the old files, install the new fileset and configure it to talk to the current database. It *should* upgrade the old database and start working with your old content in place.

c) Something in-between: delete all your plugins in wp-content/plugins, and all but the default theme in wp-content/themes. This should get you a relatively clean system to work with, assuming the core files haven’t been changed or hacked.

If you want to completely clean the content, once you are up and running, you can “export” your site and posts, setup a brand new install , then re “import” them.

If you need specific instructions on any of the above, please ask.