ThreadStarter: Sports

EL PaperBoy · Mar 17, 2020

This plugin allows users to easily create topics about sport teams, events and players and fill them with content automatically.

Features

Users can add teams, events or players to topics. After attaching content, which can be done easily using a search with auto complete, the thread will show various information about it above the post. If available a list with upcoming events for a team or player will also be shown.
If a topic for an event exists the event list will link to that topic.
Content will be updated automatically. If results for an event are available the results will be shown in the topic for that event.
Works for most sports and leagues: Soccer, Basebool, Football, Boxing, Formula 1 and many more. A whole list can be found at thesportsdb.com
The topic will display logo, photos, description text, next and previous events and various other information about the player or team.
Event topics will be updated automatically with results and additional content like youtube videos if available.
Discussed content can be shown in adjustable widgets which allow random, recently posted, most discussed and much more...
Posting content can be restricted to certain forums.
Sports forums can show the posted content with the game logo above the topic list.
Access rights to edit and post content.
Posting content can also be allowed in clubs.
API support to search, add and remove content programmatically.

How to Install

Go to ACP > applications and upload the downloaded tar file.
You have to have ThreadStarter: Core installed for the ThreadStarter plugin to work!
It is recommended to enable 'Serve images from local server?' in the IPB settings to improve performance.
Note: TheSportsDB is a online database run by volunteers. The data will very likely not be complete. You can support them via patreon at thesportsdb.com.