improved    plugin caching system (added object cache support + automatic detection of what to use: transients or object cache)

  improved    minor performance improvements

  improved    Game Edit: custom numbers are automatically filled on adding a player to the lineups (if squad number is set)

  fixed    default values in Player Header - Compact layout (Customizer)

  fixed    making "LIVE" & "LIVE scheduled" strings translatable in Text Options

  fixed    minor fixes

  fixed    Suspension risk shortcode - show players 

  fixed    missing Imagick library generates error

  improved    API Import - player data fetching

  added    Player Header - Compact Layout

  added    option to apply Head-to-head rules in Standing table only after teams complete all their matches against each other

  fixed    handle division by zero in Formula statistic type

Player Header - Compact Layout

Customizer > Football Leagues > Player Header

Option to apply Head-to-head rules in Standing table only after teams complete all their matches against each other

  added    Formula stat type support in Game Player's statistics

  added    Formula and Calculated type support in Player Stat Panel

  improved    Game Team Stats layout (Modern)

  added    API Import - expected goals (xG) import

  added    option to show xG in Scoreboard (Customizer >> Fl >> Match) and game list - slim layout (Customizer >> FL >> Match List)

Game Team Stats layout (Modern)

API Import - expected goals (xG) import

The plugin will update the statistics configuration automatically. Data will only be retrieved for new completed games.

To get xG for old games, go to the Leagues >> Import Configuration and run Re-Update finished games.

  added    new Matches Section shortcode

  fixed    "clean_sheets" calculation in "Stat :: Clubs (Single Stat Value)" shortcode

  added    new option "Show Player Photo in Lineups" in Customizer > Match

  added    new dynamic variables in Player Layout (Layout Builder)

  added    new Formula type in Player Statistics (can be used in Stat Players (Single Stat Value) shortcode)

  added    new argument "exclude_nationality" in Stat Players (Single Stat Value) shortcode

  added    new argument "min_games_percent" (Minimum Games in % (0-100) - of most played) in Stat Players (Single Stat Value) shortcode

  added    option in Customizer to change default home/away team colors used in Charts

New Tutorials

- Matches Section - shortcode

New "Matches Section" shortcode

Show section of the selected games. For example, the prediction section of the upcoming 10 games in LaLiga (screenshot).

New option "Show Player Photo in Lineups" in Customizer > Match

New dynamic variables in Player Layout (Layout Builder)

>> NEW VARIABLES

%player_height%
%player_weight%
%player_age%
%club_link%
%squad_number%
%next_game%
%next_game_date%
%next_game_time%
%next_game_league%
%last_game%
%last_game_minutes%
%last_game_date%
%last_game_time%
%last_game_league%
%last_game_rating%
%current_season%
%current_season_minutes%
%current_season_goals%
%current_season_played%
%current_season_started%
%current_season_sub_in%
%current_season_assists%
%current_season_own_goals%
%current_season_goals_penalty%
%current_season_goals_conceded%
%current_season_clean_sheets%
%current_season_card_y%
%current_season_card_r%

>> NEW CONDITIONAL TAGS
[IF%player_height%] your conditional content [ENDIF%player_height%]

[IF%player_weight%] your conditional content [ENDIF%player_weight%]

[IF%squad_number%] your conditional content [ENDIF%squad_number%]

[IF%next_game%] your conditional content [ENDIF%next_game%]

[IF%last_game%] your conditional content [ENDIF%last_game%]

[IF%last_game_minutes%] your conditional content [ENDIF%last_game_minutes%]

[IF%current_season_minutes%] your conditional content [ENDIF%current_season_minutes%]

>> Use Case

New Formula type in Player Statistics

option in Customizer to change default home/away team colors used in Charts

  fixed    Prediction Chart is not visible when placed on hidden tab

  fixed    incorrect calculation in Stat Clubs shortcode in some cases

  fixed    API Import: incorrect recognition of player nationality (Czechia, Tanzania, Türkiye, Kyrgyz Republic)

  added    new Game Prediction section (replaced the old one)

  fixed    Prediction Advice - translation of team name (will require prediction update)

  performance    added delay loading for the Echarts JavaScript files (used in Prediction section & charts shortcodes) 

  added    options page to translate Odds

  added    Odds: support custom bookmaker logos

  added    Odds: Show Pre-Match Odds (Match Winner) in Game (W1-X-W2)

New Tutorials

- Game Prediction

- Cache WordPress Rest API Endpoint With Cloudflare

- (Updated) Odds Import

Show Pre-Match Odds (Match Winner) in Game (W1-X-W2)

Updated Prediction section

Prediction Advice - translation of team name

Added delay loading for the Echarts JavaScript files

Options page to translate Odd names

Odds - Custom Bookmaker Logos

Advanced Buttons

  fixed    API Import - Missing Standings - added groups from multistage tournaments

  added    new Timeline

  added    additional game time (in the Match Stats section) - visible on the timeline

  added    API Import - save additional game time (1st half only on live games)

  added    API Import - show LIVE elapsed time on timeline with orange background 

  fixed    Live Search shortcode in Shortcode Builder

  added    API Import - added support for Fonbet & Betano bookmakers

  fixed    not finished games affect player statistics

  improved    Game Scoreboard style improvements on mobile devices (compact, less space)

  added    new fields in Batch Matches Import tool: stadium and game duration (full and extra)

  added    API Import - live scorers in Game Scoreboard

  improved    Player Games Stats - removed zeros and added rating field

  improved    Team Player Stats - removed zeros, added new icons, added rating, layout changes

New Timeline

Additional game time

LIVE elapsed time on timeline with orange background

API Import - live scorers in Game Scoreboard

Player Games Stats - removed zeros and added rating field

Team Player Stats

  added    Dynamic SEO options (title) also affect the H1 tag on the Game page if allowed

  improved    frontend LIVE Game edit - minor fixes and improvements

  fixed    Bracket in manual layout shows zeros on upcoming games

  improved    performance improvements (for sites with a large number of tournaments)

New Tutorials

option in Customizer to show prediction text in Slim layout for the games in LIVE status

New Tutorials:

How To: UCL 2024 - League Stage

API Import - LIVE game team and player stats support

API Import - Missing Standings (for not active leagues)

  fixed    Admin UI: selecting content on dragging in Layout Builder and Formation

  fixed    Stat Clubs (Single Stat Value) - home_away argument not working in Shortcode builder

  fixed    Stats Clubs shortcode - custom team statistics for away games not calculated

  added    new dynamic variables %stadium_title% and %prediction_text% in Match Layout

  fixed    Game Edit: player custom stats are not saved for the newly added players without page reload

  improved    admin UI code has been rewritten

  added    new admin Competition UI

  added    new option in Game Formation to show a link to the player profile in Customiser >> Football Leagues >> Match >> Formation - Show link to Player Profile

New Tutorials

- Euro 2024 - add knockout games

New admin Competition UI

  fixed    Frontend Game Edit - problem with saving game stadium

  fixed    API Import - Discover Games only from saved in the Dashboard

  added    new shortcode: "Stat :: Clubs (Single Stat Value)"

New Tutorials

- Shortcode - Stat Clubs - Single stats value

New shortcode: "Stat :: Clubs (Single Stat Value)"

  added    API Import: Discover New Games to Create (new tool)

  added    option to restrict editing plugin instances only by administrators

  added    argument in shortcode "Stat :: Players (Single Stat Value)" - "player_name": default/short/full

  fixed    automatic Bracket errors in some situations

New Tutorials

API Import - Discover New Games to Create - (New Tool) - Football Leagues

API Import: Discover New Games to Create

Option to restrict editing plugin instances only by administrators

New arguments in shortcode "Stat :: Players (Single Stat Value)"

Layout Builder - option to select a custom layout for National teams and teams by IDs

Layout Builder - inline CSS option

Shortcode "Stat :: Players (Single Stat Value)" - Use cases

Default layout

With "nationality" filter

nationality="es" 

Average rating per game 

calculation="avg_game" digits="1"

Goalkeepers with fewer goals conceded in 90 minutes with a minimum of 5 games played

stat="goals_conceded" calculation="avg_90" digits="1" type="g" min_games="5" sort="asc"

one_line="1"

  fixed    Frontend Game Edit - fixed size of substitute icon

  fixed    Club page - duplicated transfers

  fixed    game status "penalties" if extra time is not set

  fixed    Calendar Slider - multiple competition IDs support

  fixed    show Trophies metabox on the Club edit page

  fixed    Frontend Edit (Edit Game & Live Edit) - possible JS name conflict with other plugins (e.g.: Essential Addons for Elementor)

  improved    migration process (show some debug info on errors)

  fixed    Transfers shortcode layout="player" - custom club_out is not rendering

  fixed    problem with rendering temp players in the game lineups

⚠️ Warning

⚠️ Some plugin functionality wouldn't work till the end of the migration process.

⚠️ All "API Import" scheduled tasks will be disabled. Do not activate them till the end of the migration process.

⚠️ It is recommended to begin the data migration process during less busy hours to minimize disruptions to website visitors. If you have a large database, it may take more than several hours.

  fixed    "date_from" and "date_to" arguments in the Player Stats Panel shortcode are not working properly

  improved    API Import settings have been moved to a dedicated page  

  fixed    Subteams summary page is not working properly

  improved    automatic user's timezone functionality (logic of kickoff time converting)

  improved    Calendar Slider performance

Database Optimization

The new version will reduce database size by 200-300% and improve performance for most database queries.

A special migration tool has been introduced in v0.16.0 to guide you through the migration process.

  improved    custom player statistics moved into "anwpfl_players" table (from "anwpfl_player_stats" table)

  removed     "anwpfl_player_stats" table (after migration)

  improved    moved prediction from "postmeta" to new "predictions" table (less db size, better performance)

  improved    moved all formations from "postmeta" to new "formations" table (less db size, better performance)

  improved    moved all transfers from "postmeta" to new "transfers" table.

Migration Process

Test Results

1st website (23K - games, 28K players, DB size - 0.9GB)

After migration: DB - 0.45GB, migration process - 4 hours 

2nd website (6K - games, 10K - players, DB size - 304MB)

After migration: DB - 141MB, migration process - 12 minutes

Player Statistics Optimization 

From v0.16.0, custom player statistics are saved in the "players". The creation of appropriate database columns takes place automatically during saving statistics configuration.

Result: less db size, good performance for rendering shortcodes based on custom player statistics.

API Data Import - UI Improvements

New Menu and minor changes in Dashboard UI

API Data Import - new settings page

Old settings will be automatically migrated to a new format during the update.

  added    new Standing Table Advanced shortcode - info

  fixed    mobile YouTube loading error

  fixed    LIVE manual scores 0:0 on start

  fixed    minor API Import fixes

  added    new arguments in "Stats :: Players (Custom)" shortcode: "filter by columns" and "filter by column value (min)"

  added    new layout in "Stats :: Players (Custom)" shortcode: "tabulator" with sorting and filtering

  improved    %kickoff% placeholder in Builder will use plugin date format (if set in Settings >> Display >> Custom Match Date format)

  added    icons to basic statistics in "Stats :: Clubs" shortcode

Tabulator and undocumented "layout_mod" argument

All tabulator tables have a special argument "layout_mod"

The default value is layout_mod="even" (spread all free space on equal sizes between all columns)

layout_mod="auto" (automatic width)

layout_mod="first" (add all free space to the first column)

layout_mod="second" (add all free space to the second column)

New animated countdown

New Addons menu

  fixed    rendering Calendar Slider and widget with non-Latin characters in no-data-text after installing v0.14.18.2

  improved    performance improvements

  fixed    bracket manual layout has incorrect order in some cases

How to Add Full Page Cache on manual LIVE

  added    Standing - home/away table data

  added    Game Formation - new display options (photo & shirt, rating, game events, nationality) - "Customizer" >> "Football Leagues" >> "Match"

  added    player rating color depends on the value (from red to blue). You can change min/max values in "Customizer" >> "Football Leagues" >> "General"

  fixed    Standing table colors with Conference support

Standing - home/away table data

Game Formation - new display options

  fixed    Full Page Caching - improved W3 Total Cache support

  fixed    Frontend Edit - game events on save don't update the plugin cache

  fixed    Layout Builder - Stadium season selector not visible

  improved    Import API - minor UI fixes

New Tutorials:

- https://www.anwp.pro/how-to-override-and-create-new-templates-in-anwp-football-leagues/

  improved    API Import - LIVE update logic

  added    Experimental support for the full-page caching (purge cache on API Import - game update)

  improved    LIVE Import - LIVE scores data are updated by WP Rest API that can be cached on web server level

  fixed    API Import - Penalty Shootout parsing 

  fixed    Import API - minor LIVE import improvements 

  improved    Bracket - added "free mode" and kickoff time field

New Tutorials

- https://www.anwp.pro/tournament-bracket-football-leagues-wordpress-plugin/

  improved    API Import - minor fixes on LIVE import

  added    API Import - added option to force update player photos on squad update 

  added    VAR event

  fixed    Player: "all seasons" as the default player page doesn't work in some situations

  fixed    Standings shortcode: incorrect sorting by title

  fixed    manual LIVE is not working together with API LIVE Import

  fixed    logic in calculating Standing Table arrows 

Manual LIVE import support together with API LIVE Import

  fixed    API Import - error with 00:00:00 GMT time

  fixed    LIVE block style in slim game layout with competition logo

  added    automatic user timezone functionality + timezone switcher ( #1530 )

  added    Layout Builder > Player - "Show on Player Position" filter option

  added    new arguments in Calendar Slider shortcode:

    - calendar_size="small" (small or default)

    - competition_title="league" (league name or competition title)

    - centered (1/0) - make active day centered

    - day_width - day width (px)

  added    new argument in Referees Stats shortcode - order

  improved    API Import - LIVE Import: improved performance

New Tutorials

- Automatic User's timezone

Automatic user timezone functionality

Layout Builder > Player - "Show on Player Position" filter option

Calendar Slider - calendar_size="small"

  added    Dynamic SEO - conditional tags

  fixed    empty row in Referees Stats shortcode (games without referee assigned)

  fixed    kickoff game edit in frontend Game edit mode

  added    new dynamic variables in Layout Builder - Match: referee_id and referee_name

  added    new arguments "date_from" and "date_to" in Shortcodes: Stat Players, Stats Players (Custom) & Players Stats

  added    new Player Stats Panel shortcode (improved version of old Player's Stats Panel)

New Tutorials

- Player Stats Panel (shortcode)

Player Stats Panel shortcode

Dynamic SEO - conditional tags

  improved    loading some scripts by request only (DataTables, Flatpickr)

  improved    added optimized Swiper library (twice smaller). If you have a problem with it, disable it in FL+ Customizer

  added    API Import - update stadiums and referees on "Update Kickoff time" action 

  added    API Import - option to reset squad on update (NO - default)

  added    new "plain" layout in shortcode Matches

  added    new Referee Stats shortcode

  added    new Referees Stats shortcode

New Tutorials

- Referee Stats

- Referees Stats

Referees Stats shortcode

Referee Stats shortcode

Optimized Swiper library

Swiper is used in Calendar Slider, Matches Scoreboard and Matchweek Slides.

API Import - option to reset squad on update (NO - default)

"plain" layout in Shortcode "Matches"

  fixed    rendering SEO title of non-plugin pages in SEO plugins

  fixed    Transfers shortcode - show team title with a logo

  added    dynamic SEO title and descriptions in Layout Builder

  added    more dynamic variables in Layout Builder

  fixed    API Import: no games to create in some situations (when API League's "from" parameter is not set correctly)

New Tutorials

- https://www.anwp.pro/seo-options-in-layout-builder-title-and-description/

Dynamic SEO title and descriptions in Layout Builder

  added    API Import - support Cancelled game status on import

  added    API Import - update Team code (abbreviation)

  fixed    API Import - error on creating games on some servers

  added    API Import - (Beta) Automatic Import Wizard for the most popular leagues

  removed    API Import V2. If you are still using V2, migrate to V3 before updating. 

  added    API Import - Import Coaches

  added    Standing - new Ranking rules: "less yellow cards" and "less red cards"

  fixed    API Import - update game title and slug after Kickoff update 

  fixed    Standing table incorrect rendering on some sites

  added    Layout Builder - Prediction block in Match Live

  added    API Import - Odds - option to hide selected bookmakers and odds clickable option

  added    possibility to translate LIVE statuses #2007

  added    API Import - translatable Prediction parts

  added    Stats :: Players (Custom) Shortcode - arguments for secondary sorting - sort_column_2 and sort_order_2

  added    ▼ ▲ in the Standing Table - #23 (will be available after next round) To disable - Customize > FL > Standing

Possibility to translate LIVE statuses

API Import - translatable Prediction parts

  added    API Import V3 - Odds Import

  added    new variable %ref_4_name% in Send Game Report by email

New Tutorials

- Odds Import

  added    Live Scores support in Matches widget

  improvements    minor improvements and fixes

  added    game Club captain

  added    Game Lineups - minutes in events (Customizer >> FL >> Match >> Minutes in Lineups Events)

  fixed    automatic suspension error in the last game

  added    API Import - options to disable loading club logos and stadium photos

  improved    Transfers shortcode - mobile layouts

  fixed    API Import - Update Injuries - disable scheduled task error

  added    API Import - option to disable loading players photos