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  • How to Filter Email Messages

    Tournamatch sends out dozens of email notifications for activities and events. Competitors receive an email notification when a match report needs to be confirmed, when a tournament starts, for team membership requests, and many more. In some cases, you may wish to limit the emails sent to users. This article demonstrates a short snippet of…

  • Player Profile Social Icons

    In the version 3.16 update, we introduced the ability to filter social icons in player profiles. Social icons are the linkable icons that appear in the screenshot below: By default, Tournamatch supports Facebook, Homepage, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube. These social icon fields appear as configurable options to your users when he or she edits their…

  • How to Extend a Plugin in WordPress with a Filter Hook

    Extending a plugin in WordPress may seem foreign if you have never done so; however, it is actually a simple task for most filter hooks. What is a filter hook? A filter hook is just the technical way of saying, “Here is some content we will display to the user or save to the database.”…

  • How to install Tournamatch via WordPress

    One of the easiest ways to install Tournamatch is to use the WordPress dashboard. Using this feature requires that file uploads are enabled on your web host and also that the plugin you want to upload is less than the file upload limit. Tournamatch is only about 1.5 mb and the default for most hosts…

  • How to Update Tournamatch

    In this post, I’ll walk you through the process of updating Tournamatch to use the latest version. This assumes that you already have Tournamatch installed. If not, you should first head over to our how to install Tournamatch guide and come back when we have an update available (we push 1 – 2 of those per month).…

  • How to install Tournamatch via FTP

    One of the two main ways you can install Tournamatch in WordPress is via a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) program. FTP programs connect to the web server where your website is hosted and permit you to transfer files between your local computer and the server. In some scenarios, such as when file upload permissions or…

  • Wireframing with balsamiq

    I am not a web designer. I know what I like when I see it; but, I’m much more experienced working on the backend of systems or building desktop applications (I know). I was recently tasked with mocking up the appearance of a new product targeting our web customers. Knowing the way I would historically…