What is Sports Bench?
Sports Bench is a WordPress plugin and theme that helps you create a website for your sports league. You enter in teams, players and stats and it takes care of the rest for you — from the standings to the stats to even a cool scoreboard. It’ll make your league look cool with minimal effort.
What Sports Bench Can Do
Plugin Features
Scoreboard
Display upcoming, current or completed games with an easy-to-use scoreboard. You can create a separate scoreboard page with only the need to call one function, or you can add a scoreboard bar to the top of your header.
Stats Leaderboard
Show who’s the best in different statistical categories with Sports Bench’s stats leaderboard. Simply select which stats you wish to show and they’ll show up on the page. The stats show the top ten players, but users can load more for each stat with a simple click.
Team Pages
Sports Bench makes it easy for you to have a centralized location for each team in the league with team pages. If you’re using the Sports Bench theme, this requires no setup. But even if you’re not, our functions and guides will have you setup with a team page template that will match your theme in no time.
Sports Bench comes in two components: a plugin for the sports functionality and a theme to display your league’s information.
Theme Features
Sports Bench Plugin Integration
The Sports Bench theme is designed and coded with the Sports Bench plugin in mind. While the theme works on its own like any other WordPress theme, it works best with the plugin. This is perfect for users with no coding experience as everything has already been taken care of. Simply activate the theme and plugin, setup the plugin options and you’re on your way.
Customizable Homepage
Readers won’t have to go very far to find your stories when they come to your website. In addition to showing your latest posts, you can also add tabs for selected categories so readers can peruse them without leaving the homepage.
Longform Post Template
Have a special story that you want to tell in a special way? Sports Bench makes that easy with the longform feature. Select the longform post template in the “Post Attributes” section of the post editor to see your story displayed in a unique way.
Buy Sports Bench Today!
Plugin Only
A powerful sports plugin.
Powers all of the functionality needed for sports
Automates standings and stats for your league
Gutenberg blocks to add to your posts and pages
Built to work with any WordPress theme
Customizable to fill any need that you have
Codex to help you extend the plugin
Plugin and Theme
The best of both worlds.
Includes the plugin and theme
Allows you to get going in just minutes
All page templates already built for you
It’s the best of both worlds
The perfect option if you don’t want to deal with code
Codex to help you extend the plugin and theme
Theme Only
A quality WordPress theme.
A nice, clean and modern WordPress theme
Customizable homepage with a slider tiled top section
Built to adapt to the new Gutenberg block editor
Easy integration with the Sports Bench plugin
Customizable to fit your needs
Codex to help you extend the theme
See the Demo
Want to see this theme in action before downloading it? Click the button below to go to see the demo site with the theme in all it’s glory. The demo will allow you to see all the features in action before deciding whether to use it or not. So give it a try!
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