Moving from SportsPress
Bring your league across without starting over
The free Leaguewise plugin includes a SportsPress importer. Run a dry run to see what will come across, import, then switch SportsPress off. Your standings match and your old links keep working.
What comes across
- Leagues and seasons
- Teams, players and staff
- Venues
- Events, results and player statistics
- The tiebreak order your league used
Standings after the import match what SportsPress showed. Old SportsPress links redirect to the new Leaguewise pages, so search engines and bookmarks still find them.
How to move
- Back up your site. Always a good idea before a big change.
- Install Leaguewise alongside SportsPress and activate it.
- Go to Leaguewise → Import / Export → SportsPress and run a dry run. It lists what will be imported and changes nothing.
- Run the import. You can run it again later: it updates what it imported instead of making duplicates.
- Put the Standings and Schedule blocks on your pages, and check them against your old ones.
- Deactivate SportsPress. The importer still works afterwards, and old links now redirect.
What changes for the better
Blocks, not shortcodes
Standings, schedules, rosters and stats are blocks you place and arrange in the WordPress editor, with templates you can edit in the Site Editor.
Standings worked out once
Leaguewise calculates standings and player totals when a result is saved, so big leagues stay fast.
Ties explained
Every tied place in the table says why it was broken, so you answer fewer "why are we below them?" emails.
Youth players protected
Players under the age you choose appear with a shortened name and no personal details, everywhere on the site.
Practices on the schedule
Practices and team events sit on the same schedule as games, without counting toward the standings.
Operations when you want them
Leaguewise Pro adds registration, payments, notifications and a schedule generator. See Pro.
Try the import on a copy of your site
The dry run changes nothing, so you can see exactly what Leaguewise will do before you commit.