Football Pool WordPress Plugin
Logged in users of your blog can predict outcomes of matches and earn extra points with bonus questions. Every player can view scores and charts of the other pool contenders.
This plugin installs some custom tables in the database and ships with match information for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, but it can be easily manipulated with the match info for other championships or sports. Please note that deactivating this plugin may also delete all the plugin's data from the database, please check the 'keep data on uninstall' option on the settings page (it is set by default since version 2.3.1).
I originally coded this pool in PHP as a standalone site for the UEFA 2000 championship and rewrote the damn thing several times for every European Championship and World Cup since. Every year I added new features. In 2012 I decided to transform it into a WordPress plugin. I h
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Usage of Football Pool over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 40 to 31 — down 9 (-22.5%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 31 | +2 |
| June 2024 | 29 | -1 |
| May 2024 | 30 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 30 | +1 |
| March 2024 | 29 | -3 |
| February 2024 | 32 | -1 |
| January 2024 | 33 | -1 |
| December 2023 | 34 | +1 |
| November 2023 | 33 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 33 | -3 |
| September 2023 | 36 | -4 |
| August 2023 | 40 | -1 |
| July 2023 | 41 | +1 |
| June 2023 | 40 | — |
Themes used with Football Pool
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Gonzo |
| 2 | Profitmag |
| 3 | Sportica |
| 4 | The-box |
| 5 | Megaphone |
| 6 | Quadrum-theme |
| 7 | Diamond |
| 8 | Gunners |
| 9 | Football-club |
| 10 | Profitmag-child |
| 11 | Eurofifa |
| 12 | Quest |
| 13 | Realsoccer-v1-06 |
| 14 | Munza |
| 15 | Smart-mag |
| 16 | Smart-mag-child |
| 17 | Accesspress-mag |
| 18 | Sportsmag |
| 19 | Frfanatic |
| 20 | Neosense |
Sites running Football Pool
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