Title: Brackets Ninja: Create Brackets &amp; Tournaments and Easily Manage Them Online
Author: Common Ninja
Published: <strong>March 8, 2014</strong>
Last modified: May 12, 2020

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# Brackets Ninja: Create Brackets & Tournaments and Easily Manage Them Online

 By [Common Ninja](https://profiles.wordpress.org/commonninja/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/brackets-ninja.zip)

 * [Details](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/brackets-ninja/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/brackets-ninja/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/brackets-ninja/#installation)
 * [Development](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/brackets-ninja/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/brackets-ninja/)

## Description

[Brackets Ninja](https://brackets.commoninja.com/) is a super powerful plugin for
creating and managing brackets and tournaments and easily add them to your website.
Brackets Ninja’s brackets are easy to create and manage, and suits for leagues, 
championships, tournaments, and games.

[You may browse our public gallery to see some examples.](https://brackets.commoninja.com/gallery)

**IMPORTANT: In order to add a bracket to your WordPress website, you will FIRST
need to go to [Brackets Ninja](https://brackets.commoninja.com), sign up for FREE,
and create a new bracket in our bracket maker.**

Got any feedback or question? Contact us via contact{at}commoninja.com.

** It’s really easy. Get started in 2 minutes tops, no training needed! **

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Brackets Ninja shortcode
 * [[
 * Brackets Ninja example 1 in a post
 * [[
 * Brackets Ninja example 2 in a post
 * [[
 * Brackets Ninja example 3 in a post
 * [[

## Installation

#### Creating a bracket

 1. Create a FREE account at [Brackets Ninja](https://brackets.commoninja.com).
 2. Create a new bracket by clicking the “Try it now” button on Brackets Ninja’s homepage.
 3. Customize the bracket. Make it beautiful. Add teams & players, select the bracket
    type (single elimination, double elimination, march madness, etc), and change the
    look and feel to match your brand.
 4. Click the “Save Changes” button.

#### Extracting the bracket ID

 1. Go to your account’s [dashboard](https://user.commoninja.com/dashboard?type=bracket).
 2. Find the bracket you want to add, and click the plugin’s menu (3 dots icon).
 3. Look for the “Add to Site” button and click it.
 4. Under the embeddable code, you’ll see a “Plugin ID” section. Copy the ID, and save
    it for later.

#### Attaching a bracket to a WordPress post

 1. Use Bracket Ninja’s shortcode directly in the editor: [bracketsninja bracketid=”
    YOUR_BRACKET_ID”].
 2. Make sure you replace `YOUR_BRACKET_ID` with the one from “Extracting the bracket
    ID” section above.

Arguments provides by the shortcode:

 * ‘bracketid’ – Your plugin ID from Common Ninja

## FAQ

### Q: What is Brackets Ninja?

Brackets Ninja is a powerful tool for web designers, developers, and site owners
to create and manage brackets and tournaments online.

### Q: What can I use Brackets Ninja for?

You can use Brackets Ninja to create beautiful brackets for leagues, tournaments,
and championships, and easily add them to your website

### Q: Who can use Brackets Ninja

Everyone. Really, it’s that simple. We’re using innovative and intuitive user interfaces
so you don’t need any prior knowledge to use it.

### Q: How do I start using Brackets Ninja?

Sign up to [Brackets Ninja](https://brackets.commoninja.com), create a new bracket
and install the Brackets Ninja plugin on your WordPress admin panel.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[nice one](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-one-363/)󠁿

 [mrhackingman](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrhackingman/) November 5, 2020

nice one i did not knew how does it work but now i understand but soo much restriction

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### 󠀁[Very slow](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-slow-31/)󠁿

 [Sens4](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sens4/) March 28, 2019

Not working anymore

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/brackets-ninja/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Brackets Ninja: Create Brackets & Tournaments and Easily Manage Them Online” is
open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Common Ninja ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/commonninja/)

[Translate “Brackets Ninja: Create Brackets & Tournaments and Easily Manage Them Online” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/brackets-ninja)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/brackets-ninja/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/brackets-ninja/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/brackets-ninja/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/brackets-ninja/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.1.0

 * Removing button from editor, updating shortcode

#### 2.0.1

 * Updating main script

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial Version

## Meta

 *  Version **2.1.0**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.4.19**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/brackets-ninja/)
 * Tags
 * [brackets](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/brackets/)[sports](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sports/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/brackets-ninja/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Common Ninja ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/commonninja/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/brackets-ninja/)

## Donate

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