Description
Keep your sports site visitors engaged with dynamic match updates! WhenIsTheMatch Widget lets you easily display your favorite team’s next upcoming football match along with real-time score updates during game day.
Perfect for fan blogs, sports news portals, and local club websites looking for a clean, responsive match preview block.
⚽ Key Features
- Next Match Countdown: Dynamic timer counting down to kick-off.
- Live Score Updates: Real-time scores and goal tracking for ongoing matches.
- Detailed Match Info: Venue, referee details, and TV channel broadcasts (where available).
- 800+ Teams Supported: Full coverage across major international leagues, cups, and club teams.
- Multilingual Ready: Adapts smoothly for international audiences.
- Lightweight & Fast: Built with performance in mind to avoid slowing down your site.
Usage
Display the widget anywhere on your site (posts, pages, sidebar widgets) using shortcodes.
Quick Start
[whenisthematch team="spain"]
Parameters
- team (required): The slug for the team you want to display (e.g.,
real-madrid,arsenal,spain). You can find team slugs on WhenIsTheMatch.com. - lang (optional): Widget language code. Options:
en(default),fr,es,it,de,pt,ja,hi. - branding (optional): Set to
trueto display a subtle link below the widget. Enabling this helps support ongoing free plugin development! (Default:false)
Shortcode Examples
Basic Spanish Match Widget:
[whenisthematch team=”barcelona” lang=”es”]
Widget with Support Branding Enabled:
[whenisthematch team=”chelsea” branding=”true”]
External Services
This plugin embeds match information from WhenIsTheMatch.
The widget loads content from:
https://whenisthematch.com
No account or API key is required.
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FAQ
Where can I find team slugs?
- Search for your team on WhenIsTheMatch.
- Look at the end of the website address (URL). The slug is the last part!
- Example URL:
https://whenisthematch.com/team/spain - Your Team Slug:
spain
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Contributors & Developers
“WhenIsTheMatch Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release.
