Display American football league standings and schedules from publicly available XML data on your WordPress site.

Daniel Schmidt-Richert

<p>Gridirontables AFVD fetches league standings and game schedules from a publicly available XML API, stores them locally, and displays them via shortcodes.</p>
<p>This plugin is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected to the AFVD (American Football Verband Deutschland) or any of its member associations.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Import standings and schedules for any league available in the XML API</li>
<li>Automatic sync via WP-Cron (hourly, twice daily, daily, or manual)</li>
<li>Per-league team name for highlighting</li>
<li>Configurable table colors (header, highlight) with active theme palette support</li>
<li>Groups are auto-detected from imported data</li>
<li>Responsive schedule table for mobile</li>
<li>Raw data viewer in the admin panel</li>
<li>German date format for schedules</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>[gridirontables_afvd_standings league="slug"]</code> — League standings table</li>
<li><code>[gridirontables_afvd_schedule league="slug"]</code> — Game schedule table</li>
</ul>
<h4>Schedule Attributes</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>home_only="1"</code> — Show only home games of the configured team</li>
<li><code>show="upcoming"</code> — Show only upcoming games</li>
<li><code>show="past"</code> — Show only past games</li>
<li><code>limit="5"</code> — Limit number of games shown</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shared Attributes</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>group="A"</code> — Show only a specific group</li>
<li><code>highlight="Team Name"</code> — Override team name for highlighting</li>
<li><code>class="my-class"</code> — Add custom CSS class</li>
<li><code>saison="2026"</code> — Override the season label shown in the heading</li>
</ul>
<h4>Standings Attributes</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>format="wins"</code> (default) — BSO record layout: W-L (Quotient) / TD / Home-Away</li>
<li><code>format="points"</code> — Legacy points layout: P+ / P- / TD+ / TD- (for archive data)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support development</h3>
<p>If this plugin saves you time, consider buying me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/dscr</p>


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