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Simple Tournament Brackets

by SimpleTournamentBrackets · Uncategorized

Display tournament brackets on any page using a shortcode. Supports manual seeding and any size tournaments up to 256 competitors.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
79 Health · B
Maintenance 89/100
Rating quality 75/100
Support 70/100

79 health vs 56 average across 16,378 Uncategorized plugins

Directory ranking optimization

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89 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 60/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+5% vs prior 30d
5Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

103

now · peak 575

10330d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Simple Tournament Br · #10664 you Tournamatch · #13773 MSTW Bracket Builder · #17129 Etsy Shop · #3776

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.1Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

343per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

3

releases in the last 12 months

6mo ago

latest release · v1.3.1

9

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.1 · 6mo ago1.3.0 · 7mo ago1.2.0 · 12mo ago1.1.3 · 1.5y ago1.1.2 · 2.8y ago1.1.1 · 3.5y ago1.1.0 · 3.5y ago1.0.1 · 3.7y ago1.0 · 4.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 68% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 68%
v1.1 21%
v1.2 11%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈390

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,384 observations

300Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.3.1
Last updated
6mo ago
Added
2022-05-19 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP
5.6.20

Recent reviews

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  1. sambodinho
    6mo ago

    This plugin was perfect for our needs – a cricket website with playoff rounds that I needed certain registered users to be able amend via the front end. Whats more, I needed a little extra functionality so reached out to the dev here on the forum. Almost instantaneously they replied and added the function to the plugin. Updated it my end and there it was. Fantastic! Thank you so much.

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  2. neilmstevenson
    1.4y ago

    This is a great plugin and works very well. I know it says it is “Simple” but it could do with a couple of tweaks. Great for singles competitions but does not work for pairs, triples and fours. The box is not big enough Would be great if a blank line (or something) gave the next (or previous) entry a bye into the next round

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  3. mattyshack
    1.6y ago

    Update: Got it to work with some help from the developer. Pretty basic plug in, no way to customize brackets. But if you are looking for a very basic tournament bracket. This would work for you. This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by mattyshack.

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  4. nickdgreen
    2.5y ago

    Nothing else is available that provides the functionality provided by Simple Tournament Brackets. Additionally, when I hit a problem with tournaments not loading the response to the support ticket was quick and after some info back and forth they quickly identified that it was restrictions applied by Solid Security Basic that were causing the problem. Restrictions were removed and back in business quickly. I’ve found larger competitions are a bit slow to load on a page but hopefully that can be improved. I look forward to seeing how this plugin develops. Five stars for support four for plugin performance.

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  5. internass
    2.6y ago

    Used it for a golf league. Works excellent. Would be nice if you could also add a bracket for 3 en 4th place

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  6. lanboyguyton
    2.8y ago

    I tried several test tournaments (on pages and pots) and posted one, and it doesn’t advance when I select a winner. Here’s the page where mines is on: etazero.com/g-o-t-y/ Here’s a short clip of the issue: drive.google.com/file/d/1B5fDQhJyptZIexYmHIAK7cHP_RJjlLMm/view?usp=sharing This topic was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by lanboyguyton.

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  7. nievasnows
    3.3y ago

    Luego de crear el torneo y el fixture, cuando seleccionas el equipo ganador no pasa nada, no funciona

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  8. polarbjorn
    4.2y ago

    Great plugin. Works good and very easy to use. Thank you

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

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Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Danish 57%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-07-04 200+ → 300+ up after 6 days in tier
  2. 2024-06-28 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
  3. 2024-06-26 200+ → 300+ up after 330 days in tier
  4. 2023-08-01 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2023-07-30 200+ → 100+ down after 59 days in tier
  6. 2023-06-01 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2023-05-31 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in tier
  8. 2023-05-28 100+ → 200+ up after 194 days in tier

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