World Cup Predictor is a plugin developed by Ian Haycox and Landoweb Programmer that allows WordPress site owners to offer their own prediction competition (also known as Bolão in Brazil) involving the matches of the World Cup.
One of the main benefits of the plugin is its simplicity in use. Just install and activate the plugin and then access the Overview page (in the WCP Cup menu) in the admin panel to configure it. We have provided a Create Pages button, which automatically creates the 5 recommended pages for the plugin to operate: Predictions, Ranking, Group Tables, Predictions by Match and Predictions of User.
All the plugin’s functionalities are generated from the shortcode world-cup-predictor. This shortcode accepts some parameters responsible for displaying the Prediction form, the ranking table, the group classification, among others. All options can be found in the Help section within the WCP Cup menu, but as previously mentioned, when you click on the Create Pages button, the pages will already be created including their respective shortcodes.
Once the prediction form has been created, any user logged into the site will be able to save their predictions for the games. These predictions can be modified at will until the start of the matches (there is a countdown on the predictions page indicating how much time is left until the matches start). After the matches have taken place, users will earn points according to the accuracy of their predictions. By default, we award 10 points for correct predictions, 4 points for predicting draws, 6 points for predicting the winner of the games, 1 point for predicting the correct number of goals for one of the teams and 0 points for predicting the goal difference. However, site administrators have complete freedom to configure the scoring as they prefer. Simply access the Predictions section (in WCP Cup) and go to the Configure Scoring tab.
Finally, World Cup Predictor is a plugin with over 24 thousand downloads, tested and approved since the 2010 World Cup. It is currently in version 1.9.7, providing coverage of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™, which will be played in June. We will still implement some improvements to the plugin before the start of the tournament. If you have any suggestions, you can contact us through support: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/world-cup-predictor/
We hope you have fun with our plugin!
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