UPDATE: I have stopped development on this plugin due to the fact that the Twitter Poker Tour league disbanded some time ago. I am posting the module here to be downloaded and used.

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Download the WP-PokerLeague Plugin

I had a need for a wordpress plugin to manage the Twitter Poker Tour poker league Leader Board and Schedule. I sent along my project plan to John Hawkins (@vegasgeek) of 9Seeds to have him give me an estimate for getting it created and after a few conversations I realized that it was no small task. Having more time than money to dedicate to my poker/web related projects I decided to give it a go myself.

Had the project been smaller or my budget bigger, I would have had John and 9Seeds do the work. I’ve met John in person at a charity poker tournament in Vegas (via @PokerVixen) and he’s a speaker at Wordcamp conferences around the country. So I knew he would understand the project from both a poker and a wordpress standpoint.

I’ve written several PHP/MySQL based web apps in the past for a variety of clients/employers and I am certainly above average when it comes to WordPress (self-hype). So once I got over the hurdle of interfacing a PHP/MySQL based web app with WordPress then I was back in my comfort zone.

And after all that, the WP Leader plugin was born! It is a wordpress plugin that will allow poker webmasters and poker league administrators to manage their online or live leagues. The plugin can manage seasons, events, players and poker rooms on the backend and can display Leader Boards, Event Schedules and Event Results on the front end.

So, I guess I’m a WordPress Plugin Developer, sortof.