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This guide walks you through setting up your sports website with SL Kit—from installation to your first game. Follow these steps in order for the smoothest experience.

🚀 Step 1: Install SL Kit

Install and activate both plugins from your purchase. See the Installation Guide for detailed steps.

🎨 Step 2: Activate Kadence Theme and Blocks

Go to SL Kit in your WordPress admin menu. If Kadence theme is not active, you’ll see setup cards to install and activate it.

SL Kit menu showing Kadence theme installation card

After activating the theme, you’ll see a card for Kadence Blocks plugin. Install and activate it too—this is required for the demo page layouts to work properly.

SL Kit showing Kadence Blocks plugin installation card

📦 Step 3: Import Demo Content

Once Kadence is active, select a demo style and choose what to import.

Demo import options showing Core Data and WordPress Content sections

What to Import?

You have two options:

Option A: Import everything (recommended for testing)

Select all options including Sports Data. This gives you sample teams, players, and games to explore how the site works. After testing, remove the sports data before adding your real content.

Option B: Skip Sports Data (recommended for production)

Uncheck Sports Data if you want to start fresh with your own teams and players. You still get all the page layouts, theme settings, and menus.

Tip

For a real website, skip Sports Data from the beginning—you’ll save time by not having to remove demo content later.

Click Import and confirm.

Confirm import dialog with warning message

For full details on demo import options, backups, and removing data, see the Demo Import Guide.

Removing Demo Sports Data

If you imported everything and want to remove the demo sports data after testing:

  1. Go to SL Kit → Demo Import
  2. Find the imported demo in Imported Demos section
  3. Click Select Items
  4. Check only Sports Data
  5. Click Remove
Selective removal dialog with Sports Data checkbox highlighted

This removes only the demo teams, players, and games while keeping your page layouts, theme settings, and menus intact.

📊 Step 4: Set Up Your Sports Data

Now create your actual sports data. Follow this order for best results:

4.1 Create a Season and League

Seasons and leagues organize your tournaments. You need at least one of each before creating a tournament.

  1. Go to Sports Leagues → Seasons
  2. Add a season (e.g., “2024-25”)
  3. Go to Sports Leagues → Leagues
  4. Add a league (e.g., “Regional League” or your league name)

See Seasons & Leagues for details.

4.2 Add Teams

Create your team and the opponent teams.

  1. Go to Teams & People → Add Team
  2. Add your team with full details (logo, colors, etc.)
  3. Add opponent teams—but set them to Hidden status

Single-Team Website Tip

Running a site for just your club? Set opponent teams to Hidden status. They’ll appear in games and standings but won’t have dedicated pages. See Hiding Teams and Players.

See Teams for details.

4.3 Create Players for Your Team

Add your team’s players and assign them to your team’s roster.

  1. Go to Teams & People → Add Player
  2. Fill in player details (name, photo, position, number)
  3. Save the player
  4. Go to your team’s edit page
  5. In the Roster section, add the player to the current season

For opponent players, you have two options:

  • Temporary players: Add them directly in the game editor—no database entry needed
  • Hidden players: Create player posts but set to Hidden status

See Players & Staff and Team Roster for details.

4.4 Create a Tournament

Tournaments contain your games. You need at least one tournament before creating games.

  1. Go to Sports Leagues → Tournaments
  2. Add a new tournament
  3. Select the season and league you created
  4. Add teams to the tournament
  5. Configure stages if needed (round-robin, knockout, etc.)

See Tournaments for details.

4.5 Check Game Events and Stats Settings

Before creating games, verify that event types and statistics columns match your sport.

  • Game Events: Go to Sports Settings → Game Events to configure goals, assists, cards, etc.
  • Player Statistics: Go to Sports Settings → Columns Builder to set up stat columns for your sport

See Game Events and Player Statistics for details.

4.6 Create a Standing Table

Create a standing to display league rankings.

  1. Go to Sports Leagues → Standings
  2. Add a new standing
  3. Select the tournament and stage
  4. Configure columns, tiebreakers, and position colors

See Standings and Standing Table for details.

🏠 Step 5: Update Your Pages and Menus

The demo import creates pages with placeholder IDs. Update them with your actual data:

Update the Homepage

  1. Go to Pages and edit your homepage
  2. Find shortcodes and blocks that reference team IDs (e.g., team_id="123")
  3. Replace demo IDs with your actual team and tournament IDs
  4. Update any hero images or slider content

Update Navigation Menus

  1. Go to Appearance → Menus
  2. Update team links to point to your actual team pages
  3. Remove or update any demo-specific menu items

🎊 You’re Ready!

Your sports website is set up. Now create your first game and watch the data appear on your site.

📚 What’s Next

TaskDocumentation
Create and edit gamesGames
Display data with shortcodesDisplay Shortcodes
Customize block layoutsBlock Patterns
Build custom entity pagesBlocks Everywhere
Explore SL Kit blocksBlocks Reference
Explore premium featuresPremium Features

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