Clayside

Club website widgets

Club website widgets you paste in once and forget

Clayside is competition and membership software for racket sports clubs. A widget is a piece of it that lives on your own website: this season's table, the club ladder, the latest results, or a card that tells a visitor how to join.

Two lines to paste Right within a minute Free on every plan

The problem

The table on your club website is from last season

Your league moved on two seasons ago. The website did not, and everybody at the club has learnt not to look at it.

01

The page nobody can edit

Whoever built the website left the club in 2019. Changing anything on it means finding them, or finding the login, and the table is not worth either.

02

The table typed out twice

You sort the league out on Sunday night, then type the same eight names into the website. By Wednesday somebody has played and the two disagree.

03

The visitor with nowhere to go

Somebody finds the club online, reads that there is a box league, and can see no way to put their name down. So they do not.

The widgets

Four widgets, live from the demo club

These are not pictures of widgets. Each one below is being loaded from the tennis demo club while you read this page, from the same address a club pastes into its own site.

That club plays a real season and starts again every hour, so what you are looking at is whatever it has done this hour.

This season's table

Every box in the season as a strip of tabs, or one box pinned if that is all you want on the page. Position, name, played, won, lost and points, with a green edge on the places going up and a red one on the places going down.

A score approved on Clayside is in this table the next time somebody opens your page.

The club ladder

Rank, name, rating and matches played, best first. A club running more than one ladder picks which of them goes on the page, and how many rows.

The latest results

The last few approved results across the boxes, newest first, with the box and the day. A walkover is a walkover and a retirement is a retirement, in the same words your players entered them in.

This is the liveliest thing a club website can carry, and it is the one nobody has ever kept up by hand.

A way in for a visitor

Your club's name, what it runs, and a button. On the club plans it opens your joining form with this year's categories and prices on it. On the others it opens your club link, which puts a stranger's name in front of you to approve.

Either way there is a sign-in line under it for somebody who is already a member.

The draw for a club championship and today's court sheet are two more, on the same two lines.

Installing it

The two lines that go on your website

Open Website in your club's Clayside, choose the widget, set your colour, and copy what it writes for you.

<iframe src="https://oxted.clayside.app/embed/standings/?accent=1d4ed8"
  title="Oxted LTC box league" width="100%" height="440" loading="lazy"
  style="border:0;max-width:640px"></iframe>
<p><a href="https://clayside.app/">Powered by Clayside</a></p>

The address is your club's. The colour, the title and the height are what you chose on the Website screen, so the frame fits the number of rows you asked for. Nothing is stored at our end: those two lines on your page are the whole record of it.

The second line is a plain link back to us, sitting in your page rather than inside the frame. It is the only thing on the page that is ours, and it is all we ask for.

Website builders

Where the two lines go on your website builder

Every one of these has a block for pasted HTML. Find it, paste, save the page, and you are finished with the website.

  • WordPress Add a Custom HTML block and paste both lines into it.
  • Wix Add, then Embed Code, then Embed HTML, and paste.
  • Squarespace Add a block, choose Code, and paste.
  • Google Sites Insert, then Embed, then Embed code, and paste.
  • Weebly, Jimdo, IONOS and GoDaddy Drag in the Embed code element and paste.
  • Anything else that lets you paste HTML Any page with an HTML or code block takes it. If your site has none, put a plain link to your club's Clayside address on the page instead.

Questions

What clubs ask about website widgets

How soon does our website show a new result?

Within a minute. The widget is worked out fresh from your league and held for sixty seconds at most, so a score approved on Clayside at half past eight is on your club website by twenty-nine minutes to nine.

Nobody edits the website for it, and there is nothing to press. The page is the same two lines it was in September.

Do our members have to sign in to see the table?

No. A widget shows what your league page already shows a stranger: names, positions and scores, and nothing else. There is no email address, no phone number and no birthday anywhere near it.

A club that has shut its competitions to members only gets a card on its website saying so, rather than a table. One switch covers both.

Does it put a cookie on a visitor's computer?

No, and it sets nothing else either. There is no tracker in it, no third-party font and no script of any kind: a widget is a page of text and a stylesheet, and that is the whole of it.

What happens is that a visitor to your website fetches one small page from us. Our privacy policy says so in a line of its own.

Will it look right on a phone?

It is as wide as you let it be, and it stays inside whatever column your website gives it. On a narrow screen the table drops played, won and lost, and keeps position, name and points, because that is what somebody standing in the car park is looking for.

You choose light or dark, or let it follow whatever the reader's phone is set to.

Can we match it to our club colours?

Set the accent to your club's colour and it runs through the heading, the tabs and the buttons. Turn the title bar off if your website already has a heading above it, and turn the sponsor line off if you would rather it were not there.

The type is ours by default, so it reads like the app your members already use. Switch it to your website's own type and the widget disappears into the page.

Which plans have widgets?

All of them, the free plan and the fourteen-day trial included. It costs nothing and it is not counted, capped or held back for a bigger plan.

The one thing a widget can only show is something your plan runs: a club with no ladder has no ladder widget to paste.

What if our website builder strips the iframe out?

Some of the cheaper website plans do, and there is no way round it from our end. Try the widget's address on its own first, because several builders take an address where they will not take pasted HTML.

If neither works, put a plain link to your club's Clayside address on the page. It is one tap for a member and it never goes out of date.

What is the address behind the joining card?

Your club link, which is one address for the whole club, all year. It signs a member in and it puts a stranger in front of you to approve, and it is short enough to read down the phone or print under a QR code on the noticeboard.

The widget reads it from your league every time it draws, so replacing the link changes what the button on your website opens within the minute, with nobody editing the website.

Your website

Put this week's table on your club's website

Widgets are free on every plan, the free plan and the fourteen-day trial included. Build one in the demo club first: the screen is the same one your club gets.

The demo hands you the owner's view, so you can build a widget and copy it without an account. It resets every hour.