About Sportal365
Martin Tsekov
In this section, you will find answers to general questions about the Sportal365 content management system.
Sportal365 is a headless content management system (CMS) designed to serve the needs of sports media, bookmakers, and sports rights holders.
At its core, the CMS allows the creation of well-rounded content by integrating sports data, editorial content, and social media into a single article, keeping all information in one place.
The platform is designed to enable creators to perform fast and extensive coverage of sports events and deliver it on any device without being dependent on one data provider.
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The difference between a headless CMS such as Sportal365 and a traditional CMS (WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal) lies in the architecture of the systems.
In a traditional content management system, the back end and front end are tightly connected. Content is pushed from a database to a predefined layout. The back end lets users create, store, manage, and publish content, while the front end offers built-in templates and is responsible for how content is presented.
On the flip side, a headless CMS has the “head”(front end) removed from the body (back end). A headless CMS has no predefined templates for displaying data and lets users publish content on any device. Such systems come with a back end for content and storage management and an application programming interface (API) for connecting the back end to any front-end application.
See A headless CMS.
Yes. Normally, clients develop their own front end and connect it to the CMS, but to make things easier, we have developed a tool based on WordPress that lets you launch a website without writing code. Generally speaking, you download WordPress, we give you our in-house developed plug-in and a basic version of your website is ready.
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The Sportal365 CMS supports and gives you granular control over four major content types – articles, videos, galleries, and images.
In addition, the system allows you to integrate and manage statistical sports widgets in your posts, as well as social media data.
As a headless CMS, Sportal365 doesn’t come with predefined templates but lets you publish your content to any device (website, wearable, application, and so on).
To publish content to a front-end framework (i.e. website) you want, you first must build it and then integrate with our back end using our APIs.
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No, Sportal365 is a content management system that is not connected to predefined website templates like traditional CMSs. It lets you create compelling sports-specific content that you can reuse across any device.
If you want to create a website, you will have to design and code it yourself. We give you access to our back end and API so that you can create, manage, and update the content on your website, mobile app, or any other platform that displays content.
The Sportal365 CMS is a front-end agnostic, headless CMS, that lets you publish the content you create with the system on any device. The backend of the system is not connected to a pre-built front-end framework (e.g. WordPress), which allows users to publish content on any website, wearable, application, and so on.
Sportal365 supports all of the latest modern browsers:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Apple Safari
Microsoft Edge
Sportal365 is built for the dynamic environment of sports news coverage.
What sets the Sportal365 CMS apart is that while most content management platforms offer a basic user experience with limited (or none) sports statistics, the Sportal365 CMS combines editorial content, images, videos, and custom-built contextual widgets to deliver well-rounded articles and exhaustive information about the topics that interest readers.
Sportal365 significantly increases the speed of publishing and end-user experience. It is integrated with sports data from several data providers and offers pre-game and live odds from over 220 bookmakers.
The CMS comes in English but can support multiple languages. Depending on your needs, we can set up a project and offer the CMS in your preferred language.
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Sportal365 can support the data provider of your choice. We know how hard and expensive it is to change a data provider, that’s why we offer the choice to integrate with the data provider you want, once you access our API. This doesn't mean that you receive your data from several providers at the same time, but that we let you easily switch providers if necessary.
Yes, all content created with the Sportal365 CMS displays natively on all devices.
The writing and editing in blocks improve the performance of the system and make the display of content into a native and responsive experience on all mobile devices. Moreover, creating content in blocks reduces the reliance on shortcodes and custom HTML. The structure of data is more flexible, there is granular control over the content embedded inside, and blocks can be configured separately to allow you to deploy content to your website in any way you want.