Last update: Version 4.6.1 – February 10, 2025

The League - Sports News & Magazine WordPress Theme - 1

The League - Sports News & Magazine WordPress Theme - 2

The League is the premier sports news theme for WordPress. Add an instant, undeniable level of credibility and professionalism to your sports news site or blog with a SportsPress compatibility, a Custom Scoreboard, 8 Article Layouts, 4 Featured Posts Layouts, Mobile-First Responsiveness, access to over 800 Google Fonts, and so much more, including Theia Post Slider and Theia Sticky Sidebar included at no extra charge!

More Key Features

One-Click Demo Import – Quickly set up the theme like the demo with the One Click Demo Import plugin!

Optional Custom Scoreboard – Enter and display scores in a matter of seconds with The League’s custom-built scoreboard. You can customize the scoreboard to fit your own team or league by entering the sport or team you need.

Featured Headlines – Most major news and magazine sites use shorter “teaser” headlines in their featured content sections. The League gives you the same option to spruce up your featured items in the Featured Posts section on the homepage and category pages.

RTL Ready – With access to over 800+ Google fonts and a built-in RTL feature that lets you switch the stylesheet to RTL with the click of a button, it has never been easier to set your site to RTL.

Video/Audio Posts – Easily replace the standard featured image in posts with embedded video or audio from sites like YouTube, Vimeo, and SoundCloud.

Retina Ready – The theme and its images look sharp and crisp on retina-ready devices!

800+ Google Fonts – Use any of the over 800 Google Fonts to set the fonts for the general text, navigation menu text, Featured Posts & Headlines, article title, and headings.

Unlimited Colors – Easily change the colors of the main background, navigation background/text, the primary theme color, and links to any color from within the Theme Options.

Unlimited Ad Units – The League takes full advantage of available ad space to give you a myriad of options to place your ads. The ad units include a main leaderboard area with adjustable height and width that can accommodate any size ad, an Ad Widget that can accommodate 300px wide ads of any height in the sidebar as well as any size leaderboard ad in the homepage widget area. The League also comes with a Wallpaper Ad that spans the width of the screen and site behind the content area.

Complete List of Features

Compatible with WordPress 6.8+
SEO Optimized
RTL Ready
Google AMP Ready
HTML5 & CSS3
Translation ready (contains .po/.mo files)
Child Theme included
Comes with XML dummy data (posts, tags, categories, menus, dummy images)
Easy implementation with Google Adsense ads
WordPress Featured Image support
WordPress Custom Background support
WordPress Custom Menu support
Unlimited Colors
Youtube, Vimeo, and Soundcloud integration
Schema.org Rich Snippets
Custom Fly-Out Navigation
WooCommerce compatible
bbPress compatible
Infinite Scroll
Custom Theme Options panel
Custom CSS section in Theme Options so users will not lose custom changes to CSS when you update to a new version
Full-Width Posts
Megamenus
Facebook comments support
Built-In Disqus comments support
Free lifetime updates
Easy logo customization
800+ Google Fonts
Threaded comments
Ability to turn Featured Image on posts on/off
Ability to turn social buttons on posts on/off
Optional Caption/Photo Credit below Featured Images in posts
Custom copyright/footer text
Custom favicon
In-depth documentation
And much more!

Support

MVP Themes takes pride in its support! If you have any questions related to the setup of The League that are not covered by the theme documentation or if you run into any bugs with the theme, please submit a ticket at the MVP Themes Support Center.

Unfortunately, MVP Themes cannot perform customization work for each of our customers, so The League comes “as-is”. Any customization you would like to make to the theme outside of fixing bugs will need to be done by you or a third party.

Updates

v4.6.1 – February 10, 2025

Fixes issues with FontAwesome and Theme Options from previous update

Affected files:
/admin/admin-interface.php
/font-awesome/ (entire folder)
header.php
style.css

v4.6.0 – February 3, 2025

Important security update
Updates FontAwesome to latest version
Fixes bug with mobile social sharing buttons

Affected files:
/admin/admin-interface.php
author.php
fly-menu.php
footer.php
header.php
page.php
single.php
style.css

v4.5.0 – November 12, 2021

Adds TikTok social site buttons and updates Font Awesome to latest version.

Affected files:
MVP Social Fields plugin (version 1.01)
/admin/theme-settings.php
/font-awesome (entire folder)
featured.php
fly-menu.php
footer.php
functions.php
header.php
page.php
page-fullwidth.php
single.php
style.css

v4.4.1 – August 12, 2021

Fixes bug with replying to comments

Affected files:
comments.php
style.css

v4.4.0 – June 9, 2021

Adds ability to use shortcodes in all ad areas

Affected files:
/widgets/widget-ad.php
featured.php
functions.php
header.php
style.css

v4.3.0 – March 13, 2021

Fixed bug with scrolling navigation

Affected files:
featured.php
style.css

v4.2.1 – October 29, 2020

Fixed bug with Featured Posts 4 layout

Affected files:
featured.php
style.css

v4.2.0 – September 1, 2020

Fixed bug with comments caused by WordPress 5.5. update
Fixes bug with video embeds after WordPress 5.5 Update
Fixed minor bug with Featured Posts 4 layout

Affected files:
featured.php
functions.php
style.css

v4.1.0 – September 11, 2019

Adds compatibility with SportsPress Pro
Updates category Featured Posts function

Affected files:
category.php
functions.php
style.css

v4.0.0 – July 19, 2018

New Feature! – Adds Google AMP compatibility
Adds TGMPA Plugin Activation function
Updates Theia Post Slider to the latest version (2.0.0)

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/css/amp-style.css
/css/amp-media-queries.css
amp-fly-menu.php
amp-single.php
functions.php
style.css

v3.2.0 – April 5, 2018

Adds One-Click Demo Import feature

Affected files:
All files in /import/ folder
functions.php
style.css

v3.1.0 – November 9, 2017

Fixes bug with color of SportsPress
Fixes bug with tabbing of scores page which is included in the updated version of MVP Themes Scoreboard plugin (1.1)
Fixes bug with the translation of the word “ago”
Fixes bug with PHP7 compatibility with widgets
Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (1.15.1)

Affected files:
All files

v3.0.0 – August 22, 2017

NEW FEATURE! Adds new Featured Posts layout
NEW FEATURE! Adds mobile-compatible Scoreboard page
NEW FEATURE! Adds RTL Compatibility
Fixes bug with scoreboard posts when using Default Templates 5 and 6
Fixes load issues by updating retina.js file

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/css/media-queries.css
/css/media-queries-rtl.css
/css/rtl.css
/js/jquery.elastislide.js
/js/jquery.elastislide-rtl.js
/js/retina.js
/js/scripts.js
featured.php
functions.php
page-scores.php
single.php
style.css

v2.1.0 – May 24, 2017

Fixes bug with translation of dates in widgets
Fixes WooCommerce bug caused by retina function

Affected files:
/js/retina.js
/widgets/widget-catfeat-php
/widgets/widget-home-catlist.php
/widgets/widget-home-tagfeat.php
/widgets/widget-tagfeat.php
functions.php
style.css

v2.0.1 – April 27, 2017

Makes theme compatible with WooCommerce 3.0

Affected files:
functions.php
style.css

v2.0.0 – April 25, 2017

NEW FEATURE! Adds SportsPress compatibility
Adds days limit for Trending Posts in Featured #4 layout
Adds “Advertisement” text above sidebar ads to comply with Google Adsense
Fixes bug with Featured Posts title in mobile version
Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (1.14.0)
Updates Theia Sticky Sidebar to latest version (1.7.0)

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/css/media-queries.css
/widgets/widget-ad.php
functions.php
header.php
page.php
page-sp.php
sidebar-sp.php
single.php
style.css

v1.02.0 – March 7, 2017

NEW FEATURE! Adds 4 new widgets
NEW FEATURE! Adds “Light” skin to scoreboard
Fixes bug with post social sharing buttons
Fixes bug with sidebar display
Fixes bug with Featured Posts 2 layout

Affected files:
All

v1.01.0 – March 1, 2017

NEW FEATURE! Adds two more post templates
Adds date to posts throughout site
Improves display of social sharing buttons on mobile devices
Provides toggle on/off and “hide” options for Trending Posts box on articles

Affected files:
/css/media-queries.css
/js/scripts.js
/widgets/widget-home-catlist.php
archive.php
category.php
footer.php
functions.php
header.php
index.php
page-home.php
page-latest.php
search.php
single.php
style.css

v1.0.1 – February 23, 2017

Fixes bug with flyout menu logo
Fixes bug with Featured Posts 1 layout
Fixes bug with Google Fonts

Affected files:
/css/media-queries.css
featured.php
fly-menu.php
functions.php
style.css

The League WordPress Theme