Games Arcade Website powered by WordPress
I have recently been working on a highly versatile premium theme for WordPress which is due for release soon. As part of the project I wanted to test how the theme (and WordPress itself) could work with sites of various different genres. My intention was that the theme would be configurable enough via it's Options Menu that it could easily be styled to suit corporate sites such as recruitment, blue chip company, technology site & product portfolio, media sites such as magazine, news, image & video gallery and also youth oriented sites such as music / band website, games website.
The theme also features simple integration for banners and advertising, so creating a couple of 'working example' sites was not only a good way of testing the theme's versatility but also a potential source of a few extra quid!
I had been wanting to do a games & videos website for a while, and I had built the theme's default settings around a 'corporate magazine' look & feel, so I decided the games site would be a great way to test the theme. Here is my wordpress games arcade site so far: Zap Gamez
I decided to look around and see what articles I could find about creating a games arcade website with wordpress, or if there was a plugin that allowed you to easily insert games into your WordPress blog. I found this article by Emanuele Feronato:
It describes a method of populating your WordPress blog with games via a feed from MochiAds (A source of free games for websites) using custom fields. However, for my site I wanted to be able to integrate games from various free content suppliers and host games on my own server as well as embedding games hosted by content suppliers. What I really wanted was a plugin that could embed games into posts or pages using shortcodes.
THE PLUGIN
The prototype plugin I have built includes the following features:
4 Different views:
- Grid view - a grid of thumbnail images linking to each game (can be restricted to a single category or parent category)
- Category view - this view includes a medium sized image and a written description of the game
- Single page view - the page where you play the game itself
- Featured Game view - a page with a list of featured games
Different embedding modes:
- iFrame embedding - embed iFrame content using code provided by free games sites, or use this method to display games from your own server where an html file has been provided with the free game download.
- Flash embedding - embed Flash content using embed codes provided by other sites, or embed flash games directly from your own site. You can even upload them easily using the wordpress 'Add Media' tool.
The beta version of the WP Game Embed plugin can be found here.
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wow i think wordpress just for blog, but im wrong, good idea bro
visit mine i have lotz of free games too -yay-
Nice plugin, made myself also a mochiads wordpress plugin, its still in decelopment.
i heavily cusomized a video theme for the layout.
you might wanne check it some times.
god job…
grts,
chris
Hey, this is cool free stuff
Awesome post. Very informative
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i am new to wordpress but i like this site, good article… and i like the sound od the flash arcade….
i have downloaded your beta plugins, nice plugin mate, thanks
So, this is interesting for me, I will translate it and post to my saite http://grang.info Thanks, Alex
Great article, adding it to my bookmarks!
Great work with the blog mate let me know if you want to partner up with my blog as well! =]
Nice your beta
I’ll gonna translate in romanian language this post and i will put a direct link to your site. Thank you
Very cool. I finally got around to changing my own games site, http://www.kwikgames.com over to Wordpress earlier this year. After years of updating static HTML pages it was high time I made the switch and was thoroughly worth it…
I love your thumbnail “grid”! You might want to use a rating plugin, there are quite a few good ones, so you can show most popular games and encourage more user interaction, but overall it looks great. And to anyone thinking of using WP for a games site I highly recommend it!
that is what i need
thanks!
Very nice articles. Thanks men.
Nice article. But there are other sides which are based on wordpress and use mochi games: http://highscoregaming.net
Cheers idic
The wordpress site looks good. I especially like the huge thumbs.
Very cool. I finally got around to changing my own games site
i heavily cusomized a video theme for the layout.
you might wanne check it some times.
god job…