MyArcadePlugin Starter: WordPress Arcade Plugin

WordPress Arcade Example Sites

If you are new on to MyArcadePlugin, let’s check a few example sites to see what you can do with our Plugin. All of these sites use MyArcadePlugin to fetch and publish games. The theme shown in demo #1 is included with MyArcadePlugin Starter. Other demo sites use premium arcade themes which can be purchased separately.

MyArcadePlugin Starter: WordPress Arcade Plugin

MyArcadePlugin is the most used WordPress Arcade Plugin in the world and it is powering more than 100,000 WordPress Websites!

Our free version MyArcadePlugin Lite has been downloaded more than 60,000 times.

With MyArcadePlugin Starter you will be able to create an online games site with thousands of free games in a few minutes. Our WordPress Arcade Plugin is able to fetch games from 8 game distributors and import 7 different game types.

Game Distributors

Fetch thousands of games from most popular game distributors:

• 4J
• Famobi
• GameDistribution
• GameMonetize
• GamePix
• Kongregate
• MyArcadeFeed
• Softgames

Individual Game Types

Additionally to game fetching, MyArcadePlugin allows you to import games manually. The following games types are supported:

• HTML5 Games (Zip Files)
• HTML5 Games (embed code)
• Flash Games (SWF Files)
• Schochwave Games (DRC Files)
• Unity3D Games
• Embed Codes
• Iframe Codes

Awesome Statistics

MyArcadePlugin will collect plays and play duration for each game and user. Those data will be displayed on the statistics page and you can use them to determinate popular games on your site so you can better optimize the site for your audience.

Works with every WordPress Theme

We have designed MyArcadePlugin to work with every WordPress theme. It will embed game codes automatically to WordPress posts. If you are using MyArcadePlugin with a non arcade theme then set “Embed Game Code” on MyArcadePlugin settings to something else than “Manually”.

MyArcadePlugin Starter Features

Check out the list with some of the cool MyArcadePlugin Starter features:

• 8 Game Distributors
• 7 Game Types
• Stats Page with several useful widgets
• Automated Game Fetching
• Automated Game Publishing
• Individual Game Publishing
• Bulk Game Publishing
• Publish games immediately
• Publish games time shifted
• User friendly Game Management Panel
• Option to fetch only mobile games
• Option to embed games automatically (No theme editing!)
• Post template with several placeholders to generate unique game descriptions
• Download game files automatically to your server (optional)
• Download game screenshots automatically to your server (optional)
• Grab games files from URLs
• Import games uploaded via FTP
• Edit games before publishing
• Play games before publishing
• Bulk game deletion
• Single Category Publishing
• Allow users to import games
• Force user to register after X game plays
• Works with every WordPress theme
• and a lot of more…

Responsive Theme Included – FunGames

MyArcadePlugin Starter is not just a Plugin! It’s a WordPress Arcade Suite. The Starter edition comes with a beautiful and fully responsive WordPress Arcade Theme.

FunGames the will work perfectly on mobile devices. If a mobile device is detected the theme will display only games that are compatible with mobile devices. Flash and unity games will not be displayed because they are not supported by Android and iOS devices anymore. This will make sure that your mobile visitors will stay on your site.

Check our online demo to see the theme in action: FunGames Demo

Let’s take a look at some of the theme features:

• Fully Responsive – Adopts automatically to every screen resolution
• 4 color schemes (gray, blue, red, pink)
• 5 Index page variations (horizontal, vertical, full, half-width, MiniClip)
• 2 configurable sliders (belt carousel and NivoSlider)
• 10 custom widgets
• Lazy loading for images
• Flexible game order (latest games / random games)
• Game contests promotion box (MyArcadeContest required)
• Hall of fame – Displays top players of your site
• Sortable Game Box – without page reloading (newest, oldest, most discussed, highest rated, most played, alphabetically)
• Full screen feature (Play games in full screen)
• Game Pre-Page (Landing Page)
• Play game page with configurable link structure (e.g. yoursite.com/game/play)
• Game loading progress bar with your own advertisements
• Game embed box to allow visitors to embed games on their sites
• Flexible sidebar position (left, right)
• User login bar
• Google Rich Snippet support
• Google Adsense Ready
• Several well placed advertisement areas
• Custom logo support
• Custom favicon support
• Compatible with BuddyPress
• Compatible with WordPress SEO
• and a lot of more…

MyArcadePlugin Starter Changelog

v4.0.0 - 2022-03-03
  * New - Updated GameDistribution Integration - Use API v2.0
  * Fix - Usage of deprecated FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING constant (PHP 8.1.0)
  * Fix - Softgames integration. Now all games are added to cateogry "Other" because of missing category information in the feed.
  * Fix - Stats aggregator event scheduled too often
  * Fix - Site health loopback issue (cURL error 28)
  * Fix - Game count on the dashboard if custom post type is in use
  * Tweak - PHPCS issues
  * Tweak - Excape dynamic data
  * Tweak - Make sure data are properly prepared for database
  * Tweak - Make static text translatable
  * Tweak - Removed unused code
  * Tweak - Introduce of MyArcadePlugin class and start of refactoring