MyArcadePlugin Pro Documentation

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

MyArcadePlugin Pro v5 User Documentation

http://myarcadeplugin.com v2.00 - 13.09.2011

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

TABLE OF CONTENTS INSTALLATION................................................................................ 3 Overview .............................................................................................. 3

MYGAMELISTCREATOR .................................................................44 Options ...............................................................................................45 Game List For Posts And Pages ..................................................................... 46

Requirements....................................................................................... 4

Styling Examples ................................................................................ 48 Usage Example 1 - Default Style ..................................................................... 48 Usage Example 2 - Miniclip Style .................................................................. 49

WordPress Installation ........................................................................ 5

Theme Integration ............................................................................. 50

MyArcadePlugin Pro Installation ........................................................ 6

MYSCORESPRESENTER ..................................................................51 MyArcadePlugin Pro Upgrade ............................................................. 7 Options ............................................................................................... 52

MYARCADEPLUGIN PRO ................................................................. 8

Template Usage .................................................................................. 53

Activation ............................................................................................. 8

Function Reference.............................................................................54

Panel Overview .................................................................................... 9

Template Coding................................................................................. 57 Display 10 Todays Scores ................................................................................ 57 Display 20 Most Active Players ..................................................................... 57 Display 10 HighScores Of A Game ................................................................ 58

Setting up MyArcadePlugin Pro .........................................................10 Mochi Settings .................................................................................................. 11 HeyZap Settings ............................................................................................... 16 General Settings ............................................................................................... 21 Category Mapping .......................................................................................... 29 Advanced Features ..........................................................................................30 How to use MyArcadePlugin Pro ........................................................ 31 Fetching and publishing ................................................................................. 31 Offset Feeding ..................................................................................................34 Auto Post from Mochi Media .........................................................................39 Function Reference ............................................................................ 40

http://myarcadeplugin.com

FUNGAMES THEME.......................................................................60 Options Panel .................................................................................... 60 Customize Header .......................................................................................... 60 Customize Footer............................................................................................ 62 Advertisement Banner ................................................................................... 64 Top Slider Settings .......................................................................................... 63 Featured Slider Settings ................................................................................. 64 Layout Settings................................................................................................ 60 Navigation Settings............................. Fehler! Textmarke nicht definiert.

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Installation Overview Thank you for purchasing MyArcadePlugin Pro! This document provides instructions for installing and using MyArcadePlugin Pro, MyGameListCreator, MyScoresPresenter and the FunGames theme. Since the instructions are specific to the MyArcadePlugin Suite, they do not cover every WordPress function. For help using WordPress, please see the further reading boxes throughout the text for additional resources. We also recommend using the tutorials at codex.wordpress.org

Further Reading: For more information's on using Plugins and Themes in WordPress, please visit WordPress Codex.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Requirements To run MyArcadePlugin Pro you will need a WordPress ready hosting plan. It should include the following features:  At least PHP 5.3.x  memory limit 64M or more  allow_url_fopen = ON  MySQL version 4.1.2 or greater  Unlimited bandwidth

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

WordPress Installation If you are new to WordPress and you are worried about where to start, you can take a look to this great documentation: http://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start

WordPress is well known for its easy and fast installation. Here you will find a step-by-step tutorial how to install WordPress on your server: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

MyArcadePlugin Pro Installation After you have installed WordPress and downloaded MyArcadePlugin Pro, you will need to activate it. Follow these steps if you have a fresh WordPress installation: 1. Extract the downloaded MyArcadePlugin Pro zip file 2. Use a FTP client (e.g. FileZilla) to access your host server and upload the content of the extracted folder to your WordPress root folder (where wp-config.php is located) 3. Log on the WordPress admin panel and click on "Plugins" 4. Activate MyArcadePlugin Pro

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

MyArcadePlugin Pro Upgrade If you are upgrading from a previous MyArcadePlugin Pro version, follow these steps: 1. Deactivate the old versions a. MyArcadePlugin Pro b. MyScoresPresenter c. MyGameListCreator 2. Extract the downloaded MyArcadePlugin Pro zip file 3. Use a FTP client (e.g. FileZilla) to access your host server and upload the content of the extracted folder to your WordPress root folder (where wp-config.php is located) 4. Log on the WordPress admin panel and click on "Plugins" 5. Activate MyArcadePlugin Pro

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

MyArcadePlugin Pro Activation Once MyArcadePlugin Pro is activated, you will need to enter your personal license key to be able to use all premium features. You have received your personal key with the download link immediately after the purchase. After the license key verification, you will need to setup MyArcadePlugin Pro.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Panel Overview Once installed, you will find a control panel in your WordPress administration bar. There you have access to the most important functions of the MyArcadePlugin Pro. A single click on "MyArcade" will bring you to the "MyArcadePlugin Dashboard" page. There you will get an overview of the Plugin status, settings, news and special offers. "Fetch Games" will bring you to a new page where you can automatically fetch games from many game distributors like Mochi, HeyZap, Kongregate and Playtomic. All fetched games will be saved in your database and you can publish them with just a single click whenever you want. "Publish Games" will to that job for you and publish defined number of fetched games. That will create as many WordPress posts as you want with just a one click. "Import Games" gives you the possibility to import individual games to your brand new arcade site. Actually, MyArcadePlugin Pro supports import of IBPArcade, PHPBB, SWF, DCR, Embed and IFrame games. On the "Manage Games" view you can edit and play games before you publish them. http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Setting up MyArcadePlugin Pro When you click on "Settings", you will get to the MyArcadePlugin Pro administration page. In this chapter, I will guide you through all settings and explain you how to setup your new arcade site.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Mochi Settings Mochi Media is one of the biggest flash game distributors. Mochi has over 30.000 free games in his database that we will use for our arcade site. First, you should create a Mochi user account. An account is needed if you want to earn some extra money from Mochi and if you want to save game scores. If you do not have a Mochi Media account, click here to create one: https://www.mochimedia.com/r/23f4b6b9ad680165 Mochi Media Feed URL This field contains the URL to the Mochi Media's game feed. The default value is: http://www.mochimedia.com/feeds/games/

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Mochi Publisher ID & Publisher Secret Key If you just have registered on Mochi, then you have to change your account type from "Developer" to "Publisher". Therefore, click on "Publishers", accept "Terms of Service" and click on "Send".

Now click on "Settings". The next thing you should do is to verify your Domain. Just follow the instructions on the Mochi's site. To get your Publisher ID scroll down on the settings page to the "Bridge Settings" section. There you will see your Publisher ID and your Publisher Secret Key.

Copy and paste these ID's to the corresponding fields on MyArcade Mochi Settings. http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Feed Games Feed Games gives you the option to setup how many games should be fetched every time you click on "Fetch Games" and start fetching. If you want to feed all games that Mochi Media offers, then leave this field blank but keep in mind that this can take a while and that your server can overload. This is not recommended!! To avoid server overloads we would suggest you to use values between 100 and 1000.

Filter by Tag You may choose this option to include games that include or exclude a tag. To exclude a tag you must preface it with a minus sign (-).  Example 1: '-zh-cn' will exclude all Chinese games  Example 2: '-snow' will exclude all Game that are tagged to snow  Example 3: 'snow' will include only games tagged to snow. Enter tags without quotes ( ' )! http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Mochi Auto Game Feeding (Cron) This option allows you to turn your games site into an autoblog. If this option is checked, MyArcadePlugin Pro will fetch Mochi games automatically. Go to "General Settings" to select a fetch (cron) interval. Special Categories Mochi Media provides some special game categories e.g. Premium Games, Featured Games… Games that will bring you money are tagged to Coin Enabled and games that are able to save user scores are tagged to Leaderboard Games.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Enable Global Mochi Scores To achieve more game plays many Mochi games are able to save user scores. The scores can be saved locally at your site and on Mochi's server. With this option, you can enable the score submitting to Mochi Media and this option will enable a global Leaderboard Widget that you can drop into your sidebar. We would recommend enabling this setting. That could bring you more visitors and keep the visitors on your site.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

HeyZap Settings HeyZap is another big flash game distributor. Compared with Mochi Media, HeyZap does not offer score submitting but they have many social and multiplayer games. To be able to fetch HeyZap games a user account is needed. Click on the following link and sign up on HeyZap: http://heyzap.com/publishers/ HeyZap Feed URL This field contains the URL to the HeyZap's games feed. The default value is: http://www.heyzap.com/publisher_api/v2/ Edit this entry only when HeyZap feed url has been changed otherwise MyArcadePlugin will not work properly. Site Key & Secret Key To be able to fetch more than 10 games at once you have to enter valid site and secret key. Feed Games Feed Games gives you the option to setup how many games should be fetched when you click on "Fetch Games" and start fetching of HeyZap games. HeyZap allows you to use values between 1 and 200. http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Game Variants HeyZap offers two kinds of games that you can add to your site: SWF and Embed games. The most of the social and multiplayer games are "Embed-Games". If you want to fetch all HeyZap games then you need to select "SWF + Embed Games". HeyZap Auto Game Feeding (Cron) This option allows you to turn your games site into an autoblog. If this option is checked, MyArcadePlugin Pro will fetch HeyZap games automatically. Go to "General Settings" to select a fetch (cron) interval.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Playtomic Settings Like Mochi and HeyZap, Playtomic offers you also a lot of quality games for your site. http://playtomic.com Playtomic Feed URL This field contains the URL to the HeyZap's games feed. The default value is: http://playtomic.com/games/feed/mochi Edit this entry only when Playtomic feed url has been changed otherwise MyArcadePlugin will not work properly. Languages Here you can select the languages what the games should have. Only game tagged to the selected languages will be inserted into your games database. Audience Playtomic offers you to filter games by audience: Everyone, Teens and Mature. If you want to fetch all games then uncheck all the options.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Advertisement In this drop down you can select what advertisements the games should have included. Every selection except "Any" will limit the number of games that you will get from Playtomic. Thereby, I would recommend you to choose "Any" for this setting. Leaderboards On this setting you can limit the leaderboard type of games that should be fetched. MyArcadePlugin support Mochi Scores and it is recommended to select "Mochi Media" if you want to save scores on your site. Every selection except "Any" will limit the number of games that you will get from Playtomic. Microtransactions Playtomic doesn't provide a description of this setting. Minimum Rating Playtomic calculates an engagement rating for all games which is a score out of 100 for how fun the game is according to actual player data. A rating of 90 or more is an excellent game but you will get fewer games. 70 or more is a great game. 50 or more is a good game. Below 50 many not be very good. http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Fetch Games How many Playtomic games should be fetched at once. Leave blank if you want to fetch all games (not recommended). This option only affects the manual game fetching. It is recommended to use values between 100 and 1000 to avoid server overload.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Kongregate Settings Kongregate provides a sponsored games XML feed that you can add to your site. The feed is updated regularly. http://www.kongregate.com/ Kongregate Feed URL This field contains the URL to the HeyZap's games feed. The default value is: http://www.kongregate.com/games_for_your_site.xml Edit this entry only when HeyZap feed url has been changed otherwise MyArcadePlugin will not work properly.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

General Settings In this chapter, the global settings for MyArcadePlugin Pro are described. Save User Scores This option enables the score submitting to your site. If the checkbox is checked, MyArcadePlugin Pro will save submitted user scores. Actually, MyArcadePlugin Pro is able to save following score types:  Mochi Media Scores (Publisher ID and Publisher Secret Key needed)  IBPArcade Scores

Save Only Highscores Activate this option if you want to save only the highest score that a user has achieved per game. That means that only one score per game and per user will be saved. If the option is deactivated, all submitted scores will be saved (default value). http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Publish Games A number entered in this field defines how many games should be published at once when you click on "Add Games To Blog". Post Status Here you can select how new game posts should be added to your blog.  "Publish" – This option will publish the game posts immediately.  "Draft" – This option will only add the game posts to your blog. They will not be published. Thereby, you will be able to edit or review each post before you publish it.  "Scheduled" – will publish games in a time interval, in minutes. For example, if you want to publish every hour one game then enter 60 into the field "Schedule Time".

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Download Thumbnails, Games & Screenshots These options allow you to download game files, thumbnails or screenshots to your server. That will speed up the loading of your site and your site will be independent of the game distributor. In the other hand, enabling these options will increase your disc usage and your traffic. When the download options are disabled, MyArcadePlugin will only link to the game files. Make sure that the following directories are writeable (chmod 777):  wp-content/games  wp-content/thumbs

Delete Game Files This option will delete downloaded game files when you delete a game post from your blog. That will free up your disc usage.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Auto Game Feeding (Cron) Select a time interval, that defines how often new games should be fetched. This option takes only affect when "Mochi Auto Game Feeding" or "HeyZap Auto Game Feeding" are enabled. The fetching will trigger when someone visits your site, if the scheduled time has passed. On each trigger MyArcadePlugin Pro will get the latest game. That means: one game per trigger. Game Categories To Feed At this section you see all the categories that game distributors (Mochi Media and HeyZap) currently offer. Select categories from which the games should be fetched. Create Categories If you start a fresh site, you can let MyArcadePlugin Pro to create game categories for you. Just check this option and the selected categories from "Game Categories To Feed" will be created automatically. Parent Category This option will create all selected game categories as subcategories in the selected parent category. This option is useful if you have a mixed blog and not only a pure arcade portal.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Use Only The First Category Many Mochi Media and HeyZap games are tagged to more than one category. Activate this option to avoid game publishing in more than one category. When this option is checked, MyArcadePlugin Pro will only use the first category of a game! Publish In A Single Category This option will publish all games only in the selected category. This option is useful if you have a mixed blog and not only a pure arcade site. Max. Game Width Enter here the maximum allowed game width in pixels. If a value is set, MyArcadePlugin Pro will automatically resize bigger games to the given width. This option will prevent your theme from demolition trough games that are too wide. Embed Flash Code Select one of available option when MyArcadePlugin Pro should automatically embed the flash code in your posts. This option is very useful if you are using a default WordPress theme and not a special arcade theme e.g. FunGames.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Game Post Template With this option, you are able to give your posts an individual look that will be different to other arcade sites. This text area allows you the usage of HTML and special MyArcadePlugin Pro placeholders to style the game post. This feature will work for all standard WordPress themes except the FunGames theme. Activating this option will help you generating unique content (game posts) automatically. Available Placeholders:  %TITLE% - Shows the game title  %TAGS% - Shows all game tags, comma separated (without links)  %THUMB% - Shows a game thumbnail  %DESCRIPTION% - Shows a game description  %INSCTRUCTIONS% - Shows game instructions Code Example: %THUMB% %DESCRIPTION% %INSTRUCTIONS% %TITLE% Review, %TITLE% Cheats, %TITLE% Walkthrough!

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Allow Users To Post Games Activate this if you want to give access to your users to import games. WordPress supports the following user roles: Contributor, Author and Editor.  Games added by Contributors will be saved as draft  Authors and Editors will be able to publish games. Guest Plays This option allows you to force user to register after a defined number of game plays. Set, how many games a guest can play before he needs to register. Set to 0 to deactivate the game play check. Guest Message In this text area you can define a message that a guest will see after X game plays. HTML code is allowed in this field. Suggestion: Enter a link to your registration page, too. Post Type Select a post type you want to use with MyArcadePlugin. If you want to use a custom post type then you will need to create it before you can make a selection. The easiest way to create a custom post type is to use a plugin like 'Custom Post Type UI'. http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Category Mapping Map Mochi, HeyZap, Playtomic and Kongegrate categories to your own category names. That allows you to publish games in translated or summarized categories instead of using the predefined category names from game distributors.

The category mapping is implemented with the modern AJAX technology. So you don't need to click the "Save Settings" button. The changes in this section are saved automatically.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Advanced Features

Delete All Feeded Games If you click on this button, all fetched games will be deleted. The published posts will not be touched. After this, the score submitting of published games will stop to work! Remove Games Marked as 'deleted' This button will remove all games marked as 'deleted' from your games database. Delete Blank / Zero Scores Clean up the scores table. This will delete all zero and empty scores in your database. Delete All Scores All scores will be removed from your database

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

How to use MyArcadePlugin Pro When you have adjusted the settings, you can start to populate your new arcade site with flash games. MyArcadePlugin Pro offers you several options to do that. You can fetch Mochi Media, HeyZap, Playtomic and Kongregate games or you can import individual games.

Fetching and publishing The easiest way to add a big number of games is to use integrated "Game Fetching" features. A single click on "Fetch Games" will bring you to a new page where you can select a game distributor and populate your games database with new games. While fetching MyArcadePlugin will download the game feed and add many games to your database.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

After the game fetching is run, you will get an output like this:

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

At this point, the games are added to your database and are not visible to your visitors. Now you have two options to publish the fetched games: Manual Publishing and Automated Publishing Automated Publishing A single click on "Publish Games" is sufficient to publish a defined number of games on your site. The number of games can be adjusted under "General Settings"  "Publish Games". With that feature, you are able to populate your new site with thousands of games in just a few minutes. Manual Publishing The second method to publish games on your site is to use the manual publishing. After the game fetching, you will get a game box for each fetched game with some buttons. There you can preview each game, edit game details like description, instructions, tags or categories. A single click on "Publish" will publish a single game on your site. http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Offset Game Fetching On the "Fetch Games" page you have two methods to get games from game distributors: Lates Games and Use Offset. Latest games fetching will get the last X games from the game distributor but if you want to fetch older games, you will need to use the Offset method. Offset fetching will help you to fetch older games without overload your server. Thereby, MyArcadePlugin Pro will download the given number of games from the given offset.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Mochi offers over 30.000 games. If you leave blank the setting "Feed Games" under "Mochi Settings", MyArcadePlugin Pro will fetch all available games. That means that a huge feed has to be downloaded and encoded. That will cause an overload of most web servers. To void this overload you should use offset feeding like this:

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Select "Use Offset" and enter 1.000 at "Fetch" and 2.000 for offset. When you now click on "Fetch Games", MyArcadePlugin will fetch 1.000 games started from the 2.00oth game.

Manual Import With MyArcadePlugin you are also able to import individual games such IBPArcade, PHPBB, SWF, DCR, EMBED or IFRAME games. To add such a game to your site click on "Import Games". First select an import method:

After selecting the desired import method the form below the selection will change and show you all needed fields that needs to be filled out for the selected import. http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

For uploading new game files, thumbnails and screenshot MyArcadePlugin offers you two methods. At the one hand you can upload files from your local hard drive and on the other hand you are able to grab files from a given url.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

To upload a file from local hard drive, click on "Browse", select a file and click on "Start Upload". To grab a file from a given url, enter the url and click on "Start Upload". You should upload all needed files before you do anything else on the import form because MyArcadePlugin is able to fill the form automatically on some games for you. MyArcadePlugin will also try to detect the game dimensions and insert them into the form.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Auto Post from Mochi Media MyArcadePlugin Pro allows you to post games directly from Mochi Media's website to your arcade blog when pressing the button "Post game to my site".

To be able to use this feature you have to setup your Mochi Media account. Login to your Mochi Media account, click on "Settings" and scroll down to "Auto Post Settings". Select "Custom built script" on "Auto Post Method" and enter the following URL to "Auto Post URL": http://{YOUR URL}/wp-content/plugins/myarcadeplugin/modules/mochi_autopost.php

Replace {YOUR URL} with your own site URL

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

CubePoints Integration MyArcadePlugin has a built in CubePoints integration. CubePoints is a point management system for WordPress. Users can earn points by playing games, submitting scores and getting highscores or even by logging in on your site. The achieved points are displayed with widgets and user can donate their points to other user. For more information about CubePoints please visit: http://cubepoints.com After activating CubePoints you will need to setup the plugin before use. Click on CubePoints -> Configure and set how many points user should get for several actions. MyArcadePlugin will handle the rest for you!

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Function Reference MyArcadePlugin Pro will work with every standard WordPress theme but you can also use several useful functions to create a nice looking site with special features. In this chapter, you will find all available functions that you can use in your themes. Use these functions if you use a standard WordPress theme or if you want to create your own individual theme. MyArcadePlugin uses WordPress custom fields to saves additional game information's. To display these information's you can use the following functions within the WordPress loop: Print Game Description

Print Game Instructions

Get the Game Thumbnail URL

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Get the Game Screenshot 1 URL

Get the Game Screenshot 2 URL

Get the Game Screenshot 3 URL

Get the Game Screenshot 4 URL

Embed flash code To show a playable game, you can use the function get_game inside the WordPress loop:

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Embed Leaderboard Bridge If you want to save user scores, you have to include the Mochi Media Leaderboard Bridge into your theme. Put this code above the get_game function call:

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

MyGameListCreator To save your server performance MyGameListCreator will create game list that is saved in a static file. A list with a big number of games is a great SEO-Method to get more visitors. This method is well known and Miniclip is using it, too. The game list will be refreshed when you publish, edit or delete a game post. MyGameListCreator is able to create to kinds of static game lists: "Game List For Posts And Pages" and "Standard Game List". MyGameListCreator will create two files located in the root folder of your WordPress installation (where wp-config.php) is located:  gamelist.php  gamepostlist.php

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Options  Game List Title - Customize the name of your list. You can also use html code to adapt the style to your theme.  Limit Showed Games - Set "-1" (without quotes) to create a list with all published games. Otherwise, enter an integer.  Limit Game Names - Set how many chars of a game name should be shown. Leave blank to show the entire name.  Begin Wrap - Customize the start html code to adapt to your theme, i.e. "". This code will be placed above the game list.  End Wrap - This is the global end wrap for the game list, i.e. "".  Begin List Wrap - Put here your list begin wrap, i.e. "".  End List Wrap - Put here your list end wrap, i.e. "".  Begin Item Wrap - Put here your begin wrap for a game in the list, i.e "".  End Item Wrap - Put here your end wrap for a game in the list, i.e "".  Games Categories - Create a list containing only games from selected categories. If you wish to have games from each category included in the list, please select all categories.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

 Create List With Leading Letters - Check this option if you want to create an alphabetically ordered list with leading letters, like on Miniclip. If this option is not checked "default" list will be created where the games are ordered by their publish date.  Rows For Lists With Leading Letters - Enter the number of rows that should be created.  Auto Create Game List - Check this option if you want to create automatically the game list.

Game List For Posts And Pages MyGameListCreator allows you to use a short code in your posts or pages to embed a static game list. By clicking on "Precompile A Game List For Posts/Pages" a new list will be created. To embed the precompiled game list in your posts add the following shortcode as the content of a page or post: [mygamelist]

The game list will contain all games of selected categories. This feature can be very useful if you have a mixed website and not only a pure arcade portal.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Customize the HTML output over the"Post Game List Template". Use HTML code and available placeholders to create unique game lists. Available Placeholders  %TITLE% - Shows the name of a game  %TITLE_WITH_LINK% - Game name with a link to the game post  %THUMBNAIL% - Shows the thumbnail of a game  %THUMBNAIL_WITH_LINK% - Shows a clickable thumbnail  %DESCRIPTION% - Prints the game description  %INSTRUCTION% - Prints the game instructions Default Template Code %TITLE_WITH_LINK% %THUMBNAIL_WITH_LINK% %DESCRIPTION%

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Styling Examples In this chapter, you will see two simple styling examples:  Default Style  Miniclip Style However, with MyGameListCreator you can also create your own unique looking game list using the available options and CSS-Code.

Usage Example 1 - Default Style If you want to create an unordered list with all available games on your blog than you can use the following settings:  Begin Warp:



 End Wrap:



 Begin List Wrap:  End List Wrap:



 Begin Item Wrap:  End Item Wrap:



http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Your created list will look like this in HTML: Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5

Usage Example 2 - Miniclip Style If you want to create a game list like on Miniclip.com with leading letters then you can use the following settings:  Limit Game Name:

16

 Begin Warp:



 End Wrap:



 Begin List Wrap:



 End List Wrap:



 Begin Item Wrap:



http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

 End Item Wrap:



 Rows For Lists With Leading Letters

5

Theme Integration To display the created game list (gamelist.php) in your theme you have to put this line of code on the desired place in your theme:

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

MyScoresPresenter MyScoresPresenter will show player and game scores on your site. The output code for scores can easily be configured with templates over the WordPress backend. MyScoresPresenter includes several Widgets that you can add to your site. Go to “Appearance”  “Widget” and drop the desired Widgets into the sidebars. With the current version of MyScoresPresenter, you can show the following scores:  Most Active Players  Latest Scores  Today's Scores  Single Game Scores - Shows scores of a single game  MyArcadePlugin Leaderboard - Shows best players on your site

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Options MyScoresPresenter offers you the possibility to customize the score output using templates without touching the code. In this chapter, you will get an overview of available templates and styling examples. The templates work with special placeholders. The current version of MyScoresPresenter offers your following placeholders:  %USERNAME% - Display the name of an user  %SCORE% - Display the score of a game  %GAMENAME% - Display the name of a game (without link)  %GAME% - Display the game name with the game link  %GAMEPLAYS% - Display the game plays of an user  %GAMEIMAGEURL% - Gets the thumbnail url of a game  %HIGHSCORE% - Display how many highscore a user has achieved  %DATE% - Display the date of the score

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Template Usage The output code of MyScoresPresenter will always be an unordered list. With templates, you can style the output of the list items. Here is an example how to style “Latest Scores”. Template code: %USERNAME% on %GAME%

The template code will generate following HTML code: Daniel on Super Mario Flasher on Mario Kart Dancer on Flowers ... Player on Unreal

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Function Reference You build your own themes and you want to integrate score boxes to your theme, then you can use following functions:

Todays Scores myscore_get_todays_scores($limit)

Latest Scores myscore_get_latest_scores($limit)

Most Active Users myscore_get_most_active_users($imit)

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Highscores Of A Single Game myscore_get_game_scores($limit)

Global Mochi Media Scores Of A Single Game myscore_get_global_game_scores()

Latest Scores Of An User (e.g. On The Profile Site) myscore_show_users_scores($user_id, $limit)

Leaderboard Check Returns "true" when the displayed game has Leaderboard enabled. This function can only be used inside the WordPress-Loop. myscore_check_leaderboard()

Leaderboard Bridge

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Mochi Media games submit their scores over a "Leaderboard Bridge". This bridge has to be added to your theme to be able to receive game scores. You can embed the Leaderboard Bridge with this function call:

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Template Coding In this chapter, you will see some code examples that you can use in your themes.

Display 10 Todays Scores To display today’s scores in your sitebar, you can use the following code: Todays Scores

Display 20 Most Active Players Top Players

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic



Display 10 HighScores Of A Game Note: This function needs a new global variable called "$mypostid" to be able to show scores of a single game. For that, you have to add a single line of code after the "get_game" function call (single.php). Here is an example:

Now you are able to show latest scores of a game. You can use this example for your sidebar: Best Players

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic



http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

FunGames Theme FunGames Theme is a premium Arcade Theme for WordPress. It is fully compatible to Mingle and BuddyPress. The theme has BuddyPress templates integrated! Using MyArcadePlugin Pro and the FunGames theme, you will generate a two-way income. By publishing Mochi Media games, you will be paid my Mochi Media. On the other hand, you can integrate Adsense Ads or other banners to increase your earnings.

Options Panel The theme options panel can be found at Appearance -> Theme Options. Here you will get an overview about all available settings.

Recommended Plugin Status Here you can see a list of recommended plugins, so all theme functions will work properly. A 'X' marks a plugin which is not installed, yet.

Layout Settings This section customizes the look of the theme.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Blog Category Select a category that should be used as a regular WordPress blog (if needed). Main Color Scheme Select a color scheme that should be used. Sidebar Position Select a sidebar position - left or right. Games per Box Set the number of games that should be shown in each category box on the front page. Box order Select how the category boxes should be shown on the front page: Vertical or Horizontal. Hide Category Boxes Select categories which should be excluded from the front page. Game Embed Box Enable or disable the game embed box - "Embed this game on your site..." Game Order Select how games should be ordered on the front page. Info: Random order may slow down your site!

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Customize Header Here you can specify all header settings for your template. Custom Favicon Enter the url of your own custom favicon. Custom Logo Enter here the URL to your logo. Maximum dimensions are 460x80px. Site Keywords If you do not use a SEO-Plugin, you can use this field to enter your Meta keywords. Pick some keywords that will describe your website separated by a coma (,). This is a meta-tag within the HEAD tags. Site Description A small description of your site for the meta-tag. Custom Header Code In this section, you can enter custom Meta or JavaScript codes. (e.g.: Mochi Verification)

Customize Footer Here you can specify all footer settings for your template. Custom Footer Code This section allows you to add a custom HTML or JavaScript code ( e.g.: Google Analytics). http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

MyArcadePlugin Affiliate Link Enter here your MyArcadePlugin affiliate link to promote MyArcadePlugin and to earn extra money! If you do not have an affiliate account, please create one here: http://myarcadeplugin.com/affiliate-program/ Affiliate Link Text This text will describe your affiliate link. The default text is MyArcadePlugin - Arcade Solution

Top Slider Settings This section customizes the top slider type and the number of sliding panels. Slider Type Select a slider that should be shown on the front page: Default Slider or NivoSlider. Top Slider category Select a category that should be displayed on the top slider. Auto Scroll Enable or disable the auto scroll feature. Game Order Select how games should be ordered on the slider. Info: Random order may slow down your site!

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Featured Slider Settings This section customizes the featured slider in the sidebar. Number of featured games Set a number of games that should be shown on the featured slider. The games are ordered randomly.

Advertisement Banner This section allows you to manage your Adsense codes and other banner. Header Banner Put the code for a 468x60px banner here. This will appear on your header on each site. Content Banner Put the code for a 300x250px banner here. This banner will appear on each game site (single page) near the game description. Game Preloader Banner Put the code for the game preloading section. It's recommended to use a 336x280px banner here. Over Game Banner Put the code for a 728x90px banner here. This banner will appear on each game site (single page) above the playable game.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic

Progress Bar This section customizes the settings of the single game site.

http://myarcadeplugin.com

Copyright by Daniel Bakovic