You must migrating hard coded “Layout” to new Menu & Widget after updated to CloudArcade v1.3.0 It will worth the effort, menu and widget is stored on database, so you can switching or changing theme without loosing your navigation, footer, sidebar.etc First step, download “backup” file for v1.2.9 (zip), each update attempt, system will backup […]
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(Plugin) Auto Publish
What is “Auto Publish” plugin and what it’s used for ? “Auto Publish” can automatically add games at time interval, similar to “Cron-job” or very similar to WordPress cron. This plugin will check for each selected game distributors 3 times a day, if there are a new games you don’t have, then system will add […]
CloudArcade Setup – Prepare your Arcade site
On this article, we’re going to setup newly installed CloudArcade site to make it look like the demo site. After CMS file is extracted or unpacked, you will be redirected to installation page Fill the fields with your database details, then click “submit” button If database already connected, then you need to create your admin […]
Create “Load More” games on Dark Grid theme
This is the “Dark Grid” theme version of this tutorial, in the original tutorial, it’s uses “Default” theme as sample. We will create a “Load More” games button for new games in the homepage. Let’s get started Open “Theme Editor” plugin, if you don’t have it, you can install it on “Manage Plugins” page, then […]
How to use “Custom Fields” and what can it do ?
Custom Fields is introduced on CloudArcade v1.2.9, it’s an official plugin and not included by default, so you need to install it. With Custom Fields, there’s a lot you can do with it, especially to extend CloudArcade features to fit your needs. Here is a tutorials how to use it Category icons On default theme, […]
Create “Load More” games with Custom Page
With “Load more” games button, player or visitor can expand a group of games easily. Let’s get started how to create it. this tutorial require a coding. Make sure you’re using CloudArcade v1.2.9 or newer If you’re not familiar with Custom Page, read this tutorial First step, open your active theme folder, then create a […]
Create a Leaderboard / Scoreboard page with Custom Page
First, open your active theme folder. In this tutorial I will use the default theme “/content/themes/default/”. Create a php file and name it “page-leaderboard.php”, you can replace “leaderboard” with another page name you want, ex: “page-top-palyers.php”, you can access it with “yout-domain.com/top-players”. Next, put php code below inside “page-leaderboard.php” file Explain: We include theme functions, […]
Create a custom page
What is Custom Page ? what the difference with regular page ? basically regular page is just a post with “page” identifier. With “Custom page” you have a full control from the first HTML tag until the end of the page, PHP code is allowed here, also you can use existing CloudArcade functions. Let’s get […]
Pretty URL on Nginx server
If you’re using Apache webserver, you don’t need to do some server configuration since Apache webserver is using .htaccess for URL rewrite, and .htaccess file is already included. For Nginx users, you need to modify your Nginx configuration to be able to use Pretty URL feature. Nginx config located at “/etc/nginx” folder or “/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default.conf”. Nginx […]
