Changelog

v1.9.7

Fix

• Fix can't edit a game
• Fix v195 update failure

v1.9.6

Fix

• Fix can't add games

v1.9.5

New

• Custom Game Types
  Allow Emulator and Custom HTML game integration with CloudArcade. More info.
• Flash Emulator plugin
  Add Flash games without Adobe Flash Player. A working example of Custom Game Types usage. More info.
• admin-hook.php (Plugin file)
  Extend admin panel functionality through plugin code.

Changes

• Basic improvements

v1.9.4

Changes

• Improve plugin update notification

Fix

• Fix plugin update code

v1.9.3

Fix

• Fix CMS installation

v1.9.2

New

• Upload thumbanils for game upload and remote add
  You can upload game thumbanils for game upload and remote add (url) method, thumb_1 and thumb_2 in game zip no longer required with upload thumbs.
• Widget + (plus) button
  You can insert widget without drag and drop the widget to the placement.
• "URL Link" widget
  For non coder, this widget will be useful to add url link or image link without white html code.
• Sort option for Top Games in the Dashboard
• Schema Markup plugin
• Meta Tags plugin
• New global functions : set_theme_pref(), set_plugin_pref()

Changes

• Improve Plugin uploader
  Better security and upload method.
• Improve Sitemap output structure
• "tables.sql" from utf8_general_ci to utf8mb4_unicode_ci for better chars support
  Only applied for new install.

Fix

• Fix bugs
• Fix Paragraph widget line issue

v1.9.1

Fix

• Fix bugs
• Improve security

v1.9.0

Fix

• Fix Sitemap generator

v1.8.9

New

• Fetch Single Game Plugin
  Now you can add a specific game from GameDistribution by slug.
• Implement new GamePix API

Changes

• Better thumbnail image quaily
  Imported thumbnails now have much better quality.
• GamePix SID plugin now using DB to store value.

Fix

• Fix DB tables for new installation
• Fix DB error if password contain $ char

v1.8.8

New

• Sitemap Plugin
  Sitemap now separated from settings, and you need Sitemap plugin to generate sitemap.
• Auto sitemap
  Auto sitemap now working.
• Collection now have dedicated page
  more info.

Changes

• Database changes
• Add error alert if JSON Importer structure is not valid
• Implement GameDistribution url parameter for Remote Add games from Gamedistribution

Fix

• Fix Google Login not working
• Fix Admin > Layout menus CSS issue

v1.8.7

New

• Query Cache Plugin
  Now you can cache mysql database output with Redis, Memcache or Memcached to speed up your page load, more info.

Changes

• Navigation menu now can be translated
• Add original thumb_1 & thumb_2 source url data (from fetch games)
• Theme Options now separated from Layout
• Implement CSRF in registration page

Fix

• Fix homepage canonical have double slash
• Fix related games amount not consistent

v1.8.6

New

• Option disable iconv()
  If you got iconv() related error when adding new game, activate this at Settings > Other.
• Option allow slug translation
  If you want to translate category and tag slug, activate this at Settings > Other.

Fix

• Fix tag pagination not work
• Fix translated tag slug return 404

v1.8.5

Fix

• Fix tag bug

v1.8.4

Changes

• Allow category and tag slug translation
  More info

Fix

• Fix translations and localization small issue

v1.8.3

Fix

• Fix translations and localization issue

v1.8.2

New

• Free HTML5 Games (Game Bundle)
  Now, CloudArcade is including free HTML5 games. More info
• Page, add option to enable or disable nl2br.

Changes

• JSON localization file is now moved to root "locales" folder.
  In the previous version, a theme/visitor translation can't be used in another theme, now a single translation file can be used across theme, you also need to update Localization plugin to latest version.
• Non exist post and post pagination will go to 404 page.
• Theme can no longger use FontAwesome, previously the icon set must be FontAwesome.
• Database changes.

Fix

• Fix doubled gameplay count
• Now user can use "-" dash in their username.
• Fix comment error

v1.8.1

Changes

• Increase category name to 30 chars.
• Allow Category title translation (Require theme update)
• Allow Tag title translation (Require theme update)

Fix

• Fix canonical link issue.
• Fix canonical link for post.

v1.8.0

New

• Built-in fuctions (theme-functions.php)
  is_home(), is_game(), is_search(), is_page(), is_post(), is_tag(), is_category(), home_url().

Changes

• Google account register use "-" than "_" for spacing.
• Allow multilevel dropdown (Theme navbar dropdown)
• Add pagination for page list
• "Paragraph" widget now have "align" option.
• Non exist page number will go to 404 instead of show empty list
• JS API changes

Fix

• Fix bugs.

v1.7.9

Fix

• Fix installation issue on HTTPS.

v1.7.8

New

• CloudArcade WP
  Integrate WordPress site with CloudArcade. Click here for more info.

Changes

• Improve backup script

Fix

• Fix category priority

v1.7.7

Changes

• Increase sitemap max game url to 10000

Fix

• Fix canonical for multilingual in homepage
• Fix hide PC games on mobile

v1.7.6

New

• Implement Extra Fileds on Tag
  Read here for more info.
• Option hide PC games on mobile. Settings > Other
• Option disable EN language. Settings > Other
• Option allow splash sceen on remote games. Settings > Other
• Implement Hreflang / Alternate link
  Used for multilingual site with "Lang code in url" activated, automatically applied for all latest themes.

Changes

• Database changes
• Increase sitemap max game url to 8000
• Improve captcha code
• Canonical link also implemented on homepage. Custom canonical function is available, the_custom_canonical_link().

Fix

• Fix game draft not working

v1.7.5

Fix

• Fix "Auto Publish" black image if use WEBP

v1.7.4

Fix

• Fix purchase code bug

v1.7.3

Fix

• Fix sitemap bug

v1.7.2

Fix

• Fix sitemap bug
• Fix fetch games bug

v1.7.1

New

• [Plugin] Contact Form
  Read here for more info.
• [Plugin] Cookie Consent
• Shortcode feature
• "Y8" game distributor (Fetch Games Extended)
• "Gameflare" game distributor (Fetch Games Extended)

Changes

• Multilingual url now included in separated sitemap: sitemap-en.xml, sitemap-id.xml, sitemap-sg.xml
• Invalid trailing slash redirect 301.
• Implement "Extra Fields" on Posts
• Implement "lastmod" sitemap
• Reduce thumbnail name length
• Improve thumbnail quality
• Improve cron code

Fix

• Fix bugs

v1.7.0

Fix

• Fix widget admin bug from last version
• Fix meta descripton filtering
• Update cron functions

v1.6.9

New

• Filters
  Read here for more info.
• "is_mobile" Game column
  Used to define if the game is mobile compatible or not. This will be used in the future update.
• "last_modified" Game column
• Option, Sanitize HTML on Pages
  Now you can disable HTML sanitation on page content and allow all HTML tag on page content. Settings > Other > Sanitize HTML on Pages.
• is_mobile_device()
  Backend PHP code to check if current visitor device is mobile or not.

Changes

• Database changes
• Improved backup script, only backup Cloudarcade system folders.
• Now you can translate site title, site description and site meta description. More info
• Update GameDistribution category list.

v1.6.8

Fix

• Fix game url limited to 100 chars

v1.6.7

New

• Extra Fields (Plugin)
  Read here for more info.
• Hooks
  Read here for more info.
• Option, set email as a madatory field in registrartion page.

Changes

• Database changes
• 404 set no-index

Fix

• Fix post title
• Comment time not precise
• Fix robots txt

v1.6.6

Fix

• Fix game slug/url multiple hypens
• Fix can't change password
• Return invalid url to 404
• Tag 'space' to '-'

v1.6.5

New

• Translations (Plugin)
  Now you can translate game title, game description, categories, posts and pages content. More info
• New Comment System
  Read here for more info.
• Customize page title
  Read here for more info.

Changes

• Search url with hypens
  Search url now using hypens, from "game%20title" become "game-title", better for SEO and server compatibility, applied on themes.
• Database changes

Fix

• Redirect old path to custom path url (301)
• Fix edit user profile

v1.6.4

New

• theme-functions.php, global function set for theme code.
• Canonical link function
• RTL option

Changes

Fix

• Fix PHP 8.2+ HTMLPurifier code deprecation
• Set full/game to no-index
• Other bug fixes

v1.6.3

New

Changes

Fix

• Fix "SETTINGS" compatibility issues from previous version.

v1.6.2

New

• Install theme with purchase code.

Changes

• Database changes
• Remove database FOREIGN KEY and switch to manual method for better compatibility.
• Better settings structure

Fix

• Fix bugs

v1.6.1

New

• "Playsaurus" game distributor
• Add option to Hide a category

Changes

• Unpublished/Draft games can't be accessed by guest/player
• Update Gamedistribution section list

Fix

• Fix category case sensitive

v1.6.0

New

Changes

Fix

• Fix "$url_params" undefined on admin.php

v1.5.9

New

Changes

Fix

• Set "use_www" to "false"

v1.5.8

New

Changes

Fix

• Fix bug old translation not work

v1.5.7

New

• Tags
  The game tag feature has now been implemented.
• Mailer (Plugin)
  With Mailer, you can send email from the CMS using your own email account, Mailer will come with another plugin in the future, like Forgot Password, Contact Form and Broadcast Messages.
• WWW Option
  Now you can add "www" to all permalink. Settings > Advanced > Use WWW
• Multi-Language in URL
  Now you can change site language by add language ID after domain, example: domain.com/en/game/ or domain.com/cn . Settings > Other > Language Code In URL

Changes

• Database changes

Fix

• Fix bugs

v1.5.6

New

• Redesigned admin dashboard
• Category Priority
  Now you can sort the order of category list by change priority value. Admin > Categories > Edit Category
• Game listing
  Now you can change the number of games you want to shown on search and category page. Admin > Settings > Listing

Changes

• Database changes
• Migrating from Bootstrap 4 to Bootstrap 5 (Admin panel)
• Remove MDBootstrap
• No longger rely on "allow_url_fopen" for better security and compatibility
• Add "Log" for Auto Publish plugin
• Remove "tables.sql" after install
• Fonts used is stored locally
• Allow gif logo

Fix

• Fix bugs

v1.5.5

New

Changes

Fix

• Fix "SUB FOLDER" compatibility issue from v1.5.4
• Fix widgets not loaded form v1.5.4

v1.5.4

New

• Game Draft
  Now you can add "unpublished" game or set a game to "draft" to be published later.
• Trailing Slash
  Now you can disable trailing slash (/) at the end of url. "Settings > Other".

Changes

• Database changes
• sitemap.xml game links now limited to 5000 (separated by files in future update)
• Prevent user profile page crawled by search engine.
• Improved backup script.
• Extra parameters (not supported parameters) will show 404 page.
• api.js, Ads can be called after 2min or more of last ad shown.
• Add robots.txt after generating sitemap (if not exist).

Fix

• Bug fixes.

v1.5.3

New

• Favorite games
• Banner Ad widget

Changes

• Now you can styling login & register page with theme "style.css"
• In-game banner ads responsive
• Outdated/deprecated FILTER_VALIDATE replaced with regex
• Database changes

Fix

• Remove unsuported characters in game title, description and instructions.

v1.5.2

New

Changes

• Update jQuery to latest version (v3.6.2)

Fix

• Failed login redirect to admin login
• Ignore WEBP importing
• URL Array
• URL Redirect

v1.5.1

New

Changes

Fix

• Fix bug

v1.5.0

New

( Plugin ) Gallery. Manage image files (Not thumbnails)

Changes

• Increase slug length
• Now you can upload image in post editor (Posts plugin)

Fix

• Fix database encoding

v1.4.9

New

Changes

Add Bootstrap 5 navbar support for render_nav_menu()

Fix

• Remove emoji filter (Causing missing string)

v1.4.8

New

Changes

Now, theme update showing affected files.

Fix

• Fix leaderboard not shown.

v1.4.7

New

Changes

Fix

• Fix plugin-repo not work if no plugins installed.

v1.4.6

New

Changes

• Improved plugin repository
• Category Filter (Plugin) now work with Auto Publish (Plugin)
• Add WEBP support for Auto Publish (Plugin)

Fix

• Fix bugs

v1.4.5

New

• Splash Screen
  Now you can show splah screen for self-uploaded games like Gamedistribution does, also you can show an advertisement on "Play" clicked. Activate it on "Settings > Other".
• Dynamic multi-language
  Now you can let visitor change site language, and make your site have multi-laguage support. More info and guide
• Category Filter (Plugin)
  The purpose of this plugin is to filtering and automatically change specific game category name during game import process. Can be useful if you're already localize category name (non-english) and want to change english category name into translated one.
• Moderate Comment
  Comment can be moderated by admin before get apporved and shown for everyone. Activate it on "Settings > User" also use latest "Comments Manager" plugin.

Changes

• Database changes

Fix

• Fix bugs

v1.4.4

New

Changes

Fix

• Fix bugs

v1.4.3

New

• Static Site (Plugin)
  Make your site extremely fast by converting almost entire site into html files. More info
• Webp image support
  Convert and generate WEBP thumbnail format, reduce file size up to 80% compared to regular PNG or JPG and also SEO friendly.
  Activate it on "Settings > Advanced".
• Construct 3 auto thumbnails
  Now thumb_1 and thumb_2 is optional for Construct 3 games, thumbnail will be generated from "icon-512.png" from game file (zip).

Changes

• Remove geoplugin to avoid potential issues
• Thumbnail Importer (Plugin) now add Webp support

Fix

• Fix bug

v1.4.2

New

Changes

• PRETTY URL : Now also rewrite search url
• PRETTY URL : Add trailing slash at the end of url (get_permalink())
• PRETTY URL : Redirect 301 to trailing slash url
• Edit Collection now showing game list and have missing game detection
• Attention!
  Theme scipts.js that pointing '../includes' will not work, if you use custom theme, update your script path to '/includes'.

• Database changes, add "trends" table
• Add game form improvement

Fix

• Fix bugs

v1.3.7

New

• (API) Get player score from database
• (API) Get player score rank

Changes

Fix

• Fix access non exist user profile
• Fix player score API
• Fix error delete user

v1.3.6

New

• Multiple Banner sources
  Now you can use multiple banner sources and randomly shown (Ads Manager Plugin).
• Banner ads statistics
  Banner ads interaction now recorded.

Changes

Fix

• Bug fixes

v1.3.5

New

• Ads Manager (Plugin)
  Let you show in-game ads or pre-roll ads inside the game using IMA SDK (or Adsense for games) or your own Banner ads, more info.
• Option hide login
  Now you can hide login link with site settings.

Changes

• Game API
  Add show ads.
• Improve menus compatibility

Fix

• Bug fixes

v1.3.4

New

• Plugin Updater
  Add plugin update button and plugin update checker.
• Game Reports (Plugin)
  Players / Users can report a game to admin.
• Plugin header and footer
  Plugin can instert a php script in header and footer.

Changes

• Dashboard
  Add latest comments and reports in dashboard page.
• Add return home link for login and register page
• Install.php
  Install.php return to home instead of show "installed" string

Fix

v1.3.3

New

• Theme Options
  Let you configure theme with admin panel if a theme support Theme Options.
• Google Login (Plugin)
  Add Login with Google, used for both login and registration.
• Theme delete & duplicate
  Now you can delete and duplicate a theme from admin panel.

Changes

• Improvements

Fix

• Various small bug fixes

v1.3.2

New

Changes

• Improve updater
• Update game API
• Remove Style Editor
  Use "Theme Editor" plugin instead.
• Set max list of liked games to 15
• Disable HTML tag on comments
  For better scurity and also to avoid spam user.
• Scurity improvement

Fix

• Register logo
• Remove "cloudarcade" folder on root
• Delete "cloudarcade.zip" on root

v1.3.1

New

Changes

Fix

• Fix cron too frequent

v1.3.0

Info

Here is the list of theme files that already been updated:

• archive.php
• fuctions.php
• game.php
• home.php
• archive.php
• search.php
• style/style.css
• parts/footer-copyright.php
• parts/navigation-top.php
• parts/sidebar.php
• includes/footer.php
• includes/header.php

Useful link

New

• Menus
  Let you create navigation menu with drag & drop method (No HTML code required). Dropdown menu is supported.
• Widgets
  Similar to Wordpress widget.
• Auto Publish (Plugin)
  Automatically post or publish games with timer, so you can let the CMS work for you. Auto Publish info & guide
• Theme updater
  Now theme update is separated from CMS updater. You can update CMS without updating themes.
• Theme uploader
  You can install theme dirrectly from theme page.
• Login logo uploader
  Now you can add or update "Login logo" from site settings.
• Delete account
  User or player can delete their own account.

Changes

• Minor update
  Many part of the CMS and theme files has been changed
• Database changes
  Add menus and prefs table
• Scores
  On previous version, score will added even current player score is already exist. Now the CMS only update score if morethan it's best score.
• Footer copyright
  Remove "CloudArcade" branding on footer (Themes).

Fix

v1.2.9

New

• Fetch games API (includes/fetch.php)
  With Fetch API, you can create "Load more" button and create your own RSS feed. Tutorial Create “Load More” games with Custom Page
• Custom Fields (Plugin)
  Now you can add custom parameter / data / fields for games, pages and categories. Tutorial How to use “Custom Fields” and what can it do ?

Changes

• Add index.php on "admin" folder
• Database changes

Fix

v1.2.8

New

• "Remember me" login or login session.
  User can auto logged-in with 3 month cookie expiration date (the last site access).

Changes

Fix

v1.2.7

New

Changes

• Open game in "New window"
  "New window" go to current domain page instead of distributor source url.
• .htaccess
  .htaccess file has been updated.
• Pretty URL
  On previous version, you can't access "your-domain.com/category" because it doesn't have a slash in the end, now you can access any page with or without a slash "/".
  "your-domain.com/category/action&page=2" now changed to "your-domain.com/category/action/2
• get_permalink()
  get_permalink() now support more than 2 parameters.
• Theme scripts
  Some of theme scripts has been updated.

Fix

• IP Address too long
  Logged in IP address now skipped if too long.

v1.2.6

New

• Comments Manager (Plugin)
  Let you manage and moderate all user comments.
• Comment filter
  Filtering specific words or sentences from user comment. If user comment contains listed words, it's words will be replaced with "***".
  Comment filter located at "includes/banned-words-comment.json".

Changes

• Increase fetch games amount
  GamePix and Gamedistribution max amount now increased to 100, and for "Fetch Games Extended" increased to 1000.
• Improve fetch games method
  Now you can import thousand games in one click. previously you can't, to avoid server time out.

Fix

v1.2.5

New

• Leaderboard
  Let you create or show game leaderboard based on player score. Leaderboard will be shown on game page if there is a score record.
• Game API
  With CloudArcade API, you can communicate between game and your server. More info about Game API https://cloudarcade.net/api/
• Blog / Posts
  This require a plugin to use blog/post feature. Now you can create a blog or a news page. You can access blog page with your-domain.com/post/

Changes

• Pages
  Page scripts part from internal scripts now deprecated, combined to "core/page.php"
• Sitemap
  Sitemap url now including blog posts if exist.
• User XP
  Submitted score increase 10xp.

Fix

• Cumulative Layout Shift

v1.2.4

New

• Custom path
  Now you can change category or path name (page, game, search and more). Unicode is allowed.
• Unicode slug
  On previous version, unicode character is not allowed for slug. by activating this, you can use unicode characters on slug or another url.
• Domain port
  Add domain port on "DOMAIN" constant. used for local server.

Changes

• Sub-folder
  Sub-folder usage configuration now more easier and clean to do.
• MDBootstrap css & js stored locally
• admin/login.php now deprecated
  Login script now use a single codebase to avoid confusion.
• Increase page & offset for Fetch Games

v1.2.3

New

• Add translation/localization.
• Add avatar picker/chooser.
• Add 20 cool avatars.
• Add user management plugin.

Changes

Fix

v1.2.0

New

• Add Player login & registration
• Add Player Rank, Badge, stats and more.
• Add Player profile / dashboard.
• Add Comments with hierarchy model
• Add new Statistics

Changes

Fix

v1.1.9

New

• Add Plugin system
• Add Plugin repository (free plugins)
• Add Theme page
• Add site Icon uploader (settings)

Changes

• Structure changes.

v1.1.7

New

• Add Collections (game collection)
• Add separate description and meta description for category
• Add html info on update page.

Changes

• Small improvements.

v1.1.5

New

• Minor update
• Add new "GamePix" distribution
• Add site statistics.
• New Admin dashboard.
• Add light/dark mode.

Changes

• Better error detections.
• Change quote source.
• And many more.

v1.1.4

New

• Add edit Category
• Sub-folder compatibility

v1.0.9

New

• Add sitemap generator
• Add category description
• Sub-folder compatibility

v1.0.8

Fix

• Fix site logo uploader

v1.0.6

New

• Add JSON importer (Bulk importer)
• Add Rating system
• Add like & dislike
• Manual Facebook comments

v1.0.5

New

• Add Twitter share
• Add Twitter meta
• Responsive dashboard

Changes

• Improve pagination
• Update 404 image
• Update themes

v1.0.4

New

• Add GameMonetize distribution
• Add small thumbnail generator
• Add advanced site settings
• Add image for game share

Changes

• More SEO friendly site
• More optimization
• Updated themes

v1.0.3

Fix

• Fix error 500 bugs

New

• Add game page editor

v1.0.2

New

• Add Updater
• Add Unicode support

v1.0.1

Fix

• Fix remote add bug

New

• Add login attempt
• Add developer & user documentation

v1.0.0

New

• Initial release