CTL Arcade

The best arcade for your wordpress website

About this Plugin

CTL Arcade will allow you to add a real arcade on your worpress website, in this way your users will be more involved and will stay connected longer.

It's possible to add Ads banner at the beginning of each game and at the end of each level. This will give you a new tool to increase your revenues.

Your own users will promote your website sharing their scores on the main Social Networks, with no extra costs for you.

You'll get by default the score-sharing on Twitter. To add Facebook just follow the guideline below.

3 widgets can be added in your pages through a shortcode.

  • Game iframe
  • Rate the Game
  • Leaderboard

Minimum Requirements:

  • PHP 4.3
  • WordPress 4.3.1
  • HTML5
  • Canvas
  • Javascript / jQuery

This plugin is designed to work only with games built by Code This Lab.

Check all available games here.

Installation

This plugin installation is the same as any other WordPress plugin. For further instructions, refer to the two options below:

Installation by ZIP File

From your WordPress dashboard, choose 'Add New' under the 'Plugins' category.
Select 'Upload' from the set of links at the top of the page (the second link).
From here, search the zip file titled 'ctl-arcade.zip' included in your plugin purchase and click the 'Install Now' button.
Once installation is complete, activate the plugin to enable its features.

Installation by FTP

Find the directoy titled 'ctl-arcade'.
Upload it and all the files in the plugins directory of your WordPress.
Install (/WORDPRESS-DIRECTORY/wp-content/plugins/).
From your WordPress dashboard, choose 'Installed Plugins' under the 'Plugins' category.
Locate the newly added plugin and click on the 'Activate' link to enable its features.

Plugin Settings

In this panel you can manage all the plugin features.

Empty Scores

Please Note:

This action is not reversible! All user's scores will be deleted!

Empty Ratings

Please Note:

This action is not reversible! All user's ratings will be deleted!

Facebook app id

If you want your users to share on Facebook their scores, add the app id of your website, or create a new one!

It's totally free and will allow you to get free traffic from Facebook.

Follow the guideline on https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ to create a Facebook App for your website.

Here is a useful guide created by TheFBDirectory

Styles

Leaderboard Style

7 available colors to customize the widgets and the CTL Arcade buttons, choose the one that fits better with your website theme.

If you don't like the default colors, you can customize the css in the dedicated section.

Please note that users must be logged in WordPress to save their score!

Extra CSS

In this field you can override the styles of CTL Arcade. You need good css3 skills to make these changes.

Refer to admin-main.css, commons.css files in the folder /WORDPRESS-DIRECTORY/wp-content/plugins/ctl-arcade/css/ before the override.

Ads

CTL Arcade allows you to monetize with your games!

You just need to set your Ads codes, your games will be already optimized to show Ads in the right spots.

This plugin was tested with Adsense and Cpmstar.

Minimum time between ads

You can set the time between two Ads Banners, in this way you won't run the risk of bothering your users.

Preloader AD minimum duration

The preloader appears at the beginning of each game. This Ad is seen at least one time by all users when the game starts.

In this field you can set the minimum duration of the Ad before users could skip it.

Preloader AD code

Add in this field the html/js code of your banner.

Interlevel AD minimum duration

The interlevel appears at the end of each game level and when users quit the game.

In this field you can set the minimum duration of the Ad before users could skip it.

Interlevel AD code

Add in this field the html/js code of your banner.

Install Games

Each game plugin installation is the same as any other WordPress plugin. We recommend to install them from zip file and after the installation of CTL Arcade Plugin.

CTL Arcade comes with a free game: Minesweeper

From your WordPress dashboard, choose 'Add New' under the 'Plugins' category.
Select 'Upload' from the set of links at the top of the page (the second link).
From here, search the zip file titled 'ctl-minesweeper.zip' included in your plugin purchase and click the 'Install Now' button.
Once installation is complete, activate the plugin to enable its features.

Manage Games

In this section you can manage your Arcade.

List of installed games

In this list you'll find all the installed games. You can search it by name or the tags defined by Code This Lab.

The button under the game icon allows you to activate/deactivate your game quickly.

Remember that in pages containing shortcodes of disabled games, will occur an error message.

Full compatible games

In this section will appear all the games compatible with your CTL Arcade Plugin that haven't been installed yet.

You will be able to buy them easily and safely on CodeCanyon.net.

Keep always an eye on this section because every month new games to install will be available.

Game Settings

In this section you will access to the setting of each game.

Status

With this toggle you can enable/disable the game.

Empty Scores

Please note:

This action is not reversible! All game scores will be deleted!

Empty Ratings

Please note:

This action is not reversible! All game ratings will be deleted!

Testing

Play the game before publishing it on your website.

Rating

This widget allows to rate the game. You can view the current number of votes.

Please note that users must be logged in WordPress to rate the game!

Leaderboard

This is the game ranking, you can filter the best scores by week, month and all time.

Remember that users must be logged in WordPress to save their score!

Shortcodes

It's time to give life to your games!

This plugin installs 3 buttons on Wordpress Visual Editor.

  • Game Widget
  • Game Rating
  • Game Leaderboard

Please note, you can install only one kind of widget for each page.

Game Widget

Choose the game among those already installed.

You can set a maximum height for the game.

The game in the website will resize according to its aspect ratio.

Once clicked on the game, click insert to place the shortcode into the content.

Game Rating

Choose the game among those already installed.

Once clicked on the game, click insert to place the shortcode into the content.

Game Leaderboard

Choose the game among those already installed.

You can set the default ranking period and the number of scores to show (max 50).

Once clicked on the game, click insert to place the shortcode into the content.

Uninstall

When you unistall the plugin or a game, you'll lose all stored data!

Be careful before uninstalling the program!

Credits

We used the following resources to create this guide and plugin.

Thank you very much for purchasing this plugin. We'd be glad to help you if you have any questions related to the plugin. We'll do our best to assist you. If you have a more general question about the plugins on CodeCanyon, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.