The plugin adds a widget that shows news for selected games.
Configuration Options
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Steam Game IDs: Games are referenced by their steam app id. Just enter a comma-separated list of app ids, like “440, 570, 730” (without quotes). You can find the full list of steam app ids at http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamApps/GetAppList/v0002/ .
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Maximum Number of News: The maximum number of news to show.
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News Length: It limits the length of shown news.
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HTML Template: Allows you to define HTML layout of the widget in a way you like. The news data can be extracted with special tags {{some_news.some_property}}. Just put those in a right place. The plugin will replace them with actual data. To iterate through all fetched news use
<foreach>tag, e.g.<foreach iterator="{{news}}" in="{{newslist}}">{{news.text}}</foreach>, where {{newslist}} is a predefined value and it points to the news set.Each news has following properties:
- title, e.g. {{news.title}}.
- url, e.g. {{news.url}}.
- text, e.g. {{news.text}}.
- date, e.g {{news.date}}.
- time, e.g. {{news.time}}.
Other Notes
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The date/time format as well as the timezone of the news match the ones from WordPress “General Settings”.
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The widget’s content is updated about every hour.
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The plugin requires PHP 5.3.3 or higher.
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A special requirement from the data provider: Each page that uses the Steam Web API must contain a link to http://steampowered.com with the text “Powered by Steam”. We suggest that you put this link in your footer so it is out of the way but still visible to interested users.