Steam News Widget

Description

The plugin adds a widget that shows news for selected games.

Configuration Options

• 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/ .

• Maximum Number of News:
  The maximum number of news to show.

• News Length:
  It limits the length of shown news.

• 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

• The date/time format as well as the timezone of the news match the ones from WordPress « General Settings ».

• The widget’s content is updated about every hour.

• The plugin requires PHP 5.3.3 or higher.

• 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.