Steam News Widget

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.