Arcade Games Free Documentation

Your awesome theme / template documentation


Introduction

  • Theme Name : Arcade Games
  • Author : misbahwp
  • Support Forum : https://wordpress.org/support/theme/arcade-games/
  • License : GNU General Public License v3 or later
  • Discription :Arcade Games WordPress Theme is a vibrant and dynamic solution designed for gaming bloggers, retro arcade enthusiasts, and online arcade platform creators. With a nostalgic yet modern layout, it perfectly captures the essence of arcade classics like coin operated games, arcade shooter titles, and racing arcade games. Whether you're building a site for a vintage arcade, an arcade gaming center, or a home arcade blog, this theme brings your arcade vision to life. Featuring bold neon colors, retro fonts, and pixel-style visuals, it evokes the feeling of 80s arcade games and 90s multiplayer arcade rooms. Ideal for showcasing arcade cabinets, game tokens, pinball machines, and even virtual arcade simulators, this free theme is SEO-friendly, responsive, and easy to customize. It also includes interactive homepage banners, gallery support for arcade screenshots, and blog sections for game walkthroughs, arcade game news, or retro game zone features. Perfect for arcade bars, gaming lounges, and amusement arcade listings, this theme allows users to browse your arcade attractions with ease across devices.

How to Establish the Theme

Setup Theme

Template installation is very simple process.

You can also install your theme using WP Admin

The first task is to log in to your WordPress admin area. Next, click on

1. In dashboard click on Appearance >> Themes

2. Click on the Add New button at the top of the themes page once page is loaded.
3. Click the button labelled as 'Upload Theme'.
4. Click on Browse Button then select your arcade-games.zip theme and click on install now button.
5. WordPress will now install your theme and display a success message, as well as a link to activate or to see the live preview. Congratulations on completing the installation of your theme.

Setup Home Page

The options of this page template (like sections location, disabling sections, number of posts they display) can be controlled it.

To design a home page, follow these steps.

1. Make a page to set the template: Go to Dashboard Pages >> Add New Page

Name it "home" or anything as you like. Then, from the template dropdown, pick "front page template".

The Page Attributes section provides your page a parent page and a template.

1. Make a page to set the template: Go to Dashboard Pages >> Add New Page

Design the front page as follows: Go to Setting >> Reading >> Set the front page display static page to home page.
When you're finished, you'll be able to see all of the demo content on the front page.

Necessary Plugins

When you initially activate the theme, you'll be asked to install these plugins on your Dashboard. You can ignore the message if you don't want to install these plugins on theme activation, and if you change your mind later, you can install them manually.

In the dashboard, go to Plugins >> Install Plugins.

Kirki

Plugin download link kirki


Woocommerce

Plugin download link Woocommerce


Configure Menu

Configure Menu

In the dashboard, visit Appearance >> Menu

To access the Menu Editor, visit the Dashboard and click on the 'Appearance' menu on the left-hand side. From there, select the 'Menus' option.

To create a new menu, follow these steps:At the top of the page, select "Create a new menu".Enter a name for your new menu in the "Menu Name" box.Click on the "Create Menu" button.

Your new custom menu has been successfully created.

On the front end, the menu will appear as follows.

Arcade Games Free Theme Setup

Configure Header

In order to proceed with You can set top header text and header button , so follow the below steps.

In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Header Settings

In front end, it will look like this.

Logo Setup

In order to proceed with Theme Logo setup, you can set site title and tagline, follow the below steps.

In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Site Identity >> Set Logo , Site Title and Tagline You can also make the tagline hidden.

In front end, it will look like this.

Slider Section

Fetch Categories

This screen is divided into 2 sections, the Add New Category and category table sections.

All of the categories are listed in this table. Categories are organized alphabetically and hierarchically.

In order to proceed with Theme social icon, so follow the below steps.

Follow the below steps to setup Category Settings.

In the dashboard, go to Posts >> Categories >> Add New

Once you have done with this you will see the categories on your theme customize.

In this section, you have to add new category for each post.

Fetch Post

In the dashboard, go to Posts >> Add New

In order to proceed with Post Settings, You can set post title and content. And Select which Category you want this post to show.

Follow the below steps to setup Post Settings.

In the dashboard, go to Posts >> Add New

You can make multiple posts for category.

Once you have done with this you will see the post on your front page.

Slider Settings

In order to proceed with Theme Slider Settings , you can set slide show , follow the below steps.

In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Slider Settings

Select number slides to show, then select the category which you have to show on slider.



In front end, it will look like this.

Top Games Section

Fetch Categories

This screen is divided into 2 sections, the Add New Category and category table sections.

All of the categories are listed in this table. Categories are organized alphabetically and hierarchically.

Follow the below steps to setup Category Settings.

In the dashboard, go to Products >> Categories >> Add New

Once you have done with this you will see the categories on your theme customize.

In this section, you have to add new category for each Products.

Fetch Products

In the dashboard, go to Products >> Add New

In order to proceed with Products Settings, You can set Products title and content. And Select which Category you want this Products to show.

Follow the below steps to setup Products Settings.

In the dashboard, go to Products >> Add New

You need to create a Products and then assign the categories you made to that Products and publish it..

Once you have done with this you will see the Products on your front page.

Top Games Settings

In order to proceed with Theme Top Games Settings , you can set Products to show , follow the below steps.

In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >>Top Games Settings

Select number Top Games to show, then select the category which you have to show on Top Games .

In front end, it will look like this.

Setup Footer Section

There are four columns in the footer. Any widget can be added there..

For Adding widgets first you have to add classic widget plugins.

1. In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Widgets

To add widgets to the footer, see the screenshot below.

You can add footer coloumns, for that you need to select widgets like text, image, gallery, etc which allows you to add text or image as per your choice with ease.

In order to manage content for footer and add some widgets, navigate to, follow the below steps.

2. In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Widgets >> Footer Sidebar

Your footer will appear like this once you have added widgets to it.

Footer Copyright Text

In order to proceed with footer Settings, You can fill the copyright content to footer copyright Settings.

5. In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Footer Setting

In front end, it will look like this.