Title: Widget for Retro Games Achievements
Author: Hiscorebob
Published: <strong>January 3, 2017</strong>
Last modified: March 10, 2017

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# Widget for Retro Games Achievements

 By [Hiscorebob](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hiscorebob/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/widget-for-retro-games-achievements.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-for-retro-games-achievements/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-for-retro-games-achievements/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-for-retro-games-achievements/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-for-retro-games-achievements/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-for-retro-games-achievements/)

## Description

This plugin enables a widget to display achievements from retroachievements.org (
RA).

To get started :

 1. Create an Account on http://www.retroachievements.org
 2. Obtain an API-Key
 3. Configure the Widget with your RA Account and your API Key, and specify the number
    of latest entries to display.

Detailled Instructions are available here : http://www.hiscorebob.lu/workshops/wordpress-
plugin-retroachievements-widget/

You can customize parts of the appearance through your WP Theme’s Custom CSS.

## Screenshots

[⌊Sample Configuration of the Widget⌉⌊Sample Configuration of the Widget⌉[

Sample Configuration of the Widget

[⌊Widget Display on Front-End⌉⌊Widget Display on Front-End⌉[

Widget Display on Front-End

## Installation

Upload the plugin files to the “/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name” directory, or install
the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.

 1. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” screen in WordPress
 2. Use the “Appearance” -> “Widgets” screen to place the widget in the desired area.
 3. Configure the Widget in the “Appearance” -> “Widgets” Screen to match with your
    Retroachievements Username (case sensitive!) and API-Key (both can be obtained 
    from www.retroachievements.org. The number of recent entries is limited to 50, 
    so if you put 60, then only 50 will be displayed.

Optionally, you can customize parts of the appearance of the widget with extra CSS
classes ( you must add them to you Theme’s Custom CSS)

Detailled Instructions are available here : http://www.hiscorebob.lu/workshops/wordpress-
plugin-retroachievements-widget/

## FAQ

  Nothing is displayed at all?

This can be either a wrong username or an invalid/missing API-Key

  After activating and placing the Widget, only the Retroachievements Avatar Icon
is displayed ?

Your API-Key ist most likely empty or invalid

  The Game List ist empty?

Make sure to use only integer numbers , and put at least 1 into the “Number of recent
entries to display:” (default = 5, max = 50)

  Everything is displayed except the Avatar Icon

The username is case sensitive ! Make sure that you have entered your username respecting
upper/lower case

  I want to display 100 recent Entries, but only 50 are displayed

That’s because the retroachievement API only returns 50 games.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Widget for Retro Games Achievements” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Hiscorebob ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hiscorebob/)

[Translate “Widget for Retro Games Achievements” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/widget-for-retro-games-achievements)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-for-retro-games-achievements/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/widget-for-retro-games-achievements/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/widget-for-retro-games-achievements/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/widget-for-retro-games-achievements/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

1.1
 Cleanup in CSS Code You need to adjust your theme’s custom CSS Entries, in 
case you use this. Please see http://www.hiscorebob.lu/workshops/wordpress-plugin-
retroachievements-widget/ for further details

1.0
 Initial Version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.7.33**
 * Tag
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-for-retro-games-achievements/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Hiscorebob ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hiscorebob/)

## Support

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