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GameSync Blocks Theme

A block theme (Full Site Editing) for game sites — a clean game catalogue with a dark header and red accents, Dark, Blue, Green and Retro style variations, review scores for a review site, and every page, template and section editable in the Site Editor, built on the Game Data Importer's game blocks.

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Needs WordPress 6.6+ and the free GameSync Game Data Importer, which provides the game blocks the templates use
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A full WordPress install running this theme with the Importer and more than 500 imported games. Click around -- nothing here is a screenshot.

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Demo content is imported from IGDB for demonstration only. Newsletter, account and email features on the demos are for show.

Dark style
Light style (default)

Light by default, with a Dark and a Blue style one click away under Appearance → Editor → Styles. Colors, fonts and spacing are set in one place and apply to every template.

Built with blocks

A game site you can change without code

Full Site Editing

The header, footer, home page, game pages, archives, search and 404 are all block templates. Move a section, swap a block or restyle the whole site in the Site Editor.

Game pages made of game blocks

Cover, genre pills, details, store buttons, storyline, trailers, screenshots, similar games, more from the same studio, age ratings and posts about the game, each one a block you can reorder or remove.

Five looks

Choose Default, Dark, Blue, Green or Retro in one click, or tweak the palette yourself. The dark header and footer stay dark in every style.

A filterable game library

The All Games page uses the importer's Library block, with search, platform and genre filters and a card grid. Genre, platform and other archives use the same card grid.

Patterns for every section

Home hero, latest games with top rated, latest news, a sidebar, a game page layout, a Top 10 page, a release calendar, a platform page, a My games page and a game review layout are in the inserter under Patterns → GameSync Blocks.

Standard WordPress tools

No custom admin screens or page builder. Menus, colors and fonts all use the standard WordPress editor, so it keeps working as WordPress grows.

Everything, in detail

Full feature list

Templates

Front page, blog home, single post, page, search and 404.
A game page template, an All Games library page and a card-grid archive for genres, platforms, franchises, developers and the other game taxonomies.
A header with the site title and navigation, and a footer with a genre list and menu, both editable as template parts.
Responsive layout: game grids drop to two columns on phones, and the menu collapses into a button.

Game blocks it is built on

Game details, store links, storyline, trailers, screenshots, similar games, more from the same studio and age ratings on every game page.
Posts about this game on a game page, and Games in this post on a blog post, from the importer's Games panel.
Library, Browse and Game search blocks for your own pages and sidebars, with live search suggestions as visitors type.
Favorite and status buttons (Want to play, Playing, Completed) on every game page, and a My games page, for visitors who are logged in.
Game data can be shown anywhere with Block Bindings, for example a rating or release year in a paragraph.

Design

A clean light catalogue with a dark header and footer, red accents and section banners.
Default, Dark, Blue, Green and Retro style variations, plus your own colors, fonts and spacing from the Styles panel.
Game and post cards with cover art, release year and a rating badge.
Review mode: give a post a score out of 10 and it gets a badge, and the Latest reviews and Top rated reviews patterns list it.

Good to know

Requires WordPress 6.6 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer.
Built for the free GameSync Game Data Importer; the game blocks come from the plugin.
Logged-in visitors can save favorites and track games, and a My games page is included. There is no newsletter or settings page; the PixelWire, Arcade, Nocturne and Deals themes add those.
The importer bundles the theme: install it under Game Data Importer → Themes & Add-ons.

Common questions

What is a block theme?

A block theme is built from WordPress blocks instead of PHP template files. You edit the whole site, including the header, footer and every page layout, in the Site Editor under Appearance → Editor.

Do I need the Game Data Importer?

Yes. The game page, the library and the game cards use blocks from the free GameSync Game Data Importer. Without it the theme still works as a plain blog theme, but the game sections stay empty.

How do I change the colors?

Open Appearance → Editor → Styles. Choose the Dark, Blue, Green or Retro style, or open Colors to change the palette. Buttons, banners, pills and links follow the palette automatically.

Which GameSync theme should I pick?

Pick GameSync Blocks if you want to build and restyle the site yourself in the Site Editor. Pick PixelWire, Arcade, Nocturne or Deals if you also want a newsletter and settings pages in wp-admin. The Live Demos page compares them.

Build your game site in the Site Editor

GameSync Blocks is free. Download it, upload it in WordPress, and pair it with the free Game Data Importer.

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