{"id":14183,"date":"2026-09-09T13:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playgama.com\/blog\/?p=14183"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:24:44","slug":"how-to-add-games-to-a-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playgama.com\/blog\/business-faqs\/how-to-add-games-to-a-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add games to a WordPress site?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Add a shortcode or embed block with a one-line iframe snippet from a games aggregator: Playgama Partners (up to 50% revenue share per playgama.com\/partners, payout from $100), GameDistribution, GamePix, GameMonetize or Famobi. No plugin coding, no game hosting; you paste one line into a page or widget.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At a glance<\/h2>\n
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Fact<\/th>\nValue<\/th>\nSource<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Games available through Playgama\u2019s partner export API<\/td>\n3,340 titles<\/td>\nplaygama.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Games listed on the Playgama portal<\/td>\n10,000+<\/td>\nplaygama.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Playgama Partners revenue share to site owners<\/td>\nup to 50%<\/td>\nplaygama.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minimum payout for Playgama Partners<\/td>\n$100, bank transfer<\/td>\nplaygama.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Commission without a CLID parameter in the embed<\/td>\nnot counted<\/td>\nplaygama.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Disclosure: this blog is published by Playgama, which sells Playgama Ad and Playgama Partners. Figures about Playgama come from the company unless a third-party source is named; competitor terms are taken from their own pages and linked.<\/em><\/p>\n

On WordPress this means editing a page or a widget area with a Custom HTML block and dropping in the snippet the aggregator gives you, or using the aggregator\u2019s own plugin if one exists. None of these require you to host game files, write server code, or manage a CDN. The games run inside an iframe served from the aggregator\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n

What actually decides whether this earns anything?<\/h2>\n

Three things, independent of which vendor you pick. First, dwell time: does your audience click into a game and stay, or bounce off a page that happens to have a widget on it, which is a property of your traffic, not of any vendor\u2019s terms. Second, revenue share and payout floor: Playgama\u2019s partners page states up to 50% revenue share with a $100 payout floor, and a percentage of zero traffic is still zero. Third, placement: a games section buried three clicks deep on a B2B site behaves differently from a widget on a community forum where people already sit for long sessions.<\/p>\n

Comparison of embed options<\/h2>\n
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Option<\/th>\nRevenue share<\/th>\nPayout floor<\/th>\nCatalog size<\/th>\nHosting needed<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Playgama Partners<\/td>\nup to 50% (per playgama.com\/partners<\/a>)<\/td>\n$100 (bank transfer)<\/td>\n10,000+ portal \/ 3,340 via export API<\/td>\nnone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GameDistribution<\/a><\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GamePix<\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GameMonetize<\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Famobi<\/a><\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnot published<\/td>\nnone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Famobi describes itself on its own site as a games portal partner; it states \u201cFamobi is one of the first partners of YouTube with 10 games on the platform.\u201d That\u2019s a distribution claim, not a revenue-share disclosure, and none of these four competitors publish their site-owner terms in a way you can quote a number from, which is why the table above says \u201cnot published\u201d rather than guessing.<\/p>\n

Recommended path: Playgama Partners<\/h2>\n

Log into Playgama Partners<\/a>, get a CLID (this is the tracking parameter that attributes revenue to your account; no CLID means no commission), pick games from the portal or widget, and paste the one-line embed into a WordPress Custom HTML block or a theme widget area. There\u2019s also a JSON catalog and a Partner API (GET \/api\/v1\/games\/export-list, with page, pageSize, clid and category parameters) if you want to build your own games page instead of using the stock widget, plus a white-label portal option that keeps your own branding on the game pages. Sites already running this, listed on the partners page, include y8, lagged, kbhgames and play-games. What to know before applying: revenue and payout terms are the ones stated on the partners page, not custom-negotiated, and the widget renders inside an iframe like every competitor above.<\/p>\n

Technical and legal notes<\/h2>\n

An embedded games iframe is third-party content. Whether it triggers GDPR consent requirements or COPPA obligations depends on what the specific widget actually does, such as which cookies it sets, whether it serves personalized ads, and who is legally acting as the data controller, not on the mere fact that it\u2019s embedded. Google\u2019s own guidance for H5 Games Ads walks through the account setup and configuration steps rather than asserting a blanket compliance status, so treat consent and kids-content checks as something to verify against the aggregator\u2019s specific ad setup, per Google\u2019s AdSense H5 Games Ads sign-up page<\/a>. An iframe also adds a network request and layout weight that affects Core Web Vitals, particularly Largest Contentful Paint if the widget sits above the fold; see web.dev\u2019s Core Web Vitals<\/a> guide for what to measure before and after adding it.<\/p>\n

Embedding someone else\u2019s games versus running your own ads<\/h2>\n

Embedding a catalog and running your own ad inventory are two different jobs. A catalog embed gets you a revenue share of what the games earn inside the aggregator\u2019s ad slots. If you instead want to sell your own ad inventory on a self-hosted game, that\u2019s a separate setup, closer to Google AdSense\u2019s H5 Games Ads product, where you apply for an AdSense account and, once approved, configure the ad units yourself, as described on Google\u2019s AdSense H5 Games Ads sign-up page<\/a>. That path is for people publishing their own game, not for a site owner who just wants a games section.<\/p>\n

Edge case: an audience that does not linger<\/h2>\n

If your WordPress site is a B2B blog, a documentation hub, or a news wire where the average visit is under a minute, a games widget will not move revenue regardless of which vendor you pick. Test dwell time on a sample page first: if readers already spend several minutes per session, a games section has a chance; if they don\u2019t, no revenue share fixes that.<\/p>\n

Next step<\/h2>\n

Apply through Playgama Partners<\/a>, get your CLID, and embed one widget on your highest-dwell-time page before rolling it out site-wide.<\/p>\n

Sources<\/h2>\n