DemoSlot Embed

DemoSlot Embed shows free demo versions of online slots on your site. The demos come from the official sources of the game studios, through the free DemoSlot partner network.

• Demo Game block – search the catalogue by game or studio in the editor and pick a game.
• Game Grid block – games of one studio, of one category, random games, or your own list, with optional studio and category filters for visitors. Columns 1–8 or “Auto”, and Wide or Full width on themes that offer it.
• Game Catalogue block – the whole catalogue in one place, with a search field, Provider, Theme and Sort by above it and a “Load more” button: [demoslot_catalogue].
• Your own real-money button – add your link in the settings and a “Play for real” button appears under every single game; a block can use its own link or hide it.
• Shortcodes for the classic editor and page builders such as Elementor, Divi and WPBakery: [demoslot_game game="pragmatic-play/sweet-bonanza"] and [demoslot_games studio="hacksaw-gaming" count="8" columns="4"].
• Pasted links – paste a demoslot.com slot page address such as https://www.demoslot.com/free-slots/sweet-bonanza/ into an Embed block or on its own line in the classic editor, and it becomes the same player as the Demo Game block. A /de/, /pt/, /es/, /th/ or /id/ address opens the game in that language.
• Automatic games – optional: every post of the types you choose gets the game its title names (“Sweet Bonanza Review” gets Sweet Bonanza), at the top, after the first paragraph, or before or after the first H2 heading; posts without a matching game get nothing or the 8 newest games. Each post can choose its own game or switch it off, and the Automatic games screen (DemoSlot Embed → Automatic games) finds the games first and lists what each post gets before you turn it on.
• Click-to-play – a thumbnail and a Play button; the game loads only after the click, inline or in a pop-up, with a fullscreen button.
• Fast pages – the catalogue is copied to your site and refreshed daily; thumbnails can be stored on your site as WebP.
• Casino games too – besides slots the catalogue holds table games (roulette, blackjack, baccarat, poker, video poker), crash, instant-win, scratch, bingo and keno games, each with its game type.
• schema.org VideoGame markup for each embedded game (optional), with the game type as genre.
• Games that stop working are hidden automatically after the next daily refresh.
• Moving from SlotsLaunch – Tools → Migrate from SlotsLaunch finds the SlotsLaunch games, grids and iframes of your site, finds the same games in the DemoSlot catalogue, shows a dry run you can review, and replaces them with DemoSlot shortcodes, with a backup and a rollback. Game pages of the SlotsLaunch plugin keep their addresses after you switch it off. WP-CLI: wp demoslot-embed slotslaunch.
• Ready for translation (text domain demoslot-embed).

Shortcode attributes

[demoslot_game game="…" lang="…" currency="…" real_url="…" real_text="…" real="hide" align="…"]

• game – the game’s slug, or studio/game.
• lang – en, de, pt, es, th or id; empty uses the setting.
• currency – a three-letter code such as EUR; empty uses the setting.
• real_url, real_text – the link and text of the real-money button for this game; empty uses the settings. real="hide" shows no button.

• align – wide or full (where the theme supports it).

  [demoslot_games studio=”…” category=”…” type=”…” games=”a,b” count=”8″ columns=”4″ order=”…” filters=”…”]

• studio, category or games choose the games; without any of them the grid is random.

• type – keep only games of one type: slot, crash, instant, scratch, bingo, keno, roulette, blackjack, baccarat, poker, video-poker, dice or other.
• count 1–48, columns 1–8 or auto (as many as fit).
• order – name, newest or random.
• filters – none, studio, category or studio,category.

• align – wide or full.

  [demoslot_catalogue per_page=”24″ columns=”auto” order=”newest” type=”…” provider=”…” align=”…”]

• per_page 12–48 – games shown at first and added by “Load more”.

• columns – auto or 1–8.
• order – the sort shown first: newest, name or name_desc.
• type – one game type, as above; empty shows every type.
• provider – one studio, for example pragmatic-play: only its games, without the Provider list; search, themes, sort and “Load more” stay within it.
• lang, currency, align – as above.

Visitors search by game or studio name and pick a provider, a theme and the sort; the page is not reloaded. The Theme list appears when the catalogue has at least two themes; for now themes come with the games that have a page on demoslot.com.

External services

This plugin is an interface to the DemoSlot partner network, a service of DemoSlot (https://www.demoslot.com/). It does not work without a DemoSlot partner key, which you get for free by applying on demoslot.com.

• When – only after you save a key: when you save it (a connection check), once a day (the catalogue refresh), when you press “Sync now”, in the background for thumbnails when “Local images” is on, and during a SlotsLaunch migration dry run that you start (Tools → Migrate from SlotsLaunch, or WP-CLI).
• What is sent – your partner key in a request header, and the plugin’s version, its edition and your site address in the user agent (for example DemoSlotEmbed/0.7.0 (wporg); https://example.com/). A migration dry run also sends the names, studios and types of the SlotsLaunch games found on your site, to find the same DemoSlot games. Nothing about your visitors is sent by the plugin.
• What your visitors’ browsers load – the game thumbnails from demoslot.com (unless “Local images” serves them from your site), and, only after a visitor clicks Play, the DemoSlot player page, which loads the studio’s demo game. Those pages are run by DemoSlot and the studios. The player’s address carries the address of your page (without its query) after a #, which the browser never sends over the network; the DemoSlot player page reads it and passes it to DemoSlot with the start of the game.
• What DemoSlot does with your page addresses – once a day DemoSlot opens a few of the pages where your games were played and looks for the credit line, so that your partner account can show where it is found. With the edition from WordPress.org this is only reported to you and never stops your games. With the direct edition from demoslot.com, where the line is part of the plugin, a site whose pages lack it is warned by email and its games pause until the line is back.
• Updates – a copy installed from demoslot.com instead of WordPress.org (the “direct” edition) also asks DemoSlot for its updates, at most twice a day.

DemoSlot terms and conditions: https://www.demoslot.com/demoslot-site-terms-conditions/
DemoSlot privacy policy: https://www.demoslot.com/privacy-policy/

SlotsLaunch API (optional, migration only). Only when you press “Look up SlotsLaunch ids” on the migration screen (or set SLOTSLAUNCH_TOKEN for WP-CLI), the plugin asks the SlotsLaunch API (https://slotslaunch.com/api/games) for the names of SlotsLaunch game ids found on your site that have no name there. It sends those ids, the SlotsLaunch token you give for that lookup (or the one your SlotsLaunch plugin saved, if you tick that box), your site’s domain as Origin, and with an API secret a signature. The token is used for that lookup only and never stored. SlotsLaunch is run by its own company: https://slotslaunch.com/ — terms: https://slotslaunch.com/terms-conditions — privacy: https://slotslaunch.com/privacy-policy

Backups of the SlotsLaunch migration. Before the migration replaces a field, it keeps the field’s original in its backup table, byte for byte, so a rollback restores it exactly. A SlotsLaunch iframe pasted into a page often carries your SlotsLaunch token in its address; that token stays in the backup and in its download (Tools → Migrate from SlotsLaunch → Backups → Download, or wp demoslot-embed slotslaunch backup), and the Backups block says so. Keep the downloaded file private, and delete the backup once you no longer need a rollback. Deleting the plugin deletes its backups.

Credit line

The plugin can print the line “Free demo by DemoSlot” with a link to demoslot.com under every player and every grid, in your page’s language. It is off until you choose to show it: once DemoSlot has accepted your key, Settings → DemoSlot Embed asks you once, with “Yes, show the link” and “No, thanks”. You can change your answer later under “Credit link”, and make the link nofollow. The games work the same either way.