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The Casino Affiliate WordPress Theme
Build casino, poker, sportsbook and crypto review sites on the only gambling theme with trust and compliance built in. Trusted by 2000+ affiliates for more than 10 years — and rebuilt for 2026.
- 100/100 Lighthouse on mobile
- 0 KB of jQuery on the front end
- Dark mode in the header, not a second site
- 8 style variations, 5 one-click demos
One year of updates and support included · Free installation with demo content on your own site · PokaTheme 4 customers get v5 at no cost
Need a theme of your own? We also design and develop custom affiliate themes — made for your brand, your markets and your data. Custom theme design & developmentBuilt for WordPress 7.1 — block bindings, theme.json, style variations
Latest Theme version: September 2026 (5.0.1)
Tested on PHP 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3
Everything you need to build a casino affiliate website
PokaTheme has been the casino and poker affiliate theme of choice for more than 10 years. Version 5 keeps everything that made it fast and adds what the niche now demands: a real data model for operators and bonuses, compliance profiles for regulated markets, and the trust signals that gambling SEO rewards in 2026. Import the demo, pick your market, add your operators — and publish.
Homepage template
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Unlimited layouts, no page builder required
Add, move and remove sections in the block editor. Fifteen affiliate blocks and thirty-seven ready-made patterns mean a casino, sportsbook or crypto homepage is a few clicks away.
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Comparison tables that sort and filter
Choose the columns — bonus, wagering, licence, payment methods, rating, call to action — and let readers sort and filter in the browser, without a layout shift.
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Bonuses with the terms beside them
A dedicated bonus post type with codes, wagering, minimum deposit and expiry dates. Bonus lists and tables always show the terms next to the amount, because that is what regulators and readers expect.
Casino review template
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Verification your readers can see
Every review carries its evidence: the date it was last verified, whether a deposit was tested, the withdrawal time observed and who tested it. That is the “Experience” in E-E-A-T, on the page.
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Licence badges that link to the register
Licences are a taxonomy with a badge image and a verification URL. A click on the UKGC or MGA badge lands on the regulator’s own register, not on a decorative logo.
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Structured data that still counts
Google no longer shows star ratings for gambling queries, so PokaTheme ships the schema that still matters — Organization, BreadcrumbList, WebSite, FAQPage and Person — for entity understanding and AI search.
Operators, bonuses and affiliate links
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An operator data model built for the niche
Eight taxonomies on every operator — software, deposit and withdrawal methods, licences, languages, currencies, devices, parent group — plus operator-to-operator relationships for head-to-head pages. Filter, compare and list by any of them.
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Developer friendly, upgrade safe
Operator and bonus fields bind straight into core blocks. Extend with hooks or the included child theme. A v4 compatibility layer keeps your old blocks, template tags and hooks working through the whole 5.x line, and the migration tool shows a dry run before it touches anything.
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Independent affiliate links
Affiliate links live apart from the reviews, so one tracking link can serve many reviews, bonuses and tables — and changing it once changes it everywhere.
What is new in PokaTheme 5
Built for trust, compliance and speed
Every gambling theme has tables and review layouts. None of them has a surface for who rated the casino, how, and when — or for the rules of the market you publish in. PokaTheme 5 has both, and it is measurably the fastest theme in the category.
Trust and compliance, built in
- Compliance profiles — UK, MGA, Ontario, Sweden or generic
- Licence badges that link to the regulator’s register
- Affiliate disclosure block with automatic #ad on paid links
- Responsible gambling hub — helplines by country, self-exclusion, deposit limits
- Freshness dashboard — stale reviews and expired bonuses, flagged for you
Pick your market and the theme enforces its furniture: the age statement, responsible-gambling links, licence display, #ad tagging and terms beside every bonus. If a bonus amount renders without its terms, the editor tells you before you publish.
This is tooling for your compliance team, not legal advice — every rule is a configurable default your team signs off.
Lighthouse 100/100 on mobile — measured, not promised
Our test pages score 100 on mobile, with LCP under two seconds and a layout shift of 0.002 — running no caching or optimisation plugin at all. Every release is checked in CI against a page-weight budget too, so a stylesheet that stops being split, or a library that creeps back in, fails the build.
- No jQuery on the front end: 42 KB gzipped off every page
- Per-component CSS — a page loads only what its blocks use
- Native WebP and srcset, no converter plugin
- Self-hosted fonts with a metric-matched fallback, so text never jumps
65–80% of gambling traffic is mobile. That is why the mobile score is the one we lead with.
Dark mode and eight style variations
Dark mode is a switch in the header, not a second website to maintain. It follows the visitor’s device by default, survives full-page caching, and lands before the first paint — no flash of the wrong theme.
Style variations — Sportsbook, Crypto, Poker and Slots, and the four behind the demos, Slots Dark, Sports Betting, Crypto Exchange and Poker Room — are a layer over your own settings. Trying one costs nothing, your brand colour keeps winning, and every text-and-background pair a visitor reads passes WCAG AA.
Instant review search
Drop the search block or shortcode anywhere and readers search your whole review archive as they type, with autocomplete and results that appear without a page load. Pair it with category buttons and the homepage answers “find the casino for me” in one section.
Geolocation included
Geolocation ships inside the theme — no extra plugin to buy. Show different operators, bonuses or notices per country in every table and list block, or with a shortcode.
The same engine powers v5’s country and market landing pages and feeds restricted-country data straight from each operator’s profile, so a visitor in a market an operator does not serve never sees its offer.
Gutenberg first — and it works with Elementor, Divi and Beaver Builder
PokaTheme 5 is built on Gutenberg blocks and WordPress 7 block bindings, so operator ratings, bonus values and licence badges are edited with core controls — no theme-specific settings panels to learn. Prefer Elementor, Beaver Builder or Divi? Every affiliate block is also available as a shortcode, so the same tables, lists and bonus boxes drop into any builder.
Free installation with demo content
Buy the theme and we install it for you, demo content included, at no extra cost.
After your purchase, send us a message through the contact page with your WordPress login. We install PokaTheme 5, import the demo you choose, set the compliance profile for your market and hand it back ready to fill with your own operators and bonuses. Usually within one working day.
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Services
SEO for casino affiliate sites
Lost traffic after a Google update, or stuck below the keywords that pay? The team that builds PokaTheme fixes the technical and structural SEO of casino, sports betting and poker affiliate sites on WordPress — built with PokaTheme or any other theme.
Technical SEO & Core Web Vitals
Core Web Vitals measured on real visitors, render-blocking code, caching, sitemaps, canonicals, redirect chains and hreflang — fixed by WordPress specialists.
What’s included in technical SEO & Core Web VitalsCleanup & money-page rebuild
Thin pages and crawl waste cleaned up with your sign-off, then an architecture, internal links and templates that point authority at reviews, bonus and comparison pages.
What’s included in the cleanup & money-page rebuildMonthly SEO
Search Console checks, Google update tracking, rank tracking and optimisation work every month, with a clear report of what changed. No lock-in.
What’s included in monthly SEONo fixed packages — every site is quoted individually after the free audit.
See all servicesEverything a gambling affiliate site needs
Operators, not just “reviews”
Casinos, sportsbooks, poker rooms, exchanges, brokers — one operator post type with eight taxonomies, relationships and verification fields, named for whatever your niche calls them.
Bonuses as first-class content
Welcome, reload, free spins, no-deposit, cashback — each with code, wagering, minimum deposit, expiry and its own tracking link. Expired offers are flagged automatically.
Gambling SEO built in: schema, speed, clean markup
Entity schema, author credentials, a “how we rate” template and per-review testing evidence — the E-E-A-T signals YMYL gambling content is judged on. Works alongside Yoast SEO.
Separate affiliate links
Tracking links live apart from operators and bonuses, so one link serves many placements and a change in one place updates every table, list and button.
Cloaked, tagged affiliate URLs
Affiliate destinations stay hidden until the click and redirect on your own domain. With a compliance profile on, paid links are marked #ad and sponsored automatically.
Customizer, theme.json, child theme
Colours, typography, header styles, banners and labels in the Customizer; style variations in theme.json; a child theme and 130+ hooks when you need to go further.
Plugin compatibility
Slots Launch for free-play games, Yoast, WPML, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms and the usual suspects. Tested on WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3.
37 patterns, ready to insert
Eleven sections that suit any site, plus three written for each of casino, sportsbook, crypto, poker, slots, esports, forex and VPN — an opening section, a ranked listing and a set of questions. Browse by purpose, filter by niche, insert.
Speed you can prove
No bloat from a general-purpose theme: no jQuery, per-component CSS, native WebP, reserved dimensions on every logo and table so nothing shifts. Lighthouse budgets enforced on every release.
- 15 affiliate blocks, all available as shortcodes
- Comparison table block, sortable and filterable
- Bonus single, list and table blocks
- Payment-method, country and head-to-head page templates
- Author profile and “how we rate” templates
- Responsible-gambling hub with helplines by country
- Age gate that reserves its space — zero layout shift
- Slots Launch integration: thousands of free-play games
- Structured data for reviews, FAQs, authors and organisation
- Ajax review search with autocomplete
- One-click migration from PokaTheme 4, with a dry run
- v4 compatibility layer for the whole 5.x line
- Child theme included
- WordPress Multisite support
- Self-hosted fonts, no Google Fonts requests
- Translation ready, WPML compatible
- Multiple banner areas with per-context switches
- Footer widget area with multiple columns
- Left or right sidebar, or none
- Automated tests on every release: PHP, JavaScript, three viewports
Block editor
The first affiliate theme built on blocks — now with block bindings
PokaTheme was block-based when the rest of the category was still shipping shortcodes. Version 5 goes one step further: operator and bonus data binds directly into core WordPress blocks, so a rating, a bonus value or a licence badge is styled with the same controls as any paragraph.
Fifteen affiliate blocks to choose from
Operator tables, lists, featured cards, carousels and single boxes; bonus singles, lists and tables; the comparison table; search; FAQ; featured videos; cover, box-text and buttons. Every one of them also works as a shortcode.
Import the demo, then rearrange. Nothing on the page is locked to a template.
Style variations first, a demo when you want one
Other themes ask you to import a whole demo to get one section. PokaTheme 5 ships eight style variations you switch in a click, plus 37 block patterns — eleven universal, three written for each of eight niches — that you insert one section at a time. One site, any niche, no reimport. Starting a new site instead? Import one of the five demos.
A freshness dashboard that runs your week
Bonus pages should be checked weekly, reviews every one to three months, listicles every three to six. PokaTheme 5 keeps score: one screen lists what is stale, and expired bonuses flag themselves. Documented SEO advice, turned into a to-do list.
Build whatever you want with live editing
Licence & pricing
PokaTheme 5 pricing and licence FAQ
What do I get for 58€?
PokaTheme 5, the child theme, the demo packages and documentation, use on unlimited domains you own, and one year of updates and support. And a free installation with demo content on your site, if you want it.
What happens after the first year?
Your sites keep working, forever — nothing switches off. To keep receiving new features, fixes and support, renew for 30€ a year. Let it lapse and you can renew later; there is no penalty.
I already own PokaTheme 4. What does v5 cost me?
Nothing. Every existing customer, from v4 all the way back, downloads PokaTheme 5 from their account with a fresh year of updates included. After that year the same 30€ renewal applies. The migration tool moves your reviews, links and settings across, with a dry run first.
How does the free setup work?
Buy, then contact us with a WordPress admin login for your site. We install the theme, import the demo you choose and set the compliance profile for your market. Usually done within a working day.
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Why wait? Launch your casino affiliate site this week.
PokaTheme is developed with real affiliate marketers and used on 2000+ gambling sites. Casino, poker, sportsbook or crypto — import a demo, choose your market, add your operators, and spend your time on content and links instead of on code.
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Try it first: browse the five live demos, or log in to the live dashboard demo (guest / guest) and click around the admin before you buy.