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RPB Chessboard

This plugin allows you to typeset and display chess diagrams and PGN-encoded chess games.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version8.1.7
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 7.1 · PHP 7.2
Directory statusactive
Last directory update25 Sept 20261mo ago
Active installations1K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.8 / 5 from 20 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records RPB Chessboard version 8.1.7 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

RPB Chessboard allows you to typeset and display chess games and diagrams in the posts and pages of your WordPress blog, using the standard FEN and PGN notations.

Links

  • Ask for help or report a problem
  • Documentation & examples
  • GitHub repository (source code)

Features

  • Customizable aspect for the chessboards (orientation, size, etc…).
  • Support comments and sub-variations in PGN-encoded games.
  • Support HTML formatting in PGN comments.
  • Support several chess variants:
  • Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess).
  • Antichess.
  • Horde chess.
  • Colored square and arrow markers.
  • Integration with the Gutenberg post/page editor.
  • Multi-language support.

If you encounter some bugs with this plugin, or if you wish to get new features in the future versions, you can report/propose them in the GitHub bug tracker.

If you are interested in translating this plugin into your language, please contact the author.

g. specific feature, advanced customization…) can be realized by the author as a paid service. If you need to have such custom developments for your website, please feel free to contact the author.

Credits

Author

Yoann Le Montagner

Contributors

Marek Śmigielski, Paul Schreiber, Adam Silverstein, Paolo Fantozzi.

Translators

Jan Jílek (Czech), Markus Liebelt (German), Yoann Le Montagner (English and French), Martin Frith (Spanish), Atilla Szvetlik (Hungarian), Andrea Cuccarini (Italian), Ivan Deceuninck (Dutch), Dawid Ziółkowski (Polish), Rewbenio Frota (Brazilian Portuguese), Sergey Baravicov (Russian), Ali Nihat Yazıcı (Turkish).

Graphic resources

L. Burnett, who shares it under the [CC-BY-SA] license on Wikimedia Commons; user Antonsusi has also contributed to this work. Piecesets Celtic, Eyes, Fantasy, Skulls and Spatial have been created by Maurizio Monge, who makes them freely available for chess programs.

Colorsets Coral, Dusk, Emerald, Marine, Sandcastle and Wheat have been proposed in this blog post by Gorgonian.

The author would like to thank all these people for their highly valuable work.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • chess
  • chessboard
  • fen
  • games
  • pgn
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 7.1 · PHP 7.2
Update activity25 Sept 20261mo ago

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Recent tracked changes

Version8.1.68.1.7
WordPress compatibility7.17.1.2
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