RPB Chessboard

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This plugin allows you to typeset and display chess diagrams and PGN-encoded
chess games in the posts and pages of your WordPress blog.

Author:Yoann Le Montagner (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:6.3
WordPress version tested:6.6.2
Plugin version:8.0.2
Added to WordPress repository:31-10-2013
Last updated:11-08-2024
Rating, %:94
Rated by:19
Plugin URI:https://wordpress.org/plugins/rpb-chessboard/
Total downloads:88 508
Active installs:1 000+
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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.

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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:
  • 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.

Custom developments in relation with RPB Chessboard (e.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

Pieceset CBurnett has been created by Colin M.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.


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