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Plugin Description
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.
Screenshots
Chess diagram in a post with the Twenty Fifteen theme.
Chess game in a post with the Twenty Fifteen theme.
When clicking on a move, a popup frame is displayed, showing the corresponding position.
A navigation board can be added beside the move list.
Chess games can have comments, sub-variations and diagrams. HTML formatting in text comments is supported.
When the plugin is installed and activated, two new blocks become available in the Gutenberg post/page editor.
Chess diagram block in the Gutenberg post/page editor.
Chess game block in the Gutenberg post/page editor.
