Feature: choose start position
Version 1.0.117 (Februar, 2019) has added support for showing only the last n number of moves . This is done using the new attribute “start”. This feature is supported for the “pgn” shortcode, and for single...
Category: Tutorials
Theme Builder
Version 1.0.79 of WordPressChess PRO is available with a custom Theme Builder. This feature let you create your custom theme which you can use by * Setting it as default theme or * by...
Rated tactics for Logged on Users
From version 1.0.68 of WordPressChess, tactics for logged on users is available. This features makes it possible for you to show tactic puzzles to your logged on users. ELO is also calculated based on...
PGN special codes
Support for special tags in the PGN has now been added to WordPressChess. These tags are added as comments in the pgn. This feature is supported for the The special tags are added inside...
Game viewer – computer mode
With WordPressChess, you can use the comp_toggle=1 attribute to play StockfishJS from any position. This attribute adds the computer button too the button bar as you can see below(right button). When you click this...
Display Standings tables
In addition to displaying chess boards, puzzles etc, you can also use WordPressChess to show leaderboards/standings for a tournament. The leaderboards are automatically calculated by WordPressChess from the games in your database. To render...
Puzzles – Find Pinned Pieces
With WordPressChess, you can display training puzzles where users has to identify pinned pieces on the chess board. You can see this in action on the board below. Pinned Pieces puzzles are created with...
Tactics with the [pgn] shortcode
With WordPressChess, you can display tactics board for a single game using the shortcode. Example: You can see the result to the left. The PGN is inserted between the start and end of the...
Override CSS
WordPressChess comes with a default layout. We try to inherit as much as possible from your WordPress theme, but sometimes it might be suitable to override some css rules. Below is a list of...
the pgn shortcode
In this article, we will see how we can use the pgn shorttag to render a game from pgn on your WordPressChess enabled site. The pgn shortcode: This is an example of the shortcode: The...
Opening Training
In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the tactics feature of WordPressChess to show an opening trainer at your WordPress chess site. Step 1 – Import pgn The first step is...
Play Computer
With WordPressChess(dhtmlchess.com for WordPress), you can play games against StockfishJS in your web browser. The short tag which you use in your post is: The theme attribute is optional for overriding the default theme selected for...