RPB Chessboard is a WordPress app, with a 4.8 average rating from 20 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
RPB Chessboard is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by yo35. With a rating of 4.8★ from 20 reviews.
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RPB Chessboard is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 20 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.8★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by yo35 — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (20) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How RPB Chessboard works
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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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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.
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.
Keyword rankings
RPB Chessboard ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- 1.contactRank #804
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Frequently asked questions
What is RPB Chessboard?
RPB Chessboard is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.8-star rating from 20 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by yo35.