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Chessgame Shizzle

Chessgame Shizzle is a nice way to integrate chessgames into your WordPress website. Ideal for chess clubs, your chess blog, or any chess related webs …

By Marcel Pol·Pgn·Free
4.7(3 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 2 months ago
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As of April 2026, Chessgame Shizzle is a WordPress pgn plugin with 100 active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.1+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: RPB Chessboard.

4.7/53 reviews
100active installs
14K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017

Overview

Chessgame Shizzle is a nice way to integrate chessgames into your WordPress website. Ideal for chess clubs, your chess blog, or any chess related website.
Editors and guests alike can add chessgames in PGN format through a frontend form. All chessgames are available in a custom post type as a single post with an archive list and taxonomies, it couldn’t be more simple. Included widgets give you many ways to display your chessgames.

Current features include:

  • List view and single view for chessgames as a WordPress post.
  • Easy to use form on the frontend to add a chessgame.
  • Simple and clean admin interface that integrates seamlessly into WordPress admin.
  • JavaScript enabled game viewer (pgn4web).
  • Several widgets to display latest game, featured game or a list of recent games.
  • Tactics Les…
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Ratings & Reviews

4.73 reviews
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3 ★
0
2 ★
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1 ★
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Compatibility

WordPress4.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.0+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.3.4

  • 2025-07-17
  • Verify Nonces correctly.
  • Sanitize more output.
  • Use plugin_dir_path instead of WP_PLUGIN_DIR.
  • Fix logic in iframe-extended when creating an image.

…and 2 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Marcel PolMarcel PolteodorcatteodorcatDjangoDjango
Plugin Info
Version
1.3.4
Last Updated
Jan 10, 2026
WP Requires
4.1+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.0+
Active Installs
100
Downloads
14K+
Added
Mar 27, 2017
Business
Free

Tags

pgnchesspgn4webchessgamechessgames

Developer

M
Marcel Pol
18 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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