內容簡介
LNC Chessboard 是一款專為棋手、教練、俱樂部及賽事組織者設計的 WordPress 外掛，能輕鬆在網站上顯示來自 Chess.com 和 Lichess 的即時棋手資料，提供使用者最新的棋手資訊與成績。
【主要功能】
• 支援 Chess.com 和 Lichess 玩家資料顯示
• 自動更新棋手評分及戰績
• 簡單的短碼嵌入方式
• 美觀的棋手資料卡片設計
• 無需 API 金鑰即可使用
外掛標籤
開發者團隊
原文外掛簡介
LNC Chessboard is a WordPress plugin made for chess content creators and players.
Embed interactive, themed chess game boards and live Chess.com and Lichess player stats, using a shortcode or block.
🟢 Available Now: Game Viewer & Analysis
A modern way to present chess games on WordPress. The Game Viewer turns any PGN into a clean, interactive chessboard embedded in your posts and pages. Paste PGN text or upload a .pgn file, and your readers can replay the game move by move on a professional board, right inside your article.
Highlights:
* A modern way to show a chess game — no static diagrams or screenshots. Readers click through the moves, jump to any position, and open it in Lichess analysis.
* New board colours — five ready-made themes (brown, blue, green, grey, and LNC purple), plus custom colours so the board matches your site’s design.
* Multilingual — the viewer, its controls, and the editor screens are translated into German, French, Russian, Polish, Turkish, and Brazilian Portuguese, and switch automatically with your site’s language.
What the Game Viewer does:
* Renders a themed, interactive board from any PGN (five predefined themes — brown, blue, green, grey, and LNC purple — plus a custom option where you pick your own light and dark square colours to match your site).
* Specific positions — showcase a single position instead of a full game: set it up on an interactive board or paste a FEN, then draw arrows and highlight squares to point out ideas.
* Autoplay — a play/pause control (and autoplay/speed options) steps through the game hands-free.
* Clean embeds — optionally hide the move list, the navigation controls, and/or the analysis actions to show just the board, for a lighter look in a post.
* Full replay controls — jump to the start or end, step forward and backward, and click any move in the notation to jump straight to that position.
* Keyboard friendly — use the arrow keys to step through moves and Home/End to jump, with screen-reader announcements of each move.
* Position analysis — open the exact current position in Lichess analysis, copy the position’s FEN, or send the whole game to Lichess with one click.
* Save games once and reuse them anywhere — each saved game gets a simple shortcode and a native block.
Two ways to display a game:
1. Paste PGN directly into the shortcode or block for a one-off game.
2. Save a game under LNC Chessboard → Chess Games, then embed it by id and reuse it across any number of posts and pages. Players, event, date, and result are read automatically from the PGN headers.
Example shortcodes:
[lncchess_game id=”123″]
[lncchess_game pgn=”1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6″ theme=”green” orientation=”black”]
Or add the Chess Game block in the WordPress block editor, pick a saved game or paste PGN, and choose a theme and orientation from the sidebar.
🟢 Available Now: Player Profiles
The Player Profiles module lets you embed always-fresh chess player profiles anywhere on your WordPress site using a simple shortcode. Each profile is fetched live from the platform’s public API, so your visitors always see the most up-to-date ratings, win/loss/draw record, titles, and account details.
Two layouts:
* Stats dashboard (default) — a full player dashboard with charts: win rate (or activity) by time control, ratings by format, a results breakdown, and peak vs current rating, plus summary tiles for peak rating, total games, win rate, FIDE, and more.
* Compact card — the small summary card, ideal for sidebars. Add layout="card" to the shortcode.
chess.com Player Profiles
Connect your WordPress site directly to chess.com. Display a player’s avatar, country, title (GM, IM, FM, etc.), bullet/blitz/rapid/daily ratings with their peaks, wins, losses, and draws per time control, tactics and Puzzle Rush scores, follower count, and join date. The LNC Chessboard chess.com integration uses the official chess.com Published Data API, which is completely free and requires no API key.
Lichess Player Profiles
Bring Lichess player data into your WordPress pages with the same ease. The Lichess integration displays the player’s title, all time-control ratings (bullet, blitz, rapid, classical, chess960, and more), games played per format, W/L/D record, bio, FIDE rating (if set), online status, playing time, and patron status. The LNC Chessboard Lichess integration uses the official Lichess public API, which is free and open.
How Player Profiles works on your WordPress site:
1. Go to LNC Chessboard → Player Profiles in your WordPress admin.
2. Choose chess.com or Lichess, enter a username, and pick a layout (dashboard or compact card) and a theme (dark or light).
3. Click Preview Card to see exactly how it will look.
4. Copy the generated shortcode and paste it into any WordPress post, page, or widget.
Example shortcodes:
[lncchess_profile source=”chesscom” username=”hikaru”]
[lncchess_profile source=”lichess” username=”DrNykterstein”]
[lncchess_profile source=”lichess” username=”Magnus” theme=”light”]
[lncchess_profile source=”chesscom” username=”hikaru” layout=”card”]
Chess coaches can use Player Profiles to showcase their own credentials on their WordPress coaching site. Chess clubs can display member profiles on their WordPress club page. Tournament organisers can highlight top players ahead of an event.
🌍 Multilingual Support
LNC Chessboard ships with translations for German, French, Russian, Polish, Turkish, and Brazilian Portuguese. Set your site language under Settings → General and the plugin’s admin screens, the Game Viewer, the block editor, and the player dashboards switch automatically. Standard chess terms such as Bullet, Blitz, Rapid, PGN, FEN, and FIDE stay in English, as on most chess sites.
Want LNC Chessboard in your language? You can help translate it on translate.wordpress.org.
Why LNC Chessboard?
Chess is one of the fastest-growing online communities, and WordPress powers over 40% of all websites. Yet until now, chess clubs, coaches, and content creators have had to rely on clunky embeds and disconnected tools to bring chess content into WordPress. LNC Chessboard changes that.
Built by Late Night Chess — a team of chess enthusiasts and WordPress developers — LNC Chessboard is designed from the ground up for the chess community. Every feature is purpose-built for chess use cases: chess club management, chess coaching, chess tournament administration, and chess content creation. No bloat, no irrelevant features — just chess, inside WordPress.
Shortcode Reference
[lncchess_profile] — Display a live player profile dashboard or card.
Attribute
Values
Default
Description
source
chesscom, lichess
chesscom
The platform to fetch the profile from.
username
Any valid username
(required)
The player’s username on the platform.
layout
dashboard, card
dashboard
Full stats dashboard with charts, or the compact card.
theme
dark, light
dark
Visual theme of the profile.
[lncchess_game] — Display an interactive PGN game viewer.
Attribute
Values
Default
Description
id
A saved game’s post ID
(none)
Embed a saved game or position from your library.
pgn
PGN text
(none)
Inline PGN for a replayable game.
fen
A FEN string
(none)
Inline FEN for a single-position diagram.
theme
brown, blue, green, gray, lnc
brown / saved
Board colour theme. Overrides a saved game’s theme.
orientation
white, black
white / saved
Which side is on the bottom of the board.
light-color
A hex colour (e.g. #ffffff)
(none)
Custom light-square colour. Overrides the theme.
dark-color
A hex colour (e.g. #9b7fd4)
(none)
Custom dark-square colour. Overrides the theme.
autoplay
true, false
false / saved
Play the game automatically on load.
speed
slow, normal, fast
normal / saved
Autoplay step speed.
show-moves
true, false
true / saved
Show the move notation list (full games).
show-controls
true, false
true / saved
Show the start / prev / play / next / end buttons.
show-analysis
true, false
true / saved
Show the Analyze / Copy FEN / Open-game buttons.
size
A number, e.g. 360
auto / saved
Board width/height in pixels (square; 200–1200).
Provide id (a saved game or position), pgn (a one-off game), or fen (a one-off position). When embedding by id, the saved theme, orientation, colours, and autoplay settings are used unless you override them. Set both light-color and dark-color to use a custom board colour scheme (this takes precedence over the named theme). The lnc theme pairs white squares with LNC purple (#9b7fd4).
Example with custom colours and autoplay:
[lncchess_game id=”123″ light-color=”#ffffff” dark-color=”#9b7fd4″ autoplay=”true” speed=”fast”]
Example of a single position diagram:
[lncchess_game fen=”r1bqkbnr/pppp1ppp/2n5/4p3/4P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq – 2 3″]
Example of a board with just the replay buttons (no move list):
[lncchess_game id=”123″ show-moves=”false”]
Example with a custom board size:
[lncchess_game id=”123″ size=”320″]
External APIs
LNC Chessboard connects to the following external services to fetch chess player data. These connections are only made when a Player Profile shortcode is present on a page, or when a user previews a profile in the WordPress admin.
1. chess.com Published Data API
* Service: chess.com
* URL: https://api.chess.com/pub/
* Purpose: Fetches public player profile data including username, avatar, title, ratings, win/loss/draw record, country, followers, and join date.
* Data sent: The chess.com username entered in the shortcode attribute. No personal data from your WordPress site or its visitors is transmitted.
* Authentication: None required. The chess.com Published Data API is fully public.
* Privacy Policy: https://www.chess.com/legal/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://www.chess.com/legal/user-agreement
2. Lichess Public API
* Service: Lichess (lichess.org)
* URL: https://lichess.org/api/
* Purpose: Fetches public player profile data including username, title, ratings across all time controls, win/loss/draw record, bio, FIDE rating, online status, playing time, and patron status.
* Data sent: The Lichess username entered in the shortcode attribute. No personal data from your WordPress site or its visitors is transmitted.
* Authentication: None required. The Lichess public API is free and open.
* Privacy Policy: https://lichess.org/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://lichess.org/terms-of-service
Caching: All profile API responses are cached on your WordPress server for 5 minutes using WordPress transients. This keeps your chess pages loading fast while ensuring data stays fresh.
3. Lichess Analysis / Import (Game Viewer)
* Service: Lichess (lichess.org)
* URL: https://lichess.org/analysis/ and https://lichess.org/import
* Purpose: Optional, user-initiated handoff from the Game Viewer. When a visitor clicks “Analyze this position” or “Open full game on Lichess”, their browser opens Lichess in a new tab with the current FEN or the game’s PGN.
* Data sent: Only the chess position (FEN) or game (PGN) being viewed, and only when the visitor clicks the button. These requests are made by the visitor’s browser, not your WordPress server. No automatic or background requests are made.
* Privacy Policy: https://lichess.org/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://lichess.org/terms-of-service
Bundled Libraries
LNC Chessboard bundles these open-source JavaScript libraries locally (no external CDN is used at runtime):
chess.js (BSD-2-Clause) — PGN parsing and chess rules. Loaded only on pages with a game viewer.
chessground (GPL-3.0-or-later) — the board UI developed for Lichess. Loaded only on pages with a game viewer.
Chart.js 4.6.1 (MIT) — the charts in the player stats dashboard. Loaded only on pages with a dashboard-layout player profile, and on the Player Profiles admin page for the live preview.
Privacy Policy
LNC Chessboard does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data about your WordPress site’s visitors.
When a Player Profile shortcode is rendered, LNC Chessboard makes a server-side request from your WordPress server to chess.com or Lichess. The only data sent to these external services is the chess username specified in the shortcode — no visitor IP addresses, cookies, or personal information are included in these requests.
Fetched profile data is stored temporarily in your WordPress database as a transient cache for up to 5 minutes, then automatically deleted and refreshed. This data is entirely public information sourced from the respective chess platform’s public API.
For more information on how chess.com and Lichess handle data, refer to their respective privacy policies linked in the External APIs section above.
