Thanks for your comments. I just want to confirm that my system is now running smotthly after reinstalling the plugin, seems to be a problem on my webspace.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused and by the way: Happy new year

regards,
Peter

Anyway, thanks a bunch for the followup. I tried it in a draft post and yes, it worked perfectly. Now to bug the hell out of my friends and post games I’ve played against them.

You need to wrap your PGN in a DIV tag with a special CSS class before the plugin will render it. Try doing this:

<div class="CBB-board" style="display:hidden;">
your pgn here
</div>

If I understand it correctly simply inserting the pgn into my post body should result in a game board, but instead the only result I get is the pgn in the body. Now, that being said, using the Chess by Blog button from the HTML edit tab will produce a board. So one way works, but not the other.

I think if this can be fixed I could enjoy using this plugin and I think it’s a terrific idea. Feel free to send me an email if you have any testing suggestions or tips to try or need any additional info from me.

I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.7 and the plugin seems to be working fine. Perhaps this is a theme issue: what themes are you guys using?

i would love 2 use ur plugin, unfortunately it´s not working with WordPress 2.7 (no board is shown at all).
So long, greats from Germany.

sorry to hear that the plugin doesn’t work in 2.7. I am a little busy with work and personal issues (family members are sick) but I hope that once my vacation begins (in 10 days) I will be able to devote a good chunk of time to this software, fixing it for WordPress 2.7 shouldn’t be a problem.

I am always looking for ways to improve learning. And also have fun in the process. I am not the chess teacher but I always have enjoyed the game even if I am a terrible player. I am actually the French teacher.

The kids think it’s cool that you work for Pixar.

The kids have responded very well to the chess blog. It is hosted by mindphase and we never had a problem with them.
I just updated wordpress to the latest version, the template is Blue grace By Prelovac. He also has developed a Wall plugin that can act as a pseudo chat room, so the kids leave a comment when they are done with their move and the other player knows it’s time to reload and play. The problem is that WordPress doesn’t allow duplicate comments and there is so many way one can say “your turn”. But even if it’s not ideal we make it work for us and I’ll look if there is a way to allow for duplicate comments until I find a real chat plugin.

The closed games are all in individual posts. All the users have at least suscriber status. 4 of the chess kids are also my students so we tested it in my class and had 3 games all in different posts running at the same time. No problem. Then later in the day, all hell broke loose. The day after it worked again.
We tested with Firefox, Safari and IE. The best browser was Firefox but IE was working all right when it let the kids actually log in.

I did not put all the games in the same post but I can try that one to. I won’t see the kids until Monday and will try again with them.

I went to look at what “comet” is and it would do the trick. A self refreshing board would certainly be nice.

If you want to see the blog I can email you the url.