Another minor release. Sorry for the extended delay on a major issue, but I’ve been busy nursing my fiancée back to health, and getting married. Anyways, this release primarily fixes authentication issues primarily seen when using boards inserted by the editor button. It turns out this problem was due to the wpautop() function in WordPress [...] » Read more

Another minor release. What’s new: Some compatibility issues related to user logins under WordPress 2.7 have been fixed (I think this only affected the playability of live boards). A single blog post containing multiple live boards should now work correctly – moves are posted to the post under the correct board, and multiple players should no longer [...] » Read more

Hopefully a minor release. What’s new: The plugin can now be installed one subdirectory lower – i.e. if you unzip while in the WordPress plugins directory and leave all the files where they are, it should still work correctly. This should make installation simpler. PGN comments are now supported. They will be shown in the status field [...] » Read more

Time for a new release! The previous release was 1.0.3, in case you were wondering. Anyways, new features: Long overdue: the game history can now be browsed. There are new navigation buttons, and the gamelog can be clicked on directly to display the board as of that move. Check it out on the examples page. There is [...] » Read more

This is a bug fix release. When playing a closed game, the plugin no longer uses PHP sessions. This avoids problems with PHP configurations where output buffering is disabled (thus preventing cookies from being set correctly in the plugin) – this would manifest as an inability to post a move in a closed game. Note: this [...] » Read more

Another new release!. Here’s the changelist: Full support for Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) has been added via the FEN tag. This allows for arbitrary positioning of pieces on the board. Fischer Random Chess (aka Chess960) is now supported. You must specify the opening layout via a FEN tag. The castling rules specific to this variant are handled correctly. Capablanca [...] » Read more

A new release, fairly minor. Here’s what’s changed: Now compiled with Google Web Toolkit 1.4 Release Candidate. This automatically fixes the issue whereby viewers can get to your blog from different addresses (i.e. http://levork.org instead of http://www.levork.org) fail to see the chess board due to the Google Web Toolkit’s enforcement of the Single Origin Policy. [...] » Read more

I think it’s ready for release! Here is the Chess By Blog blurb page. Here’s the download – ChessByBlog-1.0.0.zip, 212 KiB. Please post any questions or issues in the comments. Happy chess playing! [...] » Read more

The maximization of the data-ink ratio of Tufte didn’t last very long. For the new theme I decided to look for inspiration in posters from the turn of the 20th century. I found it in one from 1901 advertising Fry’s Cocoa. (Coincidentally, our cocoa of choice growing up; I’m not such a fan nowadays.) The [...] » Read more

Switched over for only a couple of days and I’m already annoyed. By default, Wordpress pings on every edit of a published post. Given that I have 300+ published posts which I need to start categorizing, and changing categories is an edit, that’s potentially a lot of pings in a short interval; and some of the [...] » Read more