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yo35 / rpb-chessboard

A WordPress plugin to display chess games and diagrams (using the standard FEN and PGN notations).
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rpb-chessboard/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Multiple games via drop-down menu #93

Open u003f opened 7 years ago

u003f commented 7 years ago

Is there any support for (or any intention to support) displaying an entire PGN file with multiple games? In Embed Chessboard / pgn4web, for example, this is done via a drop-down menu above the game board.

yo35 commented 7 years ago

Hi, This is definitively a suitable feature (there is already a similar request, referenced as #38), that I would like to implement at some point. However I cannot say when the feature will become available.

drgibbon commented 7 years ago

This would be great. At the moment our chess club uses RPB to show selected games, but it would be very nice to have a page that can display the entire PGN database.

drgibbon commented 6 years ago

Just thinking about this, and for larger databases (anything over 40 games maybe) a drop-down menu might not be sufficient. It would be really cool if there were some kind of JavaScript filtering (player search and that kind of thing), but that sounds like a lot of code.

italianplayer commented 6 years ago

hello, we definitely wait for the possibility to have the pgn file with the select menu and being able to display the games of ... [pgn_compat square_size=24 url="http://myurl/game/chessgame.pgn" game='kasparov']

italianplayer commented 5 years ago

Hi, I don't know if you've worked on these features that would make your plugin the best. 1) have the games with the drop-down menu to choose which one to see. 2) call the pgn with the filter on the header fields [pgn_compat url ​​= "http: //myurl/game/chessgame.pgn" numgame = '1'] [pgn_compat url ​​= "http: //myurl/game/chessgame.pgn" player= 'kasp'] [pgn_compat url ​​= "http: //myurl/game/chessgame.pgn" year= '1999']

great thanks

yo35 commented 2 years ago

Several users have been requesting this feature for quite a while now (see also in other issues #38 and #168). Obviously, considering that the goal of the plugin is to allow representation of chess content in WordPress pages/posts, there are some important use-cases that cannot be addressed because of this feature is missing: think especially of publishing the games played in a tournament or an event.

On the other hand, considering that this plugin has been developed on my spare time so far, I've never been able to dedicate enough time to develop this feature. And unfortunately, spare time is not infinitely extensible... ;-)

For this reason, I've decided to launch fund raising campaign on kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yoann-le-montagner/rpb-chessboard-game-list-visualization

The idea is to collect a rather moderate amount of money (1000 EUR), in order to fund a few days of development. Considering the number of active installs of RPB Chessboard, it should be possible to reach this objective if all the people that benefit from the plugin accept to donate a few euros. In return, I undertake to devote the time that needs to be devoted to implement this multiple game feature during this summer (it will be paid-time then, thus more easily allocatable than spare time !).

Thank you beforehand for your contribution.