Chessgame Shizzle
by Marcel Pol · Uncategorized
Also makes 17 other plugins · 81.2K+ installs across the portfolio →
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 …
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Health
A 86/100
Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈150 estimated
Momentum
+1%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Support resolution scores 0/100. Mark more forum threads resolved — the resolved ratio feeds the ranking.
86 health vs 58 average across 25,739 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.6%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 15.5K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Support resolution
Updated 34 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
4.7★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
0 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
To rank higher: Mark more forum threads resolved — the resolved ratio feeds the ranking.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
33
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 25d
3%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 25d
-0.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| chessgame your tag | #1 | #2 | 0 |
| chessgames your tag | #1 | #2 | 0 |
| pgn4web your tag | #2 | #2 | 0 |
| chess your tag | #3 | #4 | 0 |
| pgn your tag | #3 | #2 | 0 |
| chessboard | #5 | #3 | down 1 |
| fen | #6 | #5 | down 1 |
| glotpress | #15 | #17 | up 3 |
| nice permalink | #17 | #19 | 0 |
| concatenate | #19 | #15 | up 1 |
38 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 10 listed. 28 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Your five tags are all earning their place. Each gets you onto page 1 of its own search, so none is worth giving up. “chessboard”, “fen” and “nice permalink” (#5, #6 and #17 untagged) would be the next worth testing if a slot frees up.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 430 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
10mo ago
latest release · v1.3.4 · 10 Jan 2026
25
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2.2 years ago; the previous band took 19 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 18 Nov 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ wingrijdernl5.7y ago
I think it’s a great program for my club website, I just miss the notations on the board. If I could, I would give it more than 9 stars. Freek This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by wingrijdernl.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ turolov5.9y ago
The right plugin for chessfans to share, discuss and analyse beautiful games and combinations with their chessfriends. Works fine. Widgets are useful, any combination can be added from the dropping list in a second and be used as puzzle of the day. Comfortable to go through the games on mobile phones because the moves are under the board while the players’ names and other information are above. This allows you to have just a board and moves on the screen.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ qhorinhalbhand8.9y ago
I use it in order to enable all members of our club to submit their games and archive them. So others can look at them and comentate them. This seems like the only plugin that I have found, that enables exactly this use-case. It is a very good start and I hope that we will see some additions (like direct PGN-Upload for all users, instead of just the Admin) and more possibilities to filter the lists of the games (tags and categories), more display settings and better mobile compatibility 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗
Security history
via Wordfence IntelligenceThe 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (1.3.4). Sites still on an older version should update.
- 2024-11-22 CVE-2024-11446 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.3.0 Patched in 1.3.1
Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.
CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.2
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 7 languages, 3 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
6 of 8 pass · checked 25 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Chessgame Shizzle is a nice way to integrate chessgames into your WordPress website. Ideal for chess clubs,..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("ideal for"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 1 list.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,816 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-08-09 200+ → 100+ down after 567 days in tier
- 2023-01-20 100+ → 200+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2023-01-14 200+ → 100+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2023-01-10 100+ → 200+ up after 98 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 90+ → 100+ up
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Embed Chessboard 500+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B -
RPB Chessboard 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A - P PgnViewerJS 50+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
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pgn-viewer-for-lichess 40+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags - C Chess Game Viewer 30+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
- W WP-ChessFlash 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
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