ChessPairings — Tournament Showcase

org into your WordPress site.

org. The plugin simply displays your tournament data on your WP site, using native HTML that inherits your theme’s styles.

What you can do with the plugin:

• Show standings with tiebreaks

• Show pairings by round

• Show the registered players list (or teams + roster for team tournaments)

• Show the tournament announcement / regulations

• Add a “Register” button linking to the online registration form

• Publish a calendar of your tournaments or the community calendar (by federation)

• List all your tournaments with cards — status, dates, registration button

• Display a full tournament page with tabs (info / registered / pairings / standings)

• Select a tournament by name in Gutenberg, with a real editor preview

• Automatically show the current, next or most recently completed tournament

• Show the published round schedule and progress

• Search and sort frontend tables, print views and optionally auto-refresh them

• Download tournament dates in iCalendar format

• Keep showing the last valid data during temporary API outages

Advantages over an iframe or a screenshot:

• Native HTML that inherits the theme’s styles (fonts, colors, spacing)

• SEO-friendly (indexable content, not in an iframe)

• Mobile responsive by default

• Automatic caching to avoid overloading the API (configurable 30–300s)

org and a free API key generated from your profile. The SaaS platform is completely free.

Languages: the plugin is translated in 7 languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Czech.

Available Shortcodes

Individual tournaments:

• [chesspairings_torneo id="N"] — full tournament page with tabs

• [chesspairings_classifica id="N"] — standings only

• [chesspairings_abbinamenti id="N" turno="ultimo"] — pairings for a round

• [chesspairings_iscritti id="N"] — registered players list

• [chesspairings_turni id="N"] — published round schedule and progress

• [chesspairings_bando id="N"] — tournament announcement

• [chesspairings_iscriviti id="N"] — registration button

• [chesspairings_tornei] — tournament listing with cards (status, dates, registration)

• [chesspairings_calendario tipo="miei"] — tournament calendar (miei | community)

Team tournaments:

• [chesspairings_torneo_squadre id="N"] — full team tournament page

• [chesspairings_classifica_squadre id="N"] — team standings

• [chesspairings_abbinamenti_squadre id="N" turno="ultimo"] — team pairings

• [chesspairings_squadre id="N"] — teams + roster

• [chesspairings_bando_squadre id="N"] — team tournament announcement

• [chesspairings_iscriviti_squadre id="N"] — team registration button

All shortcodes are also available as the Gutenberg block “ ChessPairings Tournament “, including the tournament list. The block provides a searchable tournament selector, automatic selection modes, advanced filters and a real API preview in the editor.

To keep a page automatically connected to the most relevant event, use for example:

[chesspairings_torneo selezione="automatico" tipo="auto"]<h3>External services</h3>

org/api/v1 ) to retrieve tournament data (standings, pairings, registered players, calendar). All API calls are made server-side from your WordPress installation — no data is sent from your visitors’ browsers.

When data is sent: every time a page containing a ChessPairings shortcode or block is loaded (subject to local caching, configurable 30–300 seconds).

What data is sent: your API key (via Authorization header), the requested tournament ID, and the WordPress site URL (via User-Agent header).

No visitor personal data (IP address, cookies, browser info) is transmitted to the service.

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