chess game viewer

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  gmkraai · Member · Dec 6, 2013 at 5:25 pm

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  I want to embed a chess game viewer. I’ve tried everything! WordPress never let’s me use it, and will take it away if I hit save draft. It would be ideal if I could embed this code:
  <iframe border=”0″ frameborder=”0″ allowtransparency=”true” width=”574″ height=”434″ src=”http://www.chess.com/emboard?id=1759342″></iframe>
  Because I am .com I cannot use plugins. Have spent nearly 10 hours on this issue. Considering tearing down my site to start somewhere else anew. Please help!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Dec 7, 2013 at 10:07 pm

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  Hi there,

  Unfortunately, it is not possible to use iframes on WordPress.com, for security reasons. Iframes can only be installed on self-hosted WordPress blogs. If you are wondering how WordPress.com differs from WordPress.org, this support article explains the distinction:

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  You can learn more about what code is allowed on WordPress.com: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code

  Sorry we aren’t able to accommodate your request. If you have any more questions about this, or anything else, please let me know, and I will do my best to help.

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  gmkraai · Member · Dec 11, 2013 at 7:29 pm

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  So, given that I cannot use iframe and cannot use a plugin what can I use? Do you have any suggestions?
  It seems so odd that I pay to have a .com address, but then cannot do hardly anything because I made that choice. Surely I’m not the only one with this problem.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Dec 12, 2013 at 1:01 am

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  So, given that I cannot use iframe and cannot use a plugin what can I use? Do you have any suggestions?

  No problem. For your needs, a self-hosted WordPress site is a great fit, and we do a lot to make it easy to migrate the content you have here on WordPress.com.

  This guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

  Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

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  gmkraai · Member · Dec 17, 2013 at 12:57 am

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  This situation sucks; inconvenience on all sides.
  Please let me know when wordpress.com comes up with its own chess game viewer.
  Perhaps someone else will have a different solution, someday – to this very basic problem which was solved on other sites circa 1997.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Dec 18, 2013 at 1:27 am

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  I can understand where you are coming from. I enjoy playing chess as well.

  I am going to have my engineering team take a closer look at adding chess.com to our whitelist. I will update you when I know more.

  Thanks!