Display plugins created by a WordPress user

Discover in this tutorial how to create a plugin that allows to display the plugins created by a WordPress user.

In this tutorial you will get to automatically display the plugins from the WordPress repository created by the WordPress user of your choice.

So, using the dedicated API, you can extract the user’s created plugins and all the associated data (link, author, ratings…), as well as display them as you want.

This would be the final result:

Shall we start?

Steps to display plugins created by a WordPress user

1. Create a shortcode with the WordPress user attribute

Add the following code at the end of functions.php or in your functionality plugin:

With the above code you create a shortcode with the wordpress_id attribute that allows you to indicate the name of the WordPress user. Once the user is defined, you query the plugin API to extract the plugins created by the specified user.

In this example you “paint” the following data:

• Plugin name (with link).
• Rating (indicated with number of stars).
• Number of ratings.
• Author (with link).

Obviously, you can modify what you see fit to display the data you consider convenient.

In the example we are only obtaining the data of 5 endpoints, but with the API, when you make the request for information about a user, you can access all of them:

• name
• slug
• version
• author
• author_profile
• requires
• tested
• requires_php
• requires_plugins
• rating
• ratings
• num_ratings
• support_threads
• support_threads_resolved
• active_installs
• downloaded
• last_updated
• added
• homepage
• short_description
• description
• download link
• tags
• donate_link
• icons

On the other hand, to avoid abusing API calls inside the shortcode, you create and use a transient to cache the result for a week (although you can modify it as you wish). This way you make sure that you don’t make more calls than necessary and the result is displayed immediately.

2. Customize how the plugin list is displayed

Once you have all the functional part you just need to style the plugin listing to display as in the example above.

To do this, add in the style.css file the following lines:

Obviously, you can also modify this to suit your needs.

Above all, remember to replace the URL https://yourwebsite.com/ with the URL of your website.

3. Insert the shortcode where you want

Finally, just type[plugins_autor wordpress_id="wordpress_user"] where you want it to be displayed and change the username to the one you want to display.

This would be an example of the listing that the shortcode would show if I put my WordPress user:

Conclusions

Now you know how to display plugins created by a WordPress user and even choose the data to be displayed.

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