Title: Contributor Highlights
Author: Bueno Consulting
Published: <strong>29, Xunu de 2025</strong>
Last modified: 2, Payares de 2025

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# Contributor Highlights

 By [Bueno Consulting](https://profiles.wordpress.org/buenoconsulting/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/contributor-highlights.1.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/contributor-highlights/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/contributor-highlights/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/contributor-highlights/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/contributor-highlights/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contributor-highlights/)

## Description

Contributor Highlights is a lightweight plugin designed for individuals and organizations
who want to display their WordPress.org contribution journey or highlight the efforts
of others in the WordPress community.

With this plugin, you can easily fetch and present detailed contributor information
from public WordPress.org profiles. The plugin pulls in and displays:

 * Contributor name and avatar
 * Contribution weekly pledge
 * Short biography
 * Contribution badges (e.g., Core Contributor, Plugin Developer, Translation Editor,
   etc.)
 * Meta information such as member since date, location, website, GitHub, employer,
   and job title

Perfect for personal portfolios, agency team pages, or contributor showcases on 
community sites.

This plugin does not require any API keys or manual data entry — just input a WordPress.
org username, and the profile will be automatically rendered in a card format.

Whether you’re celebrating your own WordPress journey or recognizing others, Contributor
Highlights makes it easy to bring open-source contributions front and center.

### External Services

The plugin interacts with the following external services:

 * **WordPress.org Profiles**
    - **Purpose**: To fetch and display contributor profile data within the plugin
      interface.
    - **What is fetched?**: Publicly available data such as display name, avatar,
      badges, and contribution activity.
    - **Authentication**: No authentication or login is required.
    - **Privacy Impact**: The plugin only reads data that is already publicly accessible
      on profiles.wordpress.org. It does not store, share, or transmit this data
      beyond displaying it to site users.

For more information, see [WordPress.org Privacy Policy](https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/).

### Privacy & Data Collection

This plugin does not collect or store any personal data from your website visitors.
It fetches publicly available contributor information from WordPress.org Profiles(
including avatars) without requiring authentication. To improve performance, the
data is temporarily cached and automatically cleared upon deactivation.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Contributor Highlights block in the editor, displaying a profile with block settings
   visible in the sidebar.
 * [[
 * The block inserter in the WordPress editor, demonstrating how to find the Contributor
   Highlights block by typing “/Contributor” in a post or page.
 * [[
 * Block settings panel showing options to configure the Contributor Highlights 
   block, including WordPress.org username and display preferences.
 * [[
 * Front-end view of a Contributor Highlights card on a live page, showing contributor
   avatar, name, bio, contribution badges, and meta information styled within the
   site’s theme.
 * [[
 * Compact version, omitting bio, contributions and badge heading

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   Contributor Highlights

## Installation

 1. Upload the `contributor-highlights` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Use the block editor to add contributor profiles to your posts or pages

## FAQ

### Does this plugin collect any personal data?

No, this plugin does not collect any personal data from your website visitors. It
only temporarily caches publicly available data from WordPress.org profiles to improve
performance.

### What happens to the cached data when I deactivate the plugin?

All cached data is automatically cleared when you deactivate the plugin. No data
remains in your database.

### Does this plugin require any API keys?

No, this plugin does not require any API keys. It uses publicly available data from
WordPress.org profiles.

### Is there a limit to how many profiles I can display?

There are no hard limits, but please be mindful of request frequency to WordPress.
org. The plugin implements a 6-hour cache to help manage requests.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Contributor Highlights” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Bueno Consulting ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/buenoconsulting/)
 *   [ Rolly Bueno ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rollybueno/)

[Translate “Contributor Highlights” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/contributor-highlights)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contributor-highlights/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/contributor-highlights/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/contributor-highlights/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/contributor-highlights/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.0

 * New: Core AI, Playground and Credits Mentor badges
 * Fix: Broken dependencies that block the icons from rendering
 * Fix: Container alignment on column usage

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.0**
 *  Last updated **5 meses ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contributor-highlights/)
 * Tags
 * [badges](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/badges/)[block](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/block/)
   [Contributor](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/contributor/)[profile](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/profile/)
   [wordpress.org](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wordpress-org/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/contributor-highlights/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Bueno Consulting ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/buenoconsulting/)
 *   [ Rolly Bueno ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rollybueno/)

## Support

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