About this plugin
Celebrity Death Pool displays a compact, customizable box listing the most quoted
celebrities of the week, ranked by their weekly score, with a call-to-action
button linking back to the official site.
Features:
- Single shortcode [celebrity_quotes] plus a classic widget.
- Settings page (Settings → Celebrity Death Pool) to configure everything without code:
number of celebrities (1–20), title, subtitle, list label, button text,
background and accent colors, link behavior (same/new tab) and destination link.
- Built-in “API connection status” panel and a “Clear cache” button to diagnose
connectivity at a glance.
- Available in English and Italian.
External service
This plugin relies on a third-party service to retrieve the ranking data:
the Celebrity Death Pool public API.
- What it is and why it is used: the plugin fetches the weekly celebrity quotes
(name, score, image and id) to render the leaderboard. Without this call the
box has no data to display.
- When data is sent: on the front end (cached for 10 minutes) and when you open
the plugin settings page (a live, uncached test).
- Endpoint contacted: https://www.celebritydeathpool.co.uk/api/celebrity/quotes
- Data transmitted: a standard HTTP GET request. The request User-Agent
header includes your site’s home URL so the service can identify the caller.
No personal data of your visitors is sent.
- Service provider, terms and privacy policy:
- Site: https://www.celebritydeathpool.co.uk
- Terms: https://celebritydeathpool.co.uk/terms-of-use.html
- Privacy: https://celebritydeathpool.co.uk/privacy-policy-gdpr.html