# Showing the best users in WordPress **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-the-best-users-in-wordpress/305532 **Category:** Support **Tags:** wordpress **Created:** [April 26, 2024, 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-the-best-users-in-wordpress/305532 "2024-04-26T07:52:17Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon) #### Post date: [April 26, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-the-best-users-in-wordpress/305532/4 "2024-04-26T16:54:07Z")
You could use a similar approach to what the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) Shortcodes plugin does. It makes API requests to Discourse to get data in a JSON format, then uses the data to generate HTML. > [@Wp-discourse-shortcodes plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-shortcodes-plugin/48910): > > This is a simple plugin that extends the wp-discourse plugin by adding shortcodes for creating links from WordPress to your Discourse forum. It adds shortcodes for [discourse\_link] , for creating a login link to a specific endpoint on your forum, [discourse\_topic] for beginning a pre-filled topic, and [discourse\_message] for beginning a private message. See the plugin’s readme for more details. This plugin is only lightly tested, so let me know if you run into problems with it. [https://github.…](https://github.com/scossar/wp-discourse-shortcodes) It’s been a while since I looked at that plugin, but possibly it could be extended to add a leaderboard shortcode. I’m going to make some Discourse blocks for the WordPress Block Editor soon. I’ll think about creating a leaderboard block. Leaderboards are a bit of an anti-feature for me, but I don’t think that’s the case for a lot of people. Discourse could also look into creating more embeddable widgets - similar to [Embed a list of Discourse topics onto an external site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-a-list-of-discourse-topics-into-an-external-site/293709). A leaderboard widget would be a good candidate for that. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-the-best-users-in-wordpress/305532)._