Celebrity Death Pool

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