Yesterday, I officially released my first personal plugin on the WordPress.org repository, "User Shortcodes Plus". While I have spent the last year in the WordPress ecosystem, building Ninja Forms with the WP Ninjas, this is the first project that I have released on my own.

User Shortcodes Plus adds simple user shortcodes to WordPress for displaying information about a user. This includes displaying information about the current user, as well as other users with the optional "id" shortcode attribute.

User Info Shortcodes

• user_id
• user_login
• user_email
• user_firstname
• user_lastname
• user_display (alias)
• user_display_name
• user_registered (date/time)

Custom User Meta Shortcodes

In addition to displaying basic user information, the plugin also supports custom user meta, with the [ user_meta ] shortcode and a "key" attribute.

For example, [ user_meta key=fav_color ] would display "blue".

Download

User Shortcodes Plus is now available in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory, as well as the Plugin menu of the WordPress dashboard.