WP Congress: A new legislative scorecard plugin for WordPress

Engage your supporters and empower their activism with the WP Congress WordPress plugin, our brand new legislative scorecard plugin for WordPress sites!

What is a legislative scorecard?

A legislative scorecard is a tool for showing legislators’ voting records. With a ranked list of legislative votes, you can help voters understand where legislators stand on issues that are important to your organization and to your supporters.

Oftentimes, a legislator is assigned a percentage score to show how well they align with your organizations’ voting preferences.

What’s WP Congress?

WP Congress is a plugin that we built as an add-on to WordPress sites. The plugin harnesses the power of the ProPublica Congress API to build legislator scores. Data includes:

• General biographical information for current and past members of Congress
• Voting history for members of the House of Representatives and Senate
• Bill summaries, amendments, and related bills
• Voting data updates every 30 minutes

Once you’ve configured the WP Congress plugin with the ProPublica API, you can then select which votes you want to record. Next, you’ll import and specify your voting preferences to specify which legislators are most closely aligned with what issues matter to your organization.

We built WP Congress for users who want to not just aggregate voting data in a list online but to also display the data within their site’s theme.

WP Congress currently includes the following shortcode display options:

• A legislator archive to display a full list of all legislators with pagination
• A legislator honor roll to display legislators with a voting record at or above a set percentage (which you control)
• A clickable legislator map for state legislative district information
• Legislator search functionality for finding legislators for a users’ address
• Vote search to find votes based on criteria

Can I use it?

Yes, you can! Purchase WP Congress for your site today or contact us to learn more!