Embed your public merge requests, commits, and releases as a live activity feed in 90 seconds. Paste your gitlab.com handle, no code.
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Live demo, not a screenshot. Drop in a gitlab.com handle, pick a layout, and ship the same widget to your portfolio.
From GitLab to your site
Poper pulls your public GitLab feed and renders it inline on your website, fully branded to match your design. No API keys, no manual updates.
Poper widget liveMockups for illustration. Pull your real GitLab feed and embed in 90 seconds.
How to use it
Three steps. Under two minutes. Paste a gitlab.com handle, no code.
Drop in your gitlab.com profile URL or username. Poper instantly previews your public activity feed: merge requests, commits, opened issues, and releases.
Choose the default native GitLab-style activity layout, then brand it. Theme colors, fonts, accent, header, and post styling to match your portfolio or company DevOps page.
Paste the one-line script tag into your portfolio, docs site, or internal wiki. Works on Next.js, Astro, Hugo, Webflow, Framer, WordPress, Ghost, Notion Sites, and supported HTML setup.
Works everywhere
Drop-in install on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Framer, Ghost, and any HTML-friendly stack. No build step, no developer needed.
Plus 250+ other platforms via the embed snippet. If your site can render a <script> tag, it can render the GitLab Activity Widget: Embed Merge Requests, Commits and Releases on Any Site.
Six things that matter when you embed GitLab on a DevOps portfolio or internal dashboard, not 30 features no one uses.
Reads your public GitLab events: pushed commits, merge requests, opened issues, comments, and releases. Each one renders as a row in a single themable activity feed that updates on its own. No backend to maintain, no scheduled job, no manual screenshots when you ship.
Every row carries the matching GitLab event-type icon, the project link, and the commit message detail, styled to mirror GitLab's own activity UI. The DevOps activity look your visitors already recognize, on your own domain.
Opened and merged MR events show up in the feed with the project link, so visitors see the merge requests you have been shipping, not just raw commits.
Point the widget at any gitlab.com profile or username. Public project activity loads with no login and no token to manage.
The embed loads through the Poper snippet. Validate layout and performance on your own page after embedding.
Tagged releases show up as release events in the activity feed alongside your commits and merged MRs. Drop the widget next to your product copy so visitors always see that you are still shipping.
Use cases
Four buyer types who get the most lift from embedding GitLab Activity Widget: Embed Merge Requests, Commits and Releases on Any Site on their site.
Turn your gitlab.com profile into a live proof-of-work block on your portfolio. Recruiters see the merge requests and commits you have shipped recently, not bullet points in a static resume. The fastest way to make production DevOps experience verifiable in one scroll.
Show the public GitLab activity for a maintainer, release engineer, or project owner on /engineering, /careers, or a product page. Visitors see real commits, merge requests, and releases from the profile you choose, without an organization-wide activity stream.
Projects that picked GitLab over GitHub deserve the same proof-of-work surface. Drop a live activity feed on the project homepage so contributors and users see a steady stream of recent commits, merge requests, and releases, the strongest signal the repo is healthy.
Release engineers, platform engineers, and SREs do their best work in GitLab merge requests and reviews. Embed the activity feed on a portfolio or product changelog page so visitors see merged MRs and tagged releases land in real time, not stale screenshots.
Elfsight, Common Ninja, and POWR all sell embeddable feed widgets. Here is how the popular widget-provider platforms compare on what matters for a GitLab activity feed.
| Recommended Poper | Elfsight | Common Ninja | POWR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poper workspace available | Limited | Limited | Limited | |
| Dedicated GitLab activity widget | ||||
| Live merge requests, commits, and releases | RSS workaround | RSS workaround | ||
| Native GitLab-style event icons | ||||
| Layout styling controls | Paid only | Paid only | Paid only | |
| Paste handle, no GitLab login | Varies | Varies | Varies | |
| Works on hosted sites and portfolios | ||||
| Remove widget branding | All paid plans | Higher tiers | Higher tiers | Higher tiers |
| Starting paid price | Plan details vary | Vendor pricing varies | Vendor pricing varies | Vendor pricing varies |
| Bundled with popups, forms, quizzes |
Comparison reflects external competitor positioning. Verify current details on each provider's site.
DevOps engineers, SREs, release engineers, and maintainers using Poper's GitLab Activity Widget on portfolio and project pages.
“Poper's GitLab Activity Widget turned my portfolio from a static resume into a live proof-of-work feed. Recruiters can see recent merge requests and releases without leaving the page.”
“We use the GitLab Activity Widget on our project page to show public commits and tagged releases. It is clearer than screenshots and easier than rebuilding a custom activity block.”
“The widget helped me keep my SRE portfolio current. I pasted my gitlab.com profile, matched the styling, and the page now updates as my public GitLab activity changes.”
Pricing
All plans are billed yearly. Each card shows the per-month equivalent. Start free, then upgrade only when you need more campaigns, websites, or AI credits.
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Prices shown for the 50k monthly visitor tier on yearly billing. A Free Forever plan ($0) and a custom Enterprise plan are also available. No contracts, cancel anytime.
GitLab is the all-in-one DevOps platform. Founded in 2014 by Sid Sijbrandij and Dmitriy Zaporozhets and listed on the NASDAQ in 2021, GitLab took a radically different bet from GitHub: instead of focusing purely on source-code collaboration, it bundled source control, CI/CD, security scanning, package registries, and observability into a single application. Today over 30 million registered users rely on GitLab. For DevOps engineers, SREs, platform teams, and open-source maintainers who chose GitLab, embedding that activity directly on your own site turns your portfolio into a live proof-of-work feed. This guide covers what actually matters in 2026: what a GitLab activity feed shows, why a live feed beats a screenshot, the all-in-one DevOps positioning versus GitHub Actions plus Codespaces, recent activity as a proof-of-work signal, and how to choose a gitlab activity widget that stays performance-conscious.
GitLab publishes a public activity stream for every account on gitlab.com: pushed commits, merge requests, opened issues, comments, and releases. That stream is exactly what a visitor to a DevOps portfolio wants to verify, because it answers the only question that matters on a hire-me page: is this engineer actually shipping right now? The Poper GitLab Activity widget reads that public activity for the gitlab.com username or profile URL you enter and renders it as a clean feed on your own site. The key word is live. A screenshot of your GitLab profile is stale within a week and lies by omission the moment you merge again. An embedded activity feed refreshes on its own, so the version a recruiter sees on Tuesday is not the version from last month. Because the widget only needs public gitlab.com activity, there is no GitLab login, no OAuth, and no personal access token to manage: you paste a profile handle and the feed appears. That keeps setup to one field and means the widget never has access to anything you have not already made public.
Use the styling controls available for this feed layout.
GitLab's product strategy from day one was the single application: source control, CI/CD, container registry, package registry, security scanning, and value stream analytics in one tool. GitHub took the opposite path, building an ecosystem (Actions, Codespaces, Dependabot, Advanced Security, Copilot) of independent products that customers stitch together. Both approaches work, and the choice often reflects buying preference more than feature gaps. For DevOps engineers and SREs who chose GitLab, the activity stream is where their day-to-day shows up: merge requests, commits, opened issues, and releases. The Poper widget reads exactly that public profile stream and surfaces it as a clean feed, so an engineer's GitLab work becomes visible proof-of-work on a portfolio, project page, or changelog without anyone needing a GitLab seat to see it.
Use the styling controls available for this feed layout.
The embed loads through the Poper snippet. Validate layout and performance on your own page after embedding.
A GitLab activity widget is an embeddable script that displays a developer's public GitLab activity (merge requests, commits, opened issues, and releases) from gitlab.com on your website as a live, brand-themable activity feed that refreshes automatically.
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