Description
This plugin will create a widget, which will get the price of a stock, an display the price along with the name of the stock.
The plugin provides users with a shortcode to use on any page and post. The user provides the ticker value (eg. AAPL) and exchange (eg. NASDAQ). This is used to gather the data.
A few notes about the sections above:
- “Contributors” mprichardson
- “Tags” stock market, stock prices, live data
- “Requires at least” 2.5.0
- “Tested up to” 3.4
Use of a 3rd Party or external service
This plugin gets the data from our servers at https://api.simplestocks.io. Our servers gather data from various sources, all the data is validated and store the data in our own
databases. Future updates will see the use of a more advanced and friendlier API.
Screenshots
This is a screen shot of the Facebook stock screenshot-fb.png. 
This is a screen shot of the Apple Inc. stock. 
This is a screen shot of the Snap Inc. stock. 
This is a screen shot of the three stock prices on a page.
Installation
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
- Upload
interval-stock-price-refresher.phpto the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Place
[stock-refresher exchange=nasdaq ticker=AAPL]in your page or post, with ‘AAPL’ being the ticker you want the price for and ‘nasdaq’ being the exchange it belongs to.
FAQ
- Which stock prices can I get?
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At the moment, most of the stocks on the NASDAQ and NYSE. No commodities are supported yet.
- How many of these can I have per page?
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As many as you want.
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Contributors & Developers
“Interval Stock Price Refresher” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0
- Initial release of the plugin.
1.1
- Updated the api call to our servers. Now using our own servers and not the IP address anymore.