Interval Stock Price Refresher

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.

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload interval-stock-price-refresher.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. 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.

Which stock prices can I get?

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?

As many as you want.

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   This is a screen shot of the Facebook stock screenshot-fb.png.

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   This is a screen shot of the Apple Inc. stock.

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   This is a screen shot of the Snap Inc. stock.

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   This is a screen shot of the three stock prices on a page.

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.