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.
