Description

A simple and easy configurable plugin for WordPress that allows you to insert a stock ticker with stock price information to posts, pages, widgets, or even to template files. Insertion is enabled by a shortcode or multi-instance widget.

Stock data is fetched by the API from Alpha Vantage. You’ll need an AlphaVantage.co API Key.

Stock Ticker is an advanced variation of the Stock Quote plugin.

Multisite WordPress is not supported yet.

IMPORTANT: Stock Ticker does not have its Gutenberg Block. You can use Shortcode Block or Common Block to insert the Stock Ticker within the post/page content.

Disclaimer

All stock data used in Stock Ticker is provided by Alpha Vantage, displayed for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice.

As of the end of 2023, AlphaVantage limited the Free API tier to 5 requests per minute and 25 requests per day.

Before presenting stock data on your website publicly, ensure that you comply with the Alpha Vantage Terms of Service and have a valid commercial license!

The author of the Stock Ticker plugin does not accept liability or responsibility for your use of the plugin, including but not limited to trading and investment results. Additionally, the author of the Stock Ticker plugin can not guarantee that stock prices are always accurate, as they are provided by a third-party service for free.

Features

Set a global set of symbols you’ll use site-wide.
Configure the default set of stock symbols that will be displayed in the ticker inserted by the empty shortcode.
Configure the default presence of the company as Company Name or as a Stock Symbol.
Configure colours for unchanged quote, negative and positive changes with the colour picker.
Disable scrolling ticker and make it static.
Define custom names for companies to be used instead of the symbols.
Define custom elements as a part of the visible value.

You can set a custom template for a visible change value. Default format is %company% %price% %change% %changep%. As macro keywords, you can use:

%exch_symbol% – Symbol with exchange, like NASDAQ:AAPL
%symbol% – Company symbol, like AAPL
%company% – Company name after filtered by custom names, like Apple Inc.
%price% – Price value, like 125.22
%change% – Change value, like -5.53
%changep% – Change percentage, like -4.23%
%ltrade% – Last trade day (like 2020-09-25), which can be followed by the PHP date format to customise date output, separate by pipe character, eg |l, jS \of F Y

For help, use the official WordPress support forum.

How To Use

You can add a Stock Ticker to posts, pages or widgets by shortcode or widget (Appearance -> Widgets).

Shortcode

Use the simple shortcode [stock_ticker] without any parameters in a post or page to display the ticker with default settings. You can tweak a single shortcode with parameters:

symbols – string with asingle or comma-separated array of stock symbols
show – a string that defines how the company will be represented on the ticker; can be the name for Company Name, or a symbol for Stock Symbol
number_format – override default number format for values (default from this settings page used if no custom set by shortcode). Valid options are: cd for 0.000,00; dc for 0,000.00; sd for 0 000.00 and sc for 0 000,00
decimals – override default number of decimal places for values (default from this settings page used if no custom set by shortcode). Valid values are: 1, 2, 3 and 4
static – (boolean) to enable static unordered list instead of scrolling ticker, set to 1 or true
prefill – (boolean) to start with pre-filled instead of an empty ticker set to 1 or true
duplicate – (boolean) if there are fewer items than visible on the ticker, set this to 1 or true to make it continuous
speed – (integer) tune speed of StockTicker block rendered by shortcode
class – (optional) customise block look and feel, set custom CSS class

Examples

Scrolling ticker
[stock_ticker symbols=”BABA,EURGBP,LLOY.LON” show=”symbol”]
Static unordered list
[stock_ticker symbols=”BABA,EURGBP,LLOY.LON” show=”symbol” static=”1″]

Supported Stock Exchange Markets

Alpha Vantage provide stock data for the following stock exchange markets:

BOM – Bombay Stock Exchange
TSE – Canadian/Toronto Securities Exchange
FRA – Deutsche Börse Frankfurt Stock Exchange
ETR – Deutsche Börse Frankfurt Stock Exchange
AMS – Euronext Amsterdam
EBR – Euronext Brussels
ELI – Euronext Lisbon
EPA – Euronext Paris
LON – London Stock Exchange
NASDAQ – NASDAQ Exchange
CPH – NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen
HEL – NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
ICE – NASDAQ OMX Iceland
NYSE – New York Stock Exchange
SHA – Shanghai Stock Exchange
SHE – Shenzhen Stock Exchange
TPE – Taiwan Stock Exchange
TYO – Tokyo Stock Exchange

Not supported:

MCX – Moscow Exchange (since December 2018) – eg. MCX:GAZP
ASX – Australian Securities Exchange (since May 2020) – eg, ASX:MSB
SGX – Singapore Exchange (since July 13th 2020) – eg, C29.SI
NSE – National Stock Exchange of India (since July 2020) – eg, NSE:VB
STO – NASDAQ OMX Stockholm (since October 2021) – eg, STO:ATCO-A
BIT – Borsa Italiana Milan Stock Exchange (since December 2023) – eg, BIT:OLI

Hall of Fame

Kudos to:

Patchstack and Wordfence researchers for early reporting of vulnerabilities.
fellow alpha testers @flexer, @khunmax, @k2_1971, and @vijaleshk, for release v3.0.0.
@eigood, who pointed me to AlphaVantage.co as an alternative to Google Finance.
@rbrodrecht for helping with Alpha Vantage entitlement implementation.

Screenshots

Global plugin settings page (version 3.23.5)
Widget settings
Stock ticker in action
Stock ticker in Customizer > top Widgets top
Stock ticker in Customizer > sidebar Widgets
Stock ticker through Gutenberg Shortcode block

Installation

To install Stock Ticker and make initial settings to work, please follow the instructions below.

Go to Plugins > Add New.
Search for the Stock Ticker plugin.
Install and activate Stock Ticker.
Get a free API Key from AlphaVantage.co.
In the WordPress Dashboard, navigate to Settings > Stock Ticker.
Enter the Alpha Vantage API Key you received in the previous step in the field AlphaVantage.co API Key (check this screenshot).
Enter all stock symbols you’ll use on the whole website in various widgets and shortcodes to the field All Stock Symbols, separated by a comma. This field is used to fetch stock data from AlphaVantage.co API by AJAX in the background. Because AV’s free tier only offers an API to retrieve data for a single symbol, it can take some time to get. Please note that, for default shortcode symbols, a field remains in the Default Settings section of the plugin.
1. Save the settings and click the Fetch Stock Data Now! button to initially fetch stock data into the database. Wait for a while until we receive all symbols from AlphaVantage.co for the first time.
Insert shortcode [stock_ticker] to a page or post, or the Stock Ticker Widget to the preferred Widget Area.

FAQ

How to know which stock symbols to use?

You can use standard symbols from stock exchanges supported by AlphaVantage.co, such as AAPL, MSFT, IBM, CSCO, GOOG, YHOO, and AMZN (Apple Inc., Microsoft Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com).

To check if AlphaVantage.co supports your preferred symbol(s), you can use the Symbol Search & Test tool on the plugin settings page to search for keywords and symbols on AlphaVantage.co directly from your WordPress dashboard.

The stock exchange or symbol I need does not work!

Try to find the correct symbol on AlphaVantage.co by looking for it in the Symbol Search & Test tool. Even try alternatives or the company name. If that does not help, you can search the Alpha Vantage community forum www.alpha-vantage.community or contact Alpha Vantage support.

How to get Dow Jones Industrial Average or other Indexes?

AlphaVantage.co does not support indexes since mid-2020.

How to get Crude Oil, Gold and other commodities?

Commodities are not supported by the Stock Ticker.

How to obtain a currency exchange rate?

Forex is not supported by the Stock Ticker.

How to get the proper stock price from a proper stock exchange?

Enter symbol in format EXCHANGE:SYMBOL, like LON:LLOY or SYMBOL.EXCHANGE like LLOY.LON for Lloyds Banking Group Plc from the London Stock Exchange market.

Please note that AlphaVantage.co does not always provide stock data for all existing stocks.

How to get a descriptive title for currency exchange rates?

Add to Custom Names legend currency exchange symbol w/o =X part, like:

EURGBP;Euro (€) ⇨ British Pound Sterling (£)

How to add Stock Ticker to the header theme file?

Add this to your template file (you can also add custom parameters for the shortcode):

<?php echo do_shortcode('[stock_ticker]'); ?>

How to customise quote output?

On the Settings page for the plugin, you can set a custom Value template. You can use macro keywords %exch_symbol%, %symbol%, %company%, %price%, %volume%, %change%, %changep% and %ltrade% mixed with HTML tags <span> (allowed class and style attribute), <em> and/or <strong>.

Default template is %company% %price% %change% %changep% but you can format it like:

<span style="color:#333">%company%</span> <em>%price%</em> <strong>%change%</strong> %changep%

I set to show `%company%` but symbol is displayed instead

Please note that Alpha Vantage does not provide the company name in retrieved feeds. You’ll need to set the company name in the Custom Names field on the plugin settings page.

How to resolve the error `Unfortunately, we could not get stock quotes this time`?

This can be a temporary issue. First, try running Fetch Stock Data Now! on the plugin settings page.

Then try increasing the Fetch Timeout option in the general plugin settings and run Fetch Stock Data Now!.

If you continue to experience issues, please contact us through the community support forum.

Can I get stock data for my custom code?

Since version 3.1 of Stock Ticker, you can get stock data in custom functions. For example:

<?php
if ( class_exists( 'Wpau_Stock_Ticker' ) ) {
    $stock_data = Wpau_Stock_Ticker::get_stock_from_db( 'AAPL,MSFT' );
    var_dump( $stock_data );
}
?>

That will return the associated array for the requested symbols:

array(2) {
  ["AAPL"]=>
  array(11) {
    ["symbol"]=>
    string(4) "AAPL"
    ["tz"]=>
    string(10) "US/Eastern"
    ["last_refreshed"]=>
    string(19) "2018-09-14 00:00:00"
    ["last_open"]=>
    string(8) "225.7500"
    ["last_high"]=>
    string(8) "226.8400"
    ["last_low"]=>
    string(8) "222.5220"
    ["last_close"]=>
    string(8) "223.8400"
    ["last_volume"]=>
    string(8) "31999289"
    ["change"]=>
    string(7) "-2.5700"
    ["changep"]=>
    string(7) "-1.1351"
    ["range"]=>
    string(19) "222.5220 - 226.8400"
  }
  ["MSFT"]=>
  array(11) {
    ["symbol"]=>
    string(4) "MSFT"
    ["tz"]=>
    string(10) "US/Eastern"
    ["last_refreshed"]=>
    string(19) "2018-09-14 00:00:00"
    ["last_open"]=>
    string(8) "113.3600"
    ["last_high"]=>
    string(8) "113.7300"
    ["last_low"]=>
    string(8) "112.4400"
    ["last_close"]=>
    string(8) "113.3700"
    ["last_volume"]=>
    string(8) "19122349"
    ["change"]=>
    string(6) "0.4600"
    ["changep"]=>
    string(6) "0.4074"
    ["range"]=>
    string(19) "112.4400 - 113.7300"
  }
}

Do you offer custom development or integration?

Yes! If you need specific functionality that isn’t available out-of-the-box (like integration with themes, other plugins, specific data formatting, or unique display layouts), please contact us for a quote with a brief description of your project.

Reviews

mlebedze June 23, 2023

Has been functioning great for a long time. Excellent support from the author.

pparts June 9, 2021 1 reply

Not warm Poor plugins very bad

nikolas27 September 28, 2020

Great plugin and first-class support. Unlike other plugins, the tickers are not links to other websites. That gives a very professional appearance. Thank you

ajvanpipo September 24, 2020

The plugin works as noted, looks clean, and has some basic settings so you can set it up however you like. Recommended

Efim Kuznetsov June 4, 2019

После устранения проблем с автоматическим обновлением котировок плагин стал реально самодостаточным и хорошо реализованным. Автор всегда готов помочь в решении проблем. Жаль что нет поддержки локализации, так на 5+!

Ken Nguyen April 3, 2019

The plugin alpha version (released on 2017.11.08) had prepared for WP multisite. I don’t know why the option is canceled. The support is not effective. But this is a good plugin.

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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

3.26.2 (20260226)

Security: Patch CVE-2026-2722
Improve: Adding Support for AlphaVantage API Entitlements (thanks @rbrodrecht)
Improve: Readme

3.24.6 (20240628)

Fix: Stored Cross-Site Scripting discovered by Dale Mavers via Wordfence
Change: Code simplification
Tested: WordPress 6.5.5 with Twenty Twenty-Four 1.1 and PHP 8.3.7

3.24.4 (20240420)

Fix: API Key Tier always show as Free in plugin settings
Tested: WordPress 6.5.2 with Twenty Twenty-Three 1.4 and PHP 8.3.6

3.23.5 (20231216)

Security: Fix XSS in shortvode() method (reported by resecured.io via patchstack)
Tested: WordPress 6.4.2 with Twenty Twenty-Three 1.3 and PHP 8.2.13
Change: Discard symbols that contains carret and equals sign
Change: AlphaVantage introduced 25 requests per day for Free tier
Change: Deprecated Premium tiers 15, 60, 120, 360, added new Premium tiers 30, 75, 150 and 1200 requests per minute
Simplify: Plugin Settings page sidebar
Readme: Removed BIT Italian Stock Exchange from supported by AlphaVantage

3.23.4 (20230810)

Security: Fix CSS of stockticker_load
Tested: WordPress 6.3 with Twenty Twenty-Three 1.2 and PHP 8.2.8

3.23.3 (20230717)

Security: Fix XSS of Symbol Search & Test

3.23.2 (20230622)

Fix: webTicker jQuery library punch CPU to 100% on window resize
Tested: WordPress 6.2.2 with Twenty Twenty-Three 1.1 and PHP 8.2.7

3.23.1 (20230223)

Security: Patch Broken Access Control
Security: Remove URL parameter stockticker_purge_cache which allow unauthorised user to purge stock cache (from now purge stock cache by updating All Stock Symbols or running Fetch Stock Data Now on plugin settings page)

3.23.0 (20230223)

Security: Fix CSRF vulnerability, thanks to Mika/Patchstack
Tested: WordPress 6.2-beta3 with theme Twenty Twenty-Three and PHP 8.2.1

3.2.2 (20220102)

Fix: Fix bug introduced with release 3.2.1 which prevent stocks to be updated
Tested: WordPress 5.9 and PHP 8.0.11

3.2.1 (20211113)

Fix: custom number_format has no effect
Tested: WordPress 5.8.2 and PHP 7.4.24

3.2.0 (20201107)

Update: FAQ
Improve: Help section on plugin settings page
Improve: spelling and grammar
Change: rename option Auto Refresh to Auto Reload to be clear what it is for
Tested: WordPress 5.5.3 and PHP 7.4.10
(20201002) Improve: translatable strings and update Text Domain to from wpaust to stock-ticker
Add: Symbol Search & Test to help users find correct symbol notation on AlphaVantage.co
(20200825) Add: new template keyword %ltrade% with customizable date format like %ltrade|l, jS \of F Y%

3.1.0.1 (20200810)

Tested: WordPress 5.5-RC2-48768 and PHP 7.4.1
(20190328) Fix: infinite Bad API response introduced in release 3.1

3.1 (20190328)

Bump supported WordPress version
Remove MCX from supported exchanges because AlphaVantage does not provide data for Moscow Stock Exchange
Fix/Improve: Infinite loop for bad API responses
Improve: Update disclaimer and readme
(20181122) Fix: Infinite fetch loop
Improve: Tier pause between symbol fetches
Improve: Allow dash in stock symbol
(20180916) Improve: Make Force Fetch to wait between each symbol fetch regarding to the API Tier
Improve: Remove duplicate symbols on settings update
Simplify: Merge 3 settings sections to single register_settings
Improve: Move routine to extract symbol to fetch to self method get_symbol_to_fetch()
Improve: Move stock data to DB to self method data_to_db()
Change: Make method get_stock_from_db() public so user can access Stock data in DB from custom functions
Change: Move method sanitize_symbols() to main class and make it public static so user can access it from custom functions
(20180824) Add Alpha Vantage Tier option for better fetch timeout control
Switch to GLOBAL_QUOTE API mode and eliminate requirement to calculate change amount from TIME_SERIES_DAILY and TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY
Remove Intraday option from settings

3.0.5.4 (20180823)

Fix: Better sanitization for AllSymbols
(20180403) Fix: Undefined index: message in wp-content/plugins/stock-ticker/stock-ticker.php on line 483
(20180321) Fix: Division by zero in stock-ticker\stock-ticker.php on line 1259 for not fully supported indices like ^DJBWR

3.0.5.3 (20180228)

Fix: Safer fix for Checkbox options

3.0.5.2 (20180228)

Fix: Checkbox options can not be disabled (Intraday, Auto Refresh, Load assets on all pages). Thanks to @cmyee for reporting bug.
Fix: Cache Timeout can not be saved and always reset to zero on settings update.

3.0.5.1 (20180204)

Fix: JavaScript error Uncaught ReferenceError: stock_tickers_load is not defined reported by @wparold

3.0.5 (20180204)

Fix: stock price was by mistake taken from last_open instead of last_close, reported by @cartmen123
Fix: INTRADAY option set as BETA
Fix: undefined variable $symbol and $method
Improve: description for Intraday
Improve: description for Refresh Timeout option and rename to Auto Refresh Timeout
Improve: description for Cache Timeout option
Improve: add advised minimal cache timeout value, based on number of symbols in All Stock Symbols and Fetch Timeout value.
(20180118) Add: support for TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY as optional method for refular symbols (excluding currencies and indexes)

3.0.4 (20171212)

Add: Button to Stop Fetch of forced fetching stock data on settings page
Improve: Description for Fetch Stock Data on settings page
Improve: Response info for Fetch Stock Data on settings page with link to test symbol in case of error message Invalid API call

3.0.3 (20171211)

Fix: Users of 0.2.99-alpha could have uncreated stock ticker table in database because of broken upgrade script in alpha versions
Add: Admin notification for AlphaVantage.co API Key and All Stock Symbols
(20171207) Add: Routine to stripe unsupported stock exchanges from all symbols when doing fetch from AlphaVantage.co to prevent API errors
Add: Routine to strip symbols from unsupported stock markets from All Stock Symbols and Stock Symbols and display message about removed symbols on settings update
Improve: sanitization for stock symbols on settings update
Change: API Key input type set to password

3.0.2 (20171205)

Readme: add required PHP version and link profiles in Hall of Fame
Add: Notice about not supported multisite
Add: Activation routine to check and deactivate plugin on multisite as not supported at the moment

3.0.1 (20171204)

Fix: Plugin table has not created for fresh installations
Fix: Stuck fetching data from AlphaVantage.co after first symbol fetch fail
Add: Force fetching data from settings page
Add: Fill stockticker.log only if WP_DEBUG is enabled
Change: Log and AJAX messages wording

3.0.0 (20171203)

Release working version of plugin

Great and well maintained plugin

Not wark

Great plugin and first-class support

Great plugin and great developer

Отличный плагин

Multisite Support

Description

Disclaimer

Features

How To Use

Shortcode

Examples

Supported Stock Exchange Markets

Hall of Fame

Screenshots

Installation

FAQ

How to know which stock symbols to use?

The stock exchange or symbol I need does not work!

How to get Dow Jones Industrial Average or other Indexes?

How to get Crude Oil, Gold and other commodities?

How to obtain a currency exchange rate?

How to get the proper stock price from a proper stock exchange?

How to get a descriptive title for currency exchange rates?

How to add Stock Ticker to the header theme file?

How to customise quote output?

I set to show `%company%` but symbol is displayed instead

How to resolve the error `Unfortunately, we could not get stock quotes this time`?

Can I get stock data for my custom code?

Do you offer custom development or integration?