About this plugin
Easy CryptoCurrency Ticker displays current cryptocurrency prices (bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and/or others) on your WordPress website. You may select multiple cryptocurrencies (over 1800 available) to show prices in various currencies (BTC, USD, EUR, GBP or others)
com using their API.
To improve performance and prevent your website to make too much requests to remote server, we cache prices in local WordPress database for two minutes.
Features
- Add one or more cryptocurrencies from the Coin List that contains over than 1800 coins.
- Add one or more national or crypto currencies to display cryptocurrency prices.
- Enable displaying of change amount and percentage below the price.
- Choose to link coin symbol to overview page on CryptoCompare.com
- Optionally hide logo for cryptocurrencies.
- Cache cryptocurrency logo locally.
- Cache prices in local WordPress for two minutes.
- Add referral link to your own coinbase.com Referral ID
- Insert widget by regular configurable WordPress widget or shortcode
Known issues
- Currencies are listed in alphabetic order, no matter how they are added to From field.
- Some cryptocurrencies are not supported by API even Coin List contain them, like CLOUT, EARTH, etc
- When new cryptocurrency is added for first time, loading of page can be a little bit slower for very first time because plugin have to download and store localle logo for that cryptocurrency.
Shortcode
Along to WordPress widget, you can use shortcode [cryptocurrency_ticker] with following parameters:
- f – Symbols of cryptocurrency coins. Multiple symbols have to be separated by comma. Default fallback is: ‘BTC,ETC,XMR’
- t – Symbols of national or crypto currency. Multiple symbols have to be separated by comma. Default fallback is: ‘USD’,
- noicon – To hide coin logo, set this option to true`
- nolink – To insert coin symbol without link to overview page on CryptoCompare.com, set this option to true
- coinbase – If you wish to display link to your Coin Base Referral ID, set your referral ID to this parameter
- showchange – If you wish to display additional change amount and percentage below the price, set this option to true
Customizations
To customize how ticker looks like, you can use following CSS classes to target various ticker elements:
cctw – class of main table element
currency – cryptocurrency coin symbol
ico – class targeting cryptocurrency icon
amount – element that contains price and change values
price – element that contain price value
price
change – element that contains change value (amount and percentage)
delay – element that contains info about delayed quotes
coinbase – element that contains referral link to Coin Base
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