About this plugin
Juniustech Gold Price Calculator fetches live gold prices, converts them to CHF, and displays an interactive karat price table on any page.
Features:
- Hourly automatic price updates (WordPress cron), with a one-hour cache
- 9 gold alloys (999 to 333)
- Additional kg rows for silver-plated items and tin (CHF/kg editable in settings)
- Combined TOTAL (CHF) across grams and kilograms
- Configurable surcharge per gram (default: 0.50 CHF)
- Shortcode: [gold_price_calculator]
- Shows the last known price if the API is temporarily unavailable
- Inquiry form that emails the gram/karat and kg breakdown
- Responsive table design
External services
This plugin connects to external APIs to retrieve live gold spot prices and
currency exchange rates. This is required because the calculator shows
up-to-date values instead of static prices.
Requests run on the server with wp_remote_get. No personal data, no visitor
information and no site content is transmitted by this plugin.
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com/price/XAU) — gold price in USD. Used when
no custom JSON URL is set. com/ Privacy: the request
contains only the metal symbol path (XAU).
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dev/) — USD to CHF conversion. Used to
convert the gold USD price to CHF. dev/
The request contains only currency codes (USD, CHF).
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co/query) — optional fallback when
the sources above fail, or when the site owner has entered an API key.
The request contains lookup parameters (metal/currency codes) and the site
owner’s own API key. co/terms_of_service/
co/privacy/
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Optional custom JSON URL (settings) — if the site owner enters a URL, that
host is requested first. Only the URL they configured is contacted.
A request is sent when cached price data expires and a page containing the
calculator is loaded, when WordPress cron runs the hourly update, and when an
administrator saves settings or clicks Refresh now.