About this plugin
Mortgage Rates adds a compact box of current US mortgage rates to your WordPress site. It lists the average 30-year fixed, 15-year fixed and 5/1 ARM rates with the change since the previous week, and a “View Trend” link to the full rates page. It is meant for mortgage officers, real-estate agents and finance or home-buying blogs that want fresh rate content for their readers without updating it by hand.
Add it as a Gutenberg block, a sidebar widget or the [mlrates] shortcode.
S. com. Your site fetches them as data and caches them; all of the widget’s code ships with the plugin.
Features
- Current average 30-year fixed, 15-year fixed and 5/1 ARM mortgage rates
- Weekly change shown next to each rate
- Updates automatically: your server refreshes the data at most every six hours and keeps the last good copy if the source is unreachable
- Gutenberg block “Mortgage Rates” with a live preview, sidebar widget, [mlrates] shortcode or a template function
- Wide (300px) or narrow form
- “View Trend” link that opens the full mortgage rates page on mlcalc.com in a new tab
- No API key or account needed
How to use
In the block editor, click the “+” button, search for “Mortgage Rates” and add the block; the sidebar lets you set the state label and the size.
Or add the shortcode to a page or post:
[mlrates]
Set the form size or the state label:
[mlrates state="NY" size="narrow"]
> from a theme template.
Shortcode parameters
- size = wide | narrow
- state = a US state code, for example NY. It sets the name shown in the widget heading and the state rates page the heading links to. The rate values shown are the U.S. averages.
Who it is for
Mortgage officers, real-estate agents, home-buying and personal-finance blogs.
Please note
The rates are national averages for information only. They are not your lender’s rates and not an offer.
External services
com (operated by ARSIDIAN LLC). json when the widget is shown and the cached copy is older than six hours (or an hour after a failed request). com sees only your server’s IP address and the standard request headers WordPress sends.
com cannot be reached.
com/mortgage-rates/) opens in a new tab; nothing is sent unless the visitor clicks.
- Service: https://www.mlcalc.com/mortgage-rates/
- Terms of use: https://www.mlcalc.com/terms.htm
- Privacy policy: https://www.mlcalc.com/privacy.htm
Mortgage Rates Screenshots
- The Mortgage Rates front-end, as it appears in your WordPress Sidebar.
- The Trend Chart and Detailed Rates, as it appears when a visitor clicks the View Trend anchor.
- The Mortgage Rates widget configuration dialog, as it appears within WordPress Administration Interface.