About this plugin
VSForge Stock Market Widgets Lite lets you embed real-time stock quotes anywhere on your WordPress site using a simple shortcode or the built-in Gutenberg block. Bring your own free Finnhub API key — no subscription required.
Five display layouts
- Single Card — one symbol as a prominent price card
- Sparkline — price card with a 30-day trend mini-chart
- Horizontal Ticker — all symbols in a classic scrollable ticker band (static or auto-scroll)
- Vertical List — financial-table style with logo, name, price and change columns
- Card Grid — responsive grid of individual price cards
Key features
- Powered by the Finnhub free API (60 requests/minute) — get a free key
- Optional company logos via the free API Ninjas logo endpoint
- Dark theme support — toggle globally or per widget
- Shortcode [vsforge_smw_ticker] with per-widget overrides for layout, symbols, display, scroll and theme
- Native Gutenberg block with live preview in the editor
- Translations included for English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Russian
- Lightweight — no jQuery dependency, vanilla JS only
- Results cached with WordPress transients (5 min for quotes, 1 h for sparklines, 7 days for logos)
Shortcode examples
[vsforge_smw_ticker]
Uses the symbols and layout configured in Settings → Stock Market Widgets.
[vsforge_smw_ticker symbols="AAPL,MSFT,GOOGL,TSLA"]
Override the symbols for this widget only.
[vsforge_smw_ticker layout="grid" symbols="AAPL,MSFT,AMZN,GOOGL,META,TSLA"]
Card grid with custom symbols.
[vsforge_smw_ticker layout="sparkline" symbols="AAPL"]
Sparkline card for a single symbol.
[vsforge_smw_ticker layout="horizontal" scroll="auto" dark="1"]
Auto-scrolling horizontal ticker with dark theme.
Privacy
This plugin makes server-side requests to the following external services. No personal data is transmitted.
- finnhub.io — real-time stock quotes (required). Privacy Policy
- api.api-ninjas.com — company logos (optional, only if an API Ninjas key is configured). Privacy Policy
- query1.finance.yahoo.com — historical closing prices for the Sparkline layout (no key required). Privacy Policy