Live updating charts page?

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  luckym0use · Member · Nov 22, 2018 at 9:54 pm

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  Hi – im totally new to this. I would like to make two pages of live financial charts.
  Each page with c.50 charts. Thing is they are not fixed images – so no jpegs, pngs etc to upload. They are live links which move all the time. For example:
  https://finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=ES&p=h1&s=m
  Currently I can display that live chart within a simple html page by putting inside this code:
  <img src='LINK HERE'>
  And with a few html tables I can exactly control the content of a grid of charts.

  But can see no way of doing this in WordPress which appears to be more geared at bloggers uploading static pictures? Can you advise please exactly how to do this, and how to control the grid layout of these charts? I’m not a wordpress expert so any advice appreciated.
  Thanks in advance
  Martin

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  luckym0use · Member · Nov 22, 2018 at 10:01 pm

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  code is as follows, inside chevrons:
  img src=”LINK HERE”
  (oops-didnt display in first msg as chevrons confuse the page html)

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  supernovia · Staff · Nov 23, 2018 at 7:01 pm

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  @luckym0use If that file is served as an image, and if it’s over https, you can likely embed it with the code you mentioned.

  If it isn’t working, what happens on your end?

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  luckym0use · Member · Nov 23, 2018 at 7:17 pm

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  @supernovia – i cant even see where to write the basic html code lol!

  Going through that initial set up process seems to only offer the option of words & image uploads – im probably missing something.

  If you wanted say, using the example link above, a very simple grid of 6 x 6 chart windows – what exact steps would you follow? Once I have an example base, I can then expand upon it.

  Many Thanks

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  supernovia · Staff · Nov 23, 2018 at 10:41 pm

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  Are you using the newer editor? If so, click + to add a block, and choose Custom HTML.

  You can also edit an existing block by clicking the three dots and choosing “edit as HTML”

  I don’t think six of those images would fit across a grid on smaller screens, so I’d recommend against that. I do recommend inserting a few of those images and seeing how they fit on your theme, though, then deciding what to do from there.