VortexCodex Crypto Widgets
VortexCodex Crypto Widgets adds beautiful, lightweight cryptocurrency price displays to any WordPress site — no API key required.
Display types
- Scrolling ticker — a smooth, seamless marquee of live prices (pauses on hover).
- Price cards — a responsive grid of coin cards with price, 24h change and market cap.
- Price table — rank, coin, price, 24h change, market cap and 24h volume.
- Inline label — drop a live price right inside a sentence.
- Sidebar widget — compact list or cards for any widget area.
Features
- 17,000+ coins supported via CoinGecko ids (bitcoin, ethereum, solana, …).
- 20 display currencies including USD, EUR, GBP, INR, JPY — even BTC and ETH.
- Prices auto-refresh in the visitor’s browser without a page reload (optional).
- Smart server-side caching — one upstream API call per cache window, no matter how much traffic you get. If the API is briefly unreachable, the last good prices are shown.
- 24h change shown in green/red with a customizable accent color.
- Fully responsive, tiny footprint: one small CSS file and one dependency-free JS file, loaded only on pages that use a widget.
- Respects
prefers-reduced-motion. - Translation-ready.
Shortcodes
[vortexcodex_ticker coins="bitcoin,ethereum" currency="usd" speed="50"][vortexcodex_cards coins="bitcoin,ethereum,solana" columns="3"][vortexcodex_table coins="bitcoin,ethereum,solana"][vortexcodex_label coin="bitcoin" show_change="yes"]
All attributes are optional; defaults are configured under Settings → VortexCodex Crypto. Shortcodes work in the block editor (Shortcode block), classic editor, and most page builders.
Pro version
A Pro add-on is available with historical price charts, 7-day sparkline cards, a visitor currency switcher, and a live crypto converter.
External services
This plugin retrieves cryptocurrency market data from the CoinGecko API (https://www.coingecko.com). Requests are made from your server (never from your visitors’ browsers directly to CoinGecko) whenever the local cache expires. Only the list of coin ids and the display currency you configure are sent; no personal or visitor data is transmitted.
- CoinGecko Terms of Service: https://www.coingecko.com/en/terms
- CoinGecko Privacy Policy: https://www.coingecko.com/en/privacy