VSForge Stock Market Widgets Lite

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

Uses the symbols and layout configured in Settings → Stock Market Widgets.

Override the symbols for this widget only.

Card grid with custom symbols.

Sparkline card for a single symbol.

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