Add In-line Stock Quote Data to your Posts. Based on the StockQuoteTT Plug-in by Andrew Hill. I took the framework that Andrew Hill put together and instead of setting up stock quote tool tips, which were driving me nuts based upon my sites design, I pulled in the current data from yahoo.com and placed it in-line.

This is my first WordPress plug-in, so I welcome any commentary on improvements etc…

• Version: 0.2
• Tested on WordPress versions: 2.3.1, 2.3.2

Usage

To use the plug-in, simply extract the files from the zip and drop it into your plug-ins folder. There is a sample .css file included that you can place into your style-sheet for customization.

After you extract the files and activate the plug-in, it would be best to sneak over to the ‘Options’ section and configure the plug-in. From there, you should be good to go. The plug-in acts as a content filter so you don’t really need to do anything else.

Enjoy!

Change Log

• 0.1 – Initial Release
• 0.2 – Enhancements for page load speed and protection against timeout
  • Added support for CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT parameter via the options control page.
  • Moved query to global function and usage of global variables to reduce the number of queries made to the yahoo engine and speed up page load time.

Download

Version 0.1 – Inline Stock Quote Plugin Version 0.2