Open Currency Converter

🚀 If you have a wish to convert currencies "on the fly" within the text of a post or page then this is the plugin for you! It's free to download, free to use and advert free - if you think you have to pay for something you're doing it wrong! So, let's say you run a UK based site and will refer to currencies in GBP. However, the majority of visitors are from the US, so you may have a wish to also show the dollar equivalent. Using this plugin you can do this without having to work out the conversion and then re-visit it in future to take into account conversion changes. Key features include...

• No need to update exchange rates yourself - data is fetched from an Open Source API
• Over 170 currencies supported
• An easy to use shortcode for embedding directly into your posts and pages
• A PHP function for those people who wish to add features in their theme
• Results can be cached, reducing resources and improving response
• Template to allow you to control how results are output
• Administration screen allowing you to define defaults and to view current exchange rates
• And much, much more!

👉 Please visit the Github page for the latest code development, planned enhancements and known issues 👈

Open Currency Converter can be found and installed via the Plugin menu within WordPress administration (Plugins -> Add New). Alternatively, it can be downloaded from WordPress.org and installed manually...

1. Upload the entire artiss-currency-converter folder to your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress administration.

Voila! It's ready to go.

I use semantic versioning, with the first release being 1.0. 1.4.8

• Maintenance: The plugin has been adopted, so the adoption and shut-down notices have been removed, as well as various plugin meta updated for the new owner

1.4.7

• Maintenance: Added notices about the plugin closure

1.4.6

• Bug: Fixed a bug where an empty array wasn't recognised as such, causing cascading errors

1.4.5

• Enhancement: Improved the help on both admin screens
• Maintenance: Added donation links back in
• Maintenance: Added in some missing flags
• Maintenance: Improved the README instructions, based on feedback
• Maintenance: Added Github links to plugin meta
• Bug: Fixed Use of undefined constant global_convert_from PHP warning

1.4.4

• Maintenance: Removed donation links

1.4.3

• Enhancement: The shortcode is now loaded at all times, as loading only outside of admin didn’t add any performance improvement
• Maintenance: Updated this README to better reflect the new plugin directory format
• Maintenance: Corrected links to artiss.blog
• Maintenance: This plugin now requires a minimum WordPress level of 4.6, so changes were made to accommodate that, including the removal of various language features
• Maintenance: Added in a couple of missing country flags

1.4.2

• Maintenance: Updated API URL, including new SSL addresses

1.4.1

• Maintenance: Updated branding, inc. adding donation links

1.4

• Enhancement: Validated, sanitized and escaped the user data being sloshed around the admin screens
• Enhancement: Modified some INCLUDES so that the plugin folder wasn't hardcoded. Also replaced the deprecated WP_PLUGIN_URL with plugins_url
• Enhancement: When the API key hasn't yet been specified, the prompt will appear when in the settings screen as well
• Maintenance: Updated branding, including removal of donation links
• Maintenance: Removed the occ- prefixes from the file names
• Maintenance: Modified administration screens so that they use the same coding standard as the core screens
• Bug: Fixed some links that were not correct
• Bug: Resolved some PHP errors
• Bug: Fixed an issue with the default options when migrating from an earlier version of the plugin

1.3.1

• Maintenance: Added a text domain and domain path, as well as correcting the domain name.

1.3

• Enhancement: Added some swizzy new currency flags.
• Enhancement: Now handles commas in your provided currency amount. It even adds them in the result. Nice.
• Maintenance: New name and less advertising. We're nice like that.
• Maintenance: Removed the specific admin menu because, well, it wasn't needed. Moved the plugin options to the general Admin Options and exchange rates to Tools.
• Maintenance: Added support for WordPress 4.3 admin menu changes.
• Maintenance: Re-written the README and on-screen options to be clearer and, more importantly, make sure people realize you can get the API data for FREE!
• Bug: We've been on PHP error hunt... we're not scared.. we went and found some big ones... FIXED!

1.2

• Enhancement: Added message to admin screen if App Key not set
• Maintenance: Updated advertising engine code to latest version
• Maintenance: Updated README Parser function name
• Bug: Corrected the user permissions

1.1.1

• Bug: Error on activation when installed alongside certain other plugins which share a particular function

1.1

• Enhancement: Country flag icons, where appropriate, are now shown on the rates screen
• Enhancement: Added global variables for overriding default currencies
• Enhancement: Conversion in rates screen now shows results as 2 DP
• Maintenance: Advertisements now appear in the options screens, but implemented option to switch off if donated
• Maintenance: New App Key requirements implemented
• Maintenance: Put in place minimum values for caching - no longer able to switch off
• Bug: Fixed internationalization, including rates screens which was not being translated

1.0.1

• Fixed bug where currency output that contained a thousand separator was being interpreted as an error message!

1.0

• Initial release