theFinancials Market Widgets

This plugin from theFinancials.com lets you embed free, live-updating, financial market data widgets into your WordPress pages. Choose 50+ popular financial widgets including:

• Interest rate widgets | Featuring U.S. Treasury Rates, SOFR Rates, Prime Rate, Canadian CMB Rates, GOC Rates, CORRA, and other capital markets rates
• Exchange rate widgets | Featuring Spot rates for major currency pairs - USD/EUR, USD/GBP, USD/JPY, USD/CAD, EUR/GBP, EUR/JPY
• Indexes widgets | Featuring Dow, S&P 500, NASDAQ
• Energy prices widgets | Featuring Crude Prices, Natural Gas Prices, Rig Counts
• Grain prices widgets | Featuring Corn Prices, Wheat Prices, Soy Prices
• Metals prices widgets | Featuring Gold Prices, Silver Prices, Platinum Prices And many more rates, quotes and prices across financial markets and industries.

The plugin uses the widget catalog from theFinancials.com — a trusted financial data provider since 1996. You choose the Market, Widget Type, Size/Shape, and preferred embed Method (JavaScript or iframe). Perfect if you need a market data widget, ticker widget, or financial charts for your website. Open theFinancials from the WordPress admin menu to configure global settings, or use the theFinancials Embed block to edit directly in the block sidebar. Key Features

• Daily updates for hundreds of popular financial instruments in web-ready widgets.
• Catalog-driven: Markets, Widgets, and Sizes come directly from theFinancials catalog (no manual updates).
• Two embed methods: JavaScript or iframe (Ticker always JavaScript).
• Block editor support with live preview.
• Global or per-block configuration — your most recent save becomes current.
• Shortcode generator with copy-and-paste ready code.
• Security-first: fetches data only from theFinancials.com subdomains.
• All widgets are free. (For Custom Widgets contact info@mail.thefinancials.com)

1. Upload the ZIP file via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, then activate.
2. Go to theFinancials in the admin menu and select your Market, Widget, Size/Shape, and Method.
3. For iframe installs you can set iframe Height (px) (default 500).
4. Click Save Changes. Your shortcode will appear under Install via Shortcode.
5. Add the widget by either:
6. Inserting the theFinancials Embed block in the editor, or
7. Pasting the shortcode into a page or post.

Shortcode Example Use the generated shortcode from the settings page, or supply attributes explicitly: [tfcwidgets4wp market="POP" title="US Market Overview" size="H" method="iframe" height="640"] Attributes:

• market – Market ID from the catalog (e.g., POP)
• title – Widget title exactly as shown in the catalog
• size – Size/Shape ID (T, S, C, M, F, H, P)
• method – JavaScript or iframe (Ticker always uses JavaScript)
• height – Optional pixels for iframe method (defaults to 500 if not set)

3.0.10

• Corrected install ping URL

3.0.9

• Added a one-time, anonymous install ping to theFinancials.com to help understand adoption and maintain compatibility (documented under “External Services → What Data Is Sent and When”).
• No personal data (such as user names or email addresses) is sent as part of this ping.

3.0.8

• Updated block registration to use apiVersion 3 for compatibility with WordPress 6.9+.
• Marked plugin as tested up to WordPress 6.9.

3.0.7

• Documented front-end JavaScript method (inline output for in-place execution).
• Added PHPCS ignore (NonEnqueuedScript) scoped to front-end branch with reviewer comments.
• All admin/editor assets remain enqueued via WordPress APIs.

3.0.6.12

• Admin settings JavaScript enqueued via admin_enqueue_scripts; data passed with wp_add_inline_script.
• Added PHPCS ignore annotations for preview standalone HTML (/ lines).

3.0.6.11

• Fixed: Readme header mismatch (Requires at least: 6.3) and trimmed short description (<150 chars).
• Aligned JS text domain to match plugin text domain.

3.0.6.10

• Fixed: Admin Widget & Size/Shape dropdowns repopulate correctly.
• Ensured catalog JSON is printed on the settings page.
• Prefix cleanup and documentation alignment.

3.0.6.9

• Standardized prefix to tfcwidgets4wp (shortcode, options, AJAX, handles, block namespace).
• Hardened escaping for JSON output using wp_json_encode with HEX flags.
• Maintained “External Services” disclosure.
• Documentation updates.

3.0.2

• Shortcode now requires wid="...". Other attributes (market, title, size) are included for clarity.

3.0.1

• Added support for wid="NNNNNNNNNN" to target a widget by canonical ID.
• When wid is present, market/title/size are not required.
• Ticker WIDs always render in JavaScript mode.

2.6.6

• Marked stable.
• Block preview: JavaScript/Ticker via sandboxed iframe srcDoc; iframe method uses direct external iframe.
• Removed redundant heading inside preview; preserved standard block toolbar/selection.
• Consistent casing: theFinancials.

2.6.x (earlier)

• Catalog integration (Market → Widget → Size/Shape) using the canonical catalog.
• Security hardening: restricted remote fetches to theFinancials.com subdomains; sanitized/escaped admin output.