No longer maintained. ZPT Metals is retired. Version 1.2.1 (January 2023) is the final release: no further updates, fixes or support will be published, and compatibility with current WordPress, WooCommerce and metals-api.com versions is not verified. The documentation stays here for existing installations.
ZPT Metals
v1.2.1 RetiredDisplay live and historical precious-metal rates (gold, silver, platinum and 36 more) with shortcodes, and auto-price WooCommerce products from them.
Shortcode
Use [zpt-metals] in any post, page or widget that accepts shortcodes. Combine the attributes below as needed.
| Attribute | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
type |
Yes | Which metal to show, for example gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium or ruthenium. Any metal listed on the Overview tab is accepted. |
base |
No | Currency for the rate, such as USD or GBP. Defaults to the currency chosen in the plugin settings. |
price-round |
No | Number of digits after the decimal point. Any integer. |
date |
No | Show the rate for a specific day instead of the latest. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |
date-format |
No | How the rate's date is printed, using PHP date format characters, for example Y-m-d or m-d-Y. |
Examples#
Latest gold rate in the default currency:
[zpt-metals type="gold"]Silver in British pounds, rounded to two decimals:
[zpt-metals type="silver" base="GBP" price-round="2"]Platinum on a given day, with the date shown as day-month-year:
[zpt-metals type="platinum" date="2022-03-01" date-format="d-m-Y"]WooCommerce auto pricing#
Edit a product, open the Auto pricing tab under Product data, enable it and choose a metal. The product price then follows that metal's rate at each scheduled refresh.