Description
VideoWhisper Cashtag Links turns eligible financial cashtags such as $AAPL and $MSFT in enabled singular content types into direct research links. Select Yahoo Finance, Stocktwits, Finviz, Seeking Alpha, or X search; configure a custom HTTPS destination; add symbol-specific mappings; and optionally let readers choose another enabled destination.
Automatic linking is disabled until an administrator enables it. Original post content is never changed. The plugin does not fetch quotes, maintain a market-data catalog, require an account, or make a background request to a financial provider.
Cashtags are not universal instrument identifiers. The default matcher is deliberately conservative and does not validate a ticker. For mixed technical and investing content, use strict registry-only mode and configure the symbols you cover.
External services
The plugin itself sends no visitor data to an external service. When a visitor clicks an enabled research link, their browser navigates directly to the selected provider. Site owners choose which providers to enable.
- Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/ — https://legal.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/otos/index.html and https://legal.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/privacy/index.html
- Stocktwits: https://stocktwits.com/ — https://stocktwits.com/terms and https://stocktwits.com/privacy
- Finviz: https://finviz.com/ — https://finviz.com/terms.ashx and https://finviz.com/privacy.ashx
- Seeking Alpha: https://seekingalpha.com/ — https://seekingalpha.com/page/terms-of-use and https://seekingalpha.com/page/privacy_policy
- X search: https://x.com/ — https://x.com/tos and https://x.com/privacy
These are third-party research/discussion destinations, not investment advice. Availability, account requirements, regional restrictions, and provider content are controlled by each provider.
Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/or install its ZIP from Plugins > Add New. - Activate VideoWhisper Cashtag Links.
- Open Settings > Cashtag Links, choose at least one destination, select the content types, and enable automatic linking when ready.
Use [vw_cashtag symbol="AAPL"] to add one explicit link. Use [vw_cashtag_list] in a post or page to list symbols detected from that article’s saved content.
Posts and pages are selected by default. Public custom post types can be selected in Settings > Cashtag Links. Market suffixes such as $VVSM.DE and $IQE.L are recognized by default. Lower-case cashtags and numeric market symbols such as $9988.HK are opt-in matching formats because they have a higher false-positive risk. You can also append the symbol list after eligible article content in the settings.
FAQ
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Are existing posts changed?
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No. Links are added only to rendered content and disappear when the plugin is disabled or removed.
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Does the plugin provide market prices?
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No. It creates direct links only. It does not call a quote API or display market data.
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How do I avoid false positives?
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Use the ignored-symbol list, per-post disable control,
vwcl-ignoreCSS class ordata-vwcl-ignoreattribute, or strict registry-only mode. -
Configure an explicit registry mapping or use the shortcode. The automatic matcher intentionally does not guess an exchange, coin ID, or provider symbol.
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Contributors & Developers
“VideoWhisper Cashtag Links” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
0.1.0
- Initial link-only release.