Title: Live updates:
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Live updates:

 *  Resolved [dpskipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpskipper/)
 * (@dpskipper)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/live-updates/)
 * Hi,
    I have a website that hosts a Minecraft server, and I was wondering how 
   to post live updates from an external source, and have it update live on the 
   site as a widget or some short-codes. Any suggestions?

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 *  [linux4me2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linux4me2/)
 * (@linux4me2)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/live-updates/#post-4171019)
 * When I need to do this, I usually write a little PHP script to grab the data 
   from the external source and write the HTML to a file, then set up a cron job
   on the server to run the PHP script at the interval I want to use to update the
   data. You can also see if the external source offers an RSS feed or some API 
   to get the data you want. It really depends on the nature of the external source
   and the kind of HTML output you want.
 *  Thread Starter [dpskipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpskipper/)
 * (@dpskipper)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/live-updates/#post-4171215)
 * In the end just made a Facebook account, found a widget that grabs the current
   mood of the account on question and relays that data to wp

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 * [Updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updates/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [dpskipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpskipper/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/live-updates/#post-4171215)
 * Status: resolved

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