Sound Money Info Quotes Widget displays live precious metals and sound money pricing in a clean, customizable ticker for WordPress sites. The plugin retrieves pricing data from trusted third-party sources on a scheduled basis, caches the results locally within WordPress, and renders fast, reliable quote displays without requiring per-page remote API calls.

Quotes are refreshed automatically in the background and displayed on the front end using a lightweight REST render endpoint. Site owners can choose between a static placement or a scrolling (marquee-style) ticker, customize styling, control refresh behavior, and selectively display specific metals or pricing instruments.

Pricing data is provided for informational and educational purposes only and is not intended to represent real-time trading or execution prices.

Highlights
* Scheduled background pricing updates with local WordPress caching
* No remote API calls on page load once data is cached
* Static or scrolling (marquee-style) ticker display
* Front-end refresh via REST render endpoint
* Shortcode-based configuration with styling and behavior controls
* Selective display of specific metals and pricing instruments
* Compatible with full-page caching, optimization plugins, and CDNs

This plugin was developed in partnership with SoundMoneyInfo.com and the Citizens for Sound Money as part of an ongoing effort to improve public access to transparent sound money pricing information.

Data Sources, Pricing Calculations, and Update Schedule

The Sound Money Info Quotes Widget displays precious metals and sound money pricing based on a combination of public market data, published issuer rates, and aggregated dealer pricing. Prices are informational only and are not intended to represent real-time trading or execution quotes.

Pricing updates generally follow the COMEX trading schedule and do not update during weekends or during the daily COMEX one-hour trading break, except where issuer- or dealer-published pricing is used.

Update frequency and calculation methods are as follows:

Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, and Copper Spot Prices
Updated every 5 minutes using the latest available COMEX market data.
Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium Price per Gram
Calculated by dividing the respective spot price by 31.1 (grams per troy ounce).
Copper per Ounce
Calculated by dividing the spot price of copper by 16 (copper is quoted per avoirdupois pound, with 16 ounces per pound).
Aurum Pricing
Calculated by dividing the gold spot price by 31,103 (milligrams per troy ounce) and multiplying by 2 to reflect the commonly applied milligram gold (MG) market markup.
Gold Eagle, Silver Eagle, and Platinum Eagle Pricing
Calculated by polling publicly listed prices from major online precious metals dealers and averaging the lowest available prices across the top listings. Dealers may include nationally recognized bullion retailers such as APMEX, SD Bullion, and comparable sources.
Goldback Pricing
Updated once daily based on the officially published exchange rate provided by Goldback, Inc.
Kinesis KAU and KAG
Pricing is sourced directly from the Kinesis Monetary System (Kinesis) API.

All pricing data is cached within WordPress and refreshed on a scheduled basis. Front-end display refresh intervals do not increase external API usage.

Pricing data is provided for educational and informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for trading or investment decisions.

External Services

This plugin connects to an external API to obtain pricing data that is required to render the ticker.

Service: Sound Money Info Quotes Data API
What it is used for: Returns the latest precious metals and sound money pricing payload used by this plugin.
What data is sent and when:
- The plugin sends an HTTP GET request from your WordPress server to https://api.idealmsp.com/webhook/c4sm/.
- This request is made on a scheduled basis (every 5 minutes via WP-Cron) and may also run on first use if no cached pricing data exists.
- No personal user data is intentionally sent. Like any outbound HTTP request, your server IP address and a standard WordPress user agent string may be transmitted as part of the connection.
This service is provided by “Ideal Managed Solutions, LLC” Terms of Use / Privacy Policy

The plugin caches the API response locally in WordPress. Front-end refreshes retrieve rendered HTML from your own site via a REST endpoint and do not contact the external API.

Usage

Use the shortcode:

[smiqw_ticker]

The shortcode outputs a live precious metals quotes ticker using cached pricing data.

Shortcode Attributes

precision
Number of decimal places to display for prices.
Default: 2
bg
Background color of the ticker container.
Default: #0f172a
color
Text color for quote values and labels.
Default: #e2e8f0
border_color
Border color for the ticker container. Set to none to disable the border.
Default: #e2e8f0
font_size
Base font size (in pixels) for quote text.
Default: 16
refresh_sec
Front-end refresh interval in seconds. This controls how often the displayed data is refreshed from cached values and does not increase API usage.
Minimum: 5
Default: 60
scroll
Enable the scrolling (marquee-style) ticker.
Accepted values: 1, true
Default: off (static placement)
scroll_speed
Controls the speed of the scrolling ticker. Higher values scroll faster.
Range: 1–100
Default: 70
show_metals
Optional comma-separated list of metal groups to display. If omitted, all available quotes are shown.

Supported values:
– AU (Gold quotes)
– AG (Silver quotes)
– PT (Platinum quotes)
– PD (Palladium quotes)
– CU (Copper quotes)
– GB (Goldback quote)
– AURUM (Aurum quote)
– KINESIS (Kinesis KAU and KAG)

Examples

Static ticker with custom styling:

[smiqw_ticker precision=”2″ bg=”#0b1220″ color=”#f8fafc” border_color=”none” font_size=”15″]

Scrolling ticker with slower speed and longer refresh interval:

[smiqw_ticker scroll=”true” scroll_speed=”40″ refresh_sec=”90″]

Display only gold, silver, and Goldback quotes:

[smiqw_ticker show_metals=”AU,AG,GB”]