Let me introduce my very first Widget for WordPress: YAACC, an Ajax powered currency converter ! Feel free to try the live version on the right sidebar. As you might have noticed, the user interface is dead-simple. The widget is also optimised with a smart caching system and with compressed javascript and css. The option panel of the widget let you customise the default currencies and the initial amount. Finally, this currency calculator allow you to cutomize the list of available currencies by commenting or uncommenting lines of the complete list of currencies (177 currencies).
Download YAACC, a free Ajax powered currency converter widget for WordPress ! Your ideas or questions are welcomed.
Changelog
- 20080301: 0.9.3 fixed a minor bug, fix for the title option, version and usage check
- 20070922: 0.9.2 fixed a glitch in the caching of ajax-working.gif.
- 20070909: 0.9.1 replaced the ajax-working.gif image with a transparent version.
Hi Kenji,
It appears that YAACC isn’t pulling the feed properly any more.
See your widget on the right-hand side.
The AJAX-working.gif keeps looping and the data feed doesn’t load.
Can you look into this?
Thanks for reading!
Hi Kenji,
the YAACC tool doesn’t seems loading for awhile.. COuld you please advice
thank you
Regrads,
Ivay
Hi,
Thanks for reporting the problem.
It turns out that the backend service I was using is down (domain temporarily parked). I will modify the endpoint connection if I can find an alternative solution that is also free. Or we can hope that the current service will be back in a few days.
You will not have to download/install a new version of the plugin.
Thanks for your patience.
Hi Kenji,
Have you thought of parsing Yahoo’s data?
eg. http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=EURUSD=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv
This example will grab the exchange rate from Yahoo, but it’s contained in a CSV.
Hope this helps.
Thanks all for the long wait.
I have finally fixed the backend. Your widgets should work again.
Let me know if you still have some problems.
Indonesian rupiah is not working… Could this be temporarily?
Effectivement, le widget “run” à nouveau
merci beaucoup kenji !
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The service that I am currently using does not have all the 177 currencies available (it currently has data for 40 currencies).
I am looking into other sources of information to grow that number up. I have a log that shows me the currencies for which the backend failed. I did found some candidates for Indonesian rupiah and other currencies that shows up in my log.
Please wait.
Clear, Kenji, I’ll wait.
I think I got that backend thingy pretty much ironed out. Give it some time as the local cache of your installation needs to be purged (about a day).
Let me know if you still have some currencies that are not working after that period.
I have added a request throttling feature on the backend to deal with what seems to be a rogue client (the local cache does not seem to be active for this particular client). If your install is clean, you should not notice any difference.
Let me know if this is not the case.
It works, thanks
where is the plugin fetching the currency rates from? is it fetching them daily?
Is there a way to fetch the data from Yahoo? The difference between the shown rate and the real rate is almost 3% now. It’s not accurate.
Ovidiu,
The plugin is fetching data from different sources, including Yahoo Finance on a daily basis.
Okoth,
The data rate used for USD to IDR conversion is obtained from data published by the European Central Bank. I have checked their rates versus others (Yahoo finance, Google’s integrated conversion) and they all differ! You would think that the conversion rate is somewhat approximately the same but nope…
I could bump up Yahoo Finance priority but then someone might ask me to prioritize ECB… Should I end up making an average of all the rates?!
I might have to issue a new version of the plugin where you could specify your preference for the currency rate data.
Let me know what you think.
Hi,
I am just wondering if your plugin can be used on a non widget enabled side bar? If so what is the php code for it?
Thanks a lot.
ps just saw the above comment, i think Yahoo Finance is the way to go.. i just think that most people use it!
こんにちは。あなたのwidgetを利用させていただいております。すばらしいwidgetです。かっこいいし。大好きです。ひとつ質問なのですが、最近私のサイトの利用者が増えたようで、widgetが利用できない状態であることが多いです。
Slow down! No more than 10 queries per 12hour(s). と表示されております。
解決策はありますでしょうか？
何回でも通貨換算をしていただけるように変更したいのですが。
お時間のある時によろしければ教えてください。
I need to embed this in a static page, not in a widgetized sidebar.
Is it possible?
Thanks.
Bonjour, je suis confronté à un problème avec votre plugin : une fois activé, sur mon blog j’ai l’erreur : error request status is 500. C’est très dommage car il est le seul qui me convienne. Si vous avez une solution !
Merci beaucoup
Bonjour, Gros problème avec ce widget, pas à l’instal mais sur le blog, il s’affiche à moitié, le loader tourne en continue et message d’erreur requete.
bonjour jai un probleme sur le fichier conversion_rate.php hébergé sur ton site … il cause une erreur
Jai laissé un pécedent commentaire mais ils ne saffiche pas