Quote from: Clark on February 16, 2012, 04:24:10 PM

Quote from: michaelsuede on February 16, 2012, 03:31:09 PM

That's a good idea, but more work than I'm willing to put into it at the moment.

I suppose we can just leave this "as is" for low to medium traffic blogs, but it is worth noting that high traffic sites should cache these results.

If someone updates the code snippet to cache against a MySQL database, I'll update the OP to include install instructions and the relevant code. Ideally this code should be wrapped in its own Wordpress widget and the MySQL script to setup the database cache should be set to install automatically with the install of the Widget from inside Wordpress, with the return variables from Mt. Gox being accessible by short code in the widget text field. This way people who have no technical knowledge would still be able to easily install the script.

It might be worthwhile to not even limit the short code variable results to a widget, but rather make them accessible from anywhere on the site, such as in headers, footers or post content.

It sounds like *somebody* needs to put together a suite of Wordpress plugins for various Bitcoin economic parameters: difficulty, # blocks, market cap, ticker.

That would be even more ideal hahah.

Unfortunately my code expertise does not lie with PHP, but rather .Net, so I'm not well suited to undertake such a task.

Perhaps someday I'll get around to learning the language and putting together a nice package like that. It would be nice if some pro-php people got around to this though. There's a lot of e-commerce and informational sites that could benefit from such a suite of Wordpress plugins.