Spindle Market Research Hub

Spindle Market Research Hub provides a structured research and market-data workspace for WordPress. A modular financial research dashboard for WordPress, built for publishing market reports, equity research, sector reports, macroeconomic reports, corporate results, dividend records, and market summary data.

Features include:

• Six research content areas: daily market, equity, sector, macroeconomic, corporate results, and dividends.
• Frontend research dashboard with tabbed navigation.
• NGX All Share Index chart with 1D, 5D, 1M, and YTD views.
• Sector performance chart.
• Top gainers and top losers with price and percentage change.
• Market capitalization, turnover volume, and turnover value, with snapshot metrics shown only when their corresponding values are supplied.
• Fixed-income instruments.
• Foreign exchange rates.
• Macroeconomic indicators.
• Daily market summaries and downloadable price-list/report files.
• Market data search and TradingView-powered market widgets.

• ACF-powered structured data entry and CSV-assisted market data management.

• The plugin uses Advanced Custom Fields PRO for its structured content fields.

• The plugin displays an admin notice on its Research Hub and research-entry screens when ACF PRO is not installed and active.
• Administrator-controlled Google Fonts dropdowns for a consistent frontend and plugin-admin typography system, with Josefin Sans for body/text and Poppins for headings by default, plus separate admin-area toggles for each selected font. Snapshot labels intentionally follow the body/text family so the default snapshot typography remains Josefin Sans.
• The market ticker speed is administrator-controlled and remains independent of the number of gainers or losers supplied.
• Frontend snapshot/ticker styles are loaded early when their shortcodes are present to avoid an unstyled-content flash.

External Services

This plugin can connect to third-party services to provide market visualization, embedded market information, and administrator-selected typography.

Google Fonts

The typography settings provide administrator-selectable Google Fonts dropdowns for body/text and headings. The selected font stylesheet is requested from Google’s Fonts service when the plugin’s frontend or plugin-admin screens are displayed. The selected typography is applied consistently to the plugin frontend and plugin administration screens.

Service: https://fonts.google.com/
Terms: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy
Privacy information: https://policies.google.com/privacy

TradingView

TradingView is used for embedded market widgets and market-data visualizations where enabled by the plugin. TradingView may receive the visitor’s browser request when a TradingView widget is displayed.

Service: https://www.tradingview.com/
Terms of use: https://www.tradingview.com/policies/
Privacy: https://www.tradingview.com/privacy-policy/

Chart.js

Chart.js 4.5.1 is bundled locally with the plugin and is used by the frontend charting layer.

Chart.js project: https://www.chartjs.org/
License: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/blob/master/LICENSE.md

For WordPress.org directory distribution, non-service JavaScript dependencies should be bundled with the plugin rather than loaded from a third-party CDN.

Source Code

Source code and development history: https://github.com/adedayospindles/spindle-market-research

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0 or later.
• PHP 7.4 or later.
• Advanced Custom Fields PRO installed and activated. The free ACF plugin alone is not sufficient because the plugin uses ACF PRO Repeater fields.

Shortcodes

The plugin provides three frontend shortcodes:

[market_research_dashboard]

Displays the Research Hub dashboard, including the dashboard tabs, NGX All Share Index chart, sector performance, market data, reports, price lists, market summaries, corporate results, dividends, and market-data search.

[market_research_home_snapshot]

Displays a compact four-column market snapshot with the NGX All-Share Index, top gainer, top loser, and a MARKET TURNOVER & SIZE panel. Volume, Value, and Cap are displayed on one line with their corresponding values underneath; any metric that has no supplied value is omitted.

[market_research_price_ticker]

Displays the market price ticker with supported NGX market movement information.

Use the shortcodes independently. You do not need to place all three on the same page.