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:

• Seven research content areas: daily market, equity, sector, macroeconomic, corporate results, dividends, and fixed income.
• 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.

CSV market-mover imports expect three columns: Symbol, Price, Percentage. Enter the change as the numeric value only (for example, 12.45), without +, -, or %; the plugin automatically displays the correct direction for Gainers and Losers. Quoted CSV values are supported, including prices containing commas.

• 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.

Legacy Fixed Income Entry

The Fixed Income repeater inside Daily Market Reports is retained for compatibility with existing workflows. New instruments can also be managed under Research Hub > Fixed Income. Legacy entries remain supported and are synchronized with the dedicated Fixed Income records.