Well, spent some off time playing with the blog, searching for a plugin that did not need cURL that would work with some stock quotes. (See the Stock and Twits page).
Got some things working but like a lot of things, I had to play and play to find something that worked ok.
Tried the GStock… looked good but did not give me a recent price… would link to the site and get it there but not on the side bar? guess it was cause I didn’t pay for it…
Tried several others that did not say they needed cURL but alas they really did once you dug deep or read the whole of the installation… ? pulled them out..
tried a couple that just broke the blog totally? like it would not load the page any further once it hit the bad widget.
finally settled on the Sanebull and typed in my stock watch list… mouse over and bam an update of that stock… (make sure you pull the mouse into the box or it will disappear)…well sometimes they don’t disappear? but eventually maybe. I may have adjusted the mouseover time too long?
And I stuck in an auto update stocktwits list… sure wish they had an option to just pull from my favorites list not all the twits… I need a limited interest. Maybe some one will get the hint and fix the stocktwits widget so you can specify the twits you want… the one I tried that has input, damn needs cURL and not going to do that…
Just another play evening with nothing else to do – but work – UGH!