Do you sell goods or services online worldwide? If so, then you should consider providing users with the convenience of currency conversion on your website.
Currency conversion tools let your prospective customers have the price of a foreign currency amount translated into their home currency when checking out products on e-commerce sites. It also lets customers see the exact amount their card or PayPal account will be charged, displayed in their own home currency.
One advantage of adding currency conversion to your website is that it allows customers to view and understand prices in foreign countries in their own home currency, making it it easier for purchasers to calculate their costs and expenses.
If your site is powered by WordPress, it’s easy and simple to add a currency conversion plugin to currency conversion to your site using a plugin, allowing your site visitors to easily perform currency conversions to determine the cost of your goods.
Currencyr – Free Currency Conversion Plugin For WordPress
Currencyr is a simple yet advanced, intuitive, easy-to-use and complete currency converter WordPress plugin with a unique converter tooltip. Best of all, it’s free to install and use on your WP website.
This plugin features:
- Inline conversion tool
- Supports several exchange rates providers, like Yahoo!, Open Exchange Rates and European Central Bank
- Supports Shortcodes
- Currency table and converter widget
- Can be integrated with various e-commerce plugins like WooCommerce and Shopp.
- Automatically detects local currency
- Full language translation support
Note: The Currencyr plugin requires your server to be running PHP 5.3.0 or later. Do not use this plugin if you currently have an older version of PHP installed. Ask your webhosting provider to upgrade your PHP.
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You can install the Currencyr plugin from your WordPress dashboard by searching for “currencyr” in the Plugins screen and clicking “Install Now” …
When the plugin has been installed and activated, you can visit the plugin’s settings by selecting Currencyr from your WP administration navigation menu …
This takes you to the plugin settings area …
For example, you can choose a base currency from a drop-down menu. The default base currency is ’USD’ …
You can also select which data provider you want to use from a drop-down menu. The default provider is ‘Yahoo! Finance’, but you can also select one of the other options, like European Central Bank, FoxRate, Google Finance or Open Exchange Rates …
Note: If you choose Open Exchange Rates, you will need an API (Application Programming Interface) ID …
You can specify how frequently you would like the currency exchange rates to update by selecting an option from the ‘Update Rates’ dropdown menu …
The Currencyr plugin uses jQuery, which lets web developers add things like animation effects to web applications (such as WordPress plugins).
If you have no reason to modify the jQuery settings, simply ignore this option …
Edit the rest of the settings to suit your preferences and don’t forget to click the ‘Save Changes’ button when finished …
After you have configured your settings, you can easily add currency conversion to any WordPress post using shortcodes.
See the ‘Additional Plugin Notes’ section below to learn how to use currency codes (e.g. USD, NZD, CAD, etc …) in the Currencyr plugin.
Using Shortcodes
You can easily insert currency conversion into WordPress pages, posts and widgets without touching your web templates using shortcodes.
Let’s take a look at some examples of currency shortcodes that you can add to posts and pages:
Let’s say that you sell an item for a fixed price (e.g. $175) in US Dollars (USD), and you want to display this price converted into British pounds (GBP) on your sales page.
To do this, just add the following shortcode to your post or page …
Note: You can also insert pricing in dollars and cents (e.g. 19.95, 97.00, 295.75, etc …)
The screenshot below shows how the shortcode will look once you have added it to your post or page …
Once the information has been published, the currency conversion will then appear like this …
Using the same example, let’s now convert the same price into different currencies.
To do this, use the shortcode below (add as many currency symbols as you like by using vertical pipes) …
The screenshot below shows how the above shortcode looks when added to your content …
After publishing the page, your converted currency amounts will then appear as seen below …
refer to the ‘Additional Plugin Notes’ section further below to learn how to change the currency separator symbol in this plugin.
Now, let’s say that you would like to specify a different base currency than the one selected as your default.
For example, if you have specified your default base currency as EUR and you have a section on your e-commerce pages targeted to non-European visitors (for example, Australia or Canada), you can change the base currency using the following shortcode …
The example below shows how the shortcode looks when added to your content …
After publishing your information, the currency conversion will then appear like this …
Currencyr Widget
You can also insert a currency converter into your site’s sidebar using the Currencyr widget.
To add currency conversion to your sidebar, choose Appearance > Widgets from your WP user admin menu …
In the Widgets > Available Widgets section find the ‘Currencyr’ widget and drag it to an Active Widgets location …
Configure the widget settings as shown in the screenshot below (add the currency codes you want to display on your widget separated by commas), and click Save to update your settings …
Your currency converter will now display on your site’s sidebar with the options you have specified when configuring the widget …
Additional Plugin Notes
This section contains additional information about using the plugin.
Currency Separator
The Currencyr plugin allows you to specify the symbol to display as the currency separator when using several currencies.
You can select a different symbol in the ‘Multiple Separator’ settings field.
So, for example, using the default symbol “/” (forward slash) …
Separates all your prices with the forward slash as shown below …
If you select another symbol and resave your settings …
Your site visitors will see the new symbol display as the currency separator …
Integration With e-Commerce Platforms
As described earlier, the plugin integrates with a number of WP-compatible e-commerce plugins such as WooCommerce, WP-eCommerce and Shopp …
(image source: Currencyr plugin site)
And there you have it! Now you can go and easily add a currency converter to your e-commerce website.
To learn more about WordPress e-commerce plugins, see the tutorial below:
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