Loan Comparison
aerin By aerin

July 22, 2024

Loan Comparison Plugin

A simple way to compare loans from banks and other providers. Uses sliders to set the amount and term and display the number of matching banks.

A lightweight responsive plugin that displays loan repayment information from an unlimited number of banks and other providers

Using the settings you can manage the slider ranges, bank data, labels and notices.

There is even an optional loan application form.

Bespoke versions are available.

Features

  • Uses any currency
  • Set the max, min, initial and step values on the sliders
  • Display monthly and total repayments
  • Set interest rates and other bank data
  • Change the labels on all outputs
  • Show bank rating
  • Add an optional admin fee to the total to pay
  • Include a ‘more info’ section for each bank

Upgrade to Premium

  • Display up to 10 independent comparison tables
  • Change and order the data outputs
  • Bank page creator
  • Bar charts
  • Results filtering
  • Sorting option
  • Promo ribbons
  • Features and checkboxes
  • Add a message to show the number of results
  • Limit the number of results to display (adds a button to show all results)

Developer’s plugin pages

Demo
Settings
Support
Loan Application Form

Installation

  1. Login to your wordpress dashboard.
  2. Go to ‘Plugins’, ‘Add New’ then search for ‘Loan comparisons’.
  3. Follow the on screen instructions.
  4. Activate the plugin.
  5. To use the plugin in your posts and pages add the shortcode [loancomparison].
  6. Change the options in the plugin settings page.

Screenshots

  1. The loan comparison table

    The loan comparison table

  2. Barcharts

    Barcharts

  3. Bank settings

    Bank settings

  4. Custom layout example

    Custom layout example

Changelog

2.0

  • Cleaned up a load of code
  • Updated the settings layout (easier to manage)
  • Added new filters and data validation
  • Improved credit score CSS

1.6.2

  • CSS Bug fix

1.6.1

  • Security Update

1.6

  • Fixed multiple bank selection bug
  • Fixes authorisation boolean error
  • Fixes missing shortcode attribute
  • Corrects order of credit score colours
  • Fixes credit score filtering
  • Fixes CSS conflict

1.5.3

  • Fixes security bugs. Credits for the identification goes to Lana Codes and WPScan team.

1.5.2

  • Fixes credit rating bug

1.5.1

  • Fixes division by zero bug
  • PHP 8.0 compatibility

1.5

  • Now with 25 tables
  • Option to show info boxes as checks
  • Bargraph JS only loaded where necessary
  • Adds filter to check bank min values
  • Fixes missing label in the column sorting options.
  • CSS update to resolve bank name alignment
  • Fixed a whole load of missing indexes
  • Reduced the DOM size by half

1.4.1

  • Added bank data filters to prevent JavaScript errors

1.4

  • Fixes ‘other info’ and ‘apply now’ bugs
  • Missing rating stars are back
  • Option to hide apply now button
  • Language support now works

1.3

  • New bank filter option
  • Option to display bank name/alt text above the bank data
  • Filter label style options
  • Option for simple interest
  • Option to remove settings filters
  • Display results on a new page
  • Up to 15 filters
  • Editable credit scores
  • Fixes max term bug
  • Redesigned settings UI – simpler to manage checks, ribbons and filters.

1.2

  • Option to only allow single filters
  • Credit scores
  • Up to six filters, checks and ribbons
  • New ‘more’ info column
  • Rounding option
  • Set the number of ‘Show More’ results
  • Removes import CSV option (now an extension plugin)

1.1

  • Show filters as a dropdown
  • Min and Max repayments and totals
  • Calculate fixed and percentage fees
  • Fixes missing CSV fields
  • Column sorting
  • Decimal commas and a dot for the thousands separator

1.0

  • Send loan info as a URL query.
  • Select and order the columns.
  • Fixes checkbox bug
  • Optional loan application form

0.8

  • Bank Data Importer
  • Bank page creation tool
  • Optional promo banners/ribbons on the corner of each bank
  • Option to add a ‘sponsored’ label

0.7

  • Whole load of bug fixes
  • Options for nofollow and new tab on links
  • Set the maximum number of rating stars to display
  • Display example text
  • Improved layout on small screens

0.6

  • Option for singular and plural term labels
  • Set the currency before or after amount
  • Thousands Separator
  • Different links for logo and button
  • Titles and feature checks
  • Improved CSS
  • Form styling tab
  • Bar Charts

0.5

  • Fixes missing link URL
  • Fixes CSS bug on apply now button

0.4

  • Fixes folder naming bug
  • Fixes sorting on bank list

0.3

  • Initial Issue

Details

  • Version: 2.0
  • Active installations: 400
  • WordPress Version: 6.0
  • Tested up to: 6.5.5

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