18elements News Ticker is a JQuery based WordPress plugin, which displays a sliding or fading list of your posts, rss feeds or comments and links back to them. By enabling the Images feature you can transform the News ticker into a featured post gallery with a single click.
What you can do with it?
- Display your Most Popular Posts over a chosen range of days.
- Display your Most Commented Posts
- Simply add your most Recent Posts
- Or Recent Comments
- You can even choose some Specific Posts to display
- Use the Category Filter to display post from a chosen category or any number of categories
- Use your default RSS feeds or even and external RSS feed, from any other site. You can use Twitter RSS too.
- Display your attached images.
- Display the custom excerpt, text and links etc.
To better control your News Ticker you can:
- Set any Number of Posts to display
- Or set the Ticker Length in characters so the ticker would fit your WordPress theme.
Thanks to the wonderful JQuery library you can also set the following parameters for your News Ticker:
- Ticker Speed
- Ticker Timeout which is the time between the fades or slides
- And of course the Ticker Animation to allow to to show your news or posts as inter-fading or sliding animation
You can grab your copy of the News Ticker HERE and of course tell us how we can improve it even further.
Installation
- Upload
news-tickerdirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Insert
<?php if ( function_exists('insert_newsticker') ) { insert_newsticker(); } ?>into your template file. - Activate the plugin via the Plugins menu.
- Configure options on the Options page (Settings > News Ticker menu).
Please note: if your theme doesn’t use wp_head(); function the ticker will display a simple list of items.
Frequently Asked Questions
News-Ticker Styling
The news ticker comes with unique classes and id’s for easy css styling
- The ticker is
id="news-ticker" - The date is
class="tickerDate" - The title is
class="tickerLink" - The excerpt is
class="tickerText"
Add these ids & classes to your themes CSS file for easy styling.
Changelog
= 2.1.2 =
- Added WPML support
= 2.1.1 =
- jQuery Cycle update
- Featured Image support
- Container resize ability based on ticker and content height
- Bugfix: stopped scrolling after one item
- Bugfix: removed depricated javascript init functions
= 2.1.0 =
- jQuery Cycle update
= 2.0 =
PLEASE NOTE! It is highly recommended to deactivate the plugin and to delete the files prior to v2.0 installation
- Displays images attached to the post
- New javascript handler
- Four more transitions added
- The ticker stops on hover
- Option to show/hide the image, the date and the excerpt of the post
- Added classes for easier ticker styling
= 1.5.0 =
- External RSS Feed option added
- Small bugfixes
= 1.0.2 =
- Better jQuery handling
- Added date display for tickers
= 1.0.1 =
- Small bug fixes
= 1.0 =
- initial release
Road Map
= 2.2 =
- Add option to create and select Featured Image sizes
- Add easy styling options
- Add pager option
= 2.3 =
- Add Custom Post Types support
= 3.0 =
- Complete rewrite
- Drop support for WordPress < 3.2
Interested in contributing? Fork it on GitHub.
How to set news ticker to open rss link in a new tab?
Thanks Daniel.
Thiis website is under contstruction. Where do I configure NewsTicker to tell it where the news scroll will appear? Does it appear in the sidebar, inside a post, in the footer, or where?
Please read the installation instructions: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/news-ticker/installation/
I have a problem of it showing only one item at a time. On our old site, you can see that we have several items in the news ticker scrolling across: http://www.adviservoice.com.au/
On my local development site, however, it only shows one news item at a time: http://i.imgur.com/LJAJ0.png
I fixed some issues with the plugin previously after we upgraded WordPress and you hadn’t had a new release yet. Now that you just released this one, I deleted my hacked plugin and upgraded fresh with your newest release. I’m really hoping there’s an easy solution for this and I don’t have do a rewrite again
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Andy, you need to put the ticker in a container with the width of your website and margin:0 auto. Hope this helps.
Hi and thanks for plugin! but i have a small question
i have installed this plugin but i cant find any widget to activate this? or how i can activate news on my home page? sorry for dump questions ;D
Currently there is no widget for the plugin. You need to add the code directly in your template files
I need to center the ticker on my site. It is left justified by default. How do i do this?