- Contributors: DanielSachs
- WP version at least: 2.9
- Tested up to: 3.5.1
- Stable tag: 2.1.2
A jQuery based News Ticker Displays a sliding or fading list of post titles, rss reeds or comments and excerpts with links to post. Starting from ver.2.0 the ticker can also be used as a featured posts image gallery
- Shows Featured Images, Excerpts, Dates and Titles of post.
- Ability to construct the output, to enable/dispable ticker item elements
- Displays Most Popular Posts over the last x days (via Wordpress.com Stats Plugin)
- Displays Most Commented Posts
- Displays Recent Posts
- Displays Recent Comments
- Displays Specific Posts (via post IDs)
- Allows to set any number of Posts to display
- Allows to add your default RSS feed, your Comments RSS or even an RSS feed from another site, like Twitter or your favorite news site.
- Option to filter Posts from selected categories
- Ticker Animation : Fade, Slide Up, Slide Down, Left, Right or Expand
- WPML Support
- And much more...
To view this plugin in action visit 18elements homepage.
- 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.
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.
For more info visit the plugin page
Interested in contributing? Fork it on GitHub.
= 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
= 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