Modern News Ticker

Description

Description Modern News Ticker is a powerful flexible fast easy to use and customize news ticker It offers a varied number of features while still being lightweight and very easy to work with It comes with 15 different themes to choose from It has 4 different effects scroll fade type and slide It has 4 different layouts that include news items front label and control buttons The corners can be set to either round or square It can load RSS and JSON feeds The feeds can be set to automatically refresh It has 21 settings that control the effects the feeds and other behaviors It has 3 methods that control the autoplay and the feed refresh It is responsive It comes with a detailed guide NEW RTL support This is the jQuery plugin version of the news ticker A WordPress plugin version is also available here Modern News Ticker for WordPress Notes Beginning with 9 February 2023 the Twitter feed no longer works as Twitter restricted access to their formally free API Updates 2 5 0 20 March 2020 Added a new setting called randomOrder to be able to set the news items to display in a random order This applies for both the news items entered manually as well as for those loaded from feeds Added a new setting called centerAlign to be able to set the news items to align to the center Applicable for effects other than scroll 2 4 1 03 January 2020 Fixed an issue that was causing the tweet links not to open properly 2 4 0 14 November 2019 Added a new setting called twitterExcludeReplies to be able to exclude replies from the returned Twitter feed default false Added a new setting called twitterIncludeRetweets to be able to include retweets in the returned Twitter feed default false Made the feed preloader show a bit faster Added a Changelog txt file and moved here the version changes that were previously listed in the Readme txt file 2 3 0 26 September 2019 Added RTL support A new setting is available called direction in which the page text direction can be specified either ltr default or rtl Moved the JS source file from Sources js to Main modern-ticker js next to the minified version Other small modifications 2 2 1 17 September 2019 Added a new setting called rss2jsonApiKey to be able to specify an API key for the rss2json service if needed 2 2 0 15 January 2019 As Yahoo recently shutdown the YQL service the YQL load process type for RSS feeds was removed The rss2json load process is now the default one for RSS feeds and the self load process is also available as a backup As backward compatibility if the ticker has the load process set to YQL it automatically defaults to rss2json 2 1 0 07 March 2018 Fixed an issue that was causing the preloader not to show properly in some browsers when set to load a feed Fixed an issue that was causing the news items not to display properly when loading feeds and linksEnabled set to false Modified the theme CSS files so that the styles have higher specificity to make it less likely to be overwritten by other page styles Fixed an issue that was causing the RSS feed not to load properly when using the rss2json service from a page on HTTPS Other small modifications and improvements 2 0 0 24 April 2017 Updated the project folder structure Updated the example files Updated the guide Updated the Read Me file Added version numbering Added an Updates section to the Read Me file Made updates to the CSS files Made updates to the JS plugin file Added error messages to feeds Updated jQuery to the latest version Added option to the example files to load jQuery from a CDN Added support for having only arrows buttons or only the play pause button Changed the file structure of the themes to reuse common image files and have less files overall Updated the Twitter authentication instructions of the guide to match with changes to the Twitter site Fixed a bug that was causing the JSON files not to bypass cache when the option was turned on Added a new option to process the loading of RSS and JSON files called self that uses PHP files to load the feeds through Added 2 new files load-rss php and load-json php Changed the name of the twitter php file to load-twitter php Added 2 new settings rssLoadFile and jsonLoadFile Changed the name of the twitterLoadingFile setting to twitterLoadFile Added backward compatibility support for the former name Changed the name of the processService setting to loadProcess Added backward compatibility support for the former name Changed the default width to 100 in the CSS code Added default min-width and max-width values to the CSS code Added a default margin to the CSS code Added a new class to the CSS file called mt-font to use the ticker font as opposed to the default page font 1 10 0 2 March 2017 Added support for loading data using a JSON feed 1 9 0 15 January 2017 Important The Google Feed API that the ticker was using has been closed recently I have removed it and have added 2 other RSS processing services one as default and the other as an alternative Anyone who is using RSS loading width loadType process should update to the new version of the JS file All that you need to do is to replace the old jquery modern-ticker min js file from the modern-ticker js folder with the new one 1 8 0 5 August 2016 Improved the typing effect functionality HTML tags inside the typed text are now supported so that the typed text can have different styles Fixed an error that was causing the typing effect not to display properly when switching back and forth fast between news items 1 7 0 29 September 2015 Improved the way RSS loading works Fixed an issue that was causing some RSS urls not to work properly Added a new setting called forceNoCache to bypass loading cached RSS files if needed Added console error messages for the process load type 1 6 1 18 December 2014 Fixed an issue that was causing the links not to display properly when loading an RSS file directly 1 6 0 6 September 2014 Added a new setting to specify if the autoplay pauses when hovering over the news Added a new setting to specify if the news items have the links enabled Fixed an issue that was causing the preloader not to be properly visible when loading data 1 5 1 2 September 2014 Fixed an error where empty news items were displayed if the feedCount was higher than the available number of news items Improved the way that the feedCount setting works in order to be able to load the total available items or a variable number of items up to a specified limit 1 5 0 10 May 2014 Improved the way that the layout works Improved the layout behaviour when the ticker is responsive Fixed an issue in page layouts with subpixel precision Fixed an issue with the news items stacking on top of each other Added a new setting to specify the target page of links for loaded content Added a new setting to specify the path to the Twitter loading file Updated the files and instructions with the new Twitter API key names Updated the initialization code Updated the guide Updated jQuery to the newest version 1 4 0 13 February 2014 Improved the RSS file loading options Now there are 2 loading options available Added an example RSS file Updated the instructions Updated the guide Fixed a couple of bugs 1 3 0 10 February 2014 Added a new setting to specify the type of scrolling either continuous with no interruption or discontinuous leaving empty space once the list finishes scrolling and before starting again Added a new setting to specify the start position of the scrolling either from inside or from outside 1 2 3 22 August 2013 Fixed a bug that was causing the news not to display properly when the width was set as responsive and the window was resized 1 2 2 15 August 2013 Updated the code of the effects so that the first list items animate as well Fixed a bug that was causing a delay in the refresh of the loaded RSS feed 1 2 1 26 June 2013 Made an update to the Twitter feed functionality to work with the 1 1 update of the Twitter API 1 2 0 13 February 2013 Added a setting to control the automatic refresh of dynamically loaded data at an interval of time Added a method to be able to call the refresh through code if needed 1 1 0 9 February 2013 Updated the guide Updated the code Updated instructions Updated file structure 1 0 0 21 May 2012 Launched