Modern News Ticker for WordPress

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 News items can be entered manually or WP posts can be used as news items Additionally WP posts can be used as a feed source It can load RSS and JSON feeds The feeds can be set to automatically refresh It has 30 settings available that control the content effects feeds and other behaviors It has 3 methods that control the autoplay and the feed refresh It is responsive It includes continued support and upgrades NEW RTL support This is the WordPress plugin version of the news ticker A jQuery plugin version is also available here Modern News Ticker Notes Beginning with 9 February 2023 the Twitter feed no longer works as Twitter restricted access to their formally free API Updates 1 9 0 20 March 2020 For news items entered through the admin UI added support for span tags so that sections of text can be formatted differently through CSS if needed Supported attributes for the span tag are id class and style Added a new setting called Random order in the Other metabox 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 Center align in the Other metabox to be able to set the news items to align to the center Applicable for effects other than Scroll 1 8 1 03 January 2020 Fixed an issue that was causing the tweet links not to open properly 1 8 0 14 November 2019 Added a new setting to the Twitter feed called Exclude Replies to be able to exclude replies from the returned feed Added a new setting to the Twitter feed called Include Retweets to be able to include retweets in the returned feed 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 1 7 0 26 September 2019 Added RTL support A new setting is available on the admin page of a ticker in the Other metabox called Direction that can be set to Left to right LTR default or Right to left RTL Moved the JS source file from the Sources js project folder to the modern-news-ticker public js plugin folder next to the minified version Fixed an issue with the news items height that was occurring in some themes Other small modifications 1 6 2 17 September 2019 Added a new option on the Settings page called rss2json API key to be able to specify an API key for the rss2json service if needed 1 6 1 11 May 2019 Fixed an error in the admin occurring in the recently released 5 2 version of WordPress 1 6 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 Fixed a bug that was causing the Post tags setting from the Feed metabox to be shown when not applicable 1 5 0 13 December 2018 Added an option to select post tags to the Posts feed Added a Tags column to the Add Posts modal Fixed a few minor bugs 1 4 1 10 August 2018 Fixed an error that was sometimes occurring on the admin page when saving a ticker in some older versions of PHP 1 4 0 28 March 2018 Added an option to select post categories to the Posts feed Added a Categories column to the Add Posts modal 1 3 0 12 March 2018 Added the possibility to add WP posts as news items Added a new feed option to be able to use WP posts as a feed source Fixed an issue that was causing the RSS feed not to load properly when using the rss2json service from a page on HTTPS Made an improvement to the admin JS files so that errors from unrelated JS files no longer sometimes stop them from being run properly Fixed an issue that was causing not all created tickers to show sometimes in the shortcode insert modal Fixed an issue that was causing not all created tickers to show sometimes in the widget dropdown Other small modifications and improvements 1 2 0 19 July 2017 Improved the code comments for the main plugin file Fixed an issue that was causing the post type single page not to work properly without updating the permalinks Improved the way the JSON feed is loaded when Load type set to Process Made improvements to the insert modal look and code A few other small code improvements 1 1 0 8 June 2017 Fixed an issue that was causing the shortcode content not to be displayed in the proper place sometimes Fixed an issue that was causing the ticker post page not to display properly in some older versions of PHP installs Improved the code so that the same ticker with the same ID can now be added multiple times on the same page Improved the code so that the ticker CSS file is only loaded when the shortcode is used on the page Improved the update functionality so that it is no longer required to deactivate the plugin when updating the files Added support to be able to install the Envato Market plugin from an admin notification This can be used to easily install and update any of your Envato WP projects including the ticker Made a series of other small modifications and improvements 1 0 0 6 May 2017 Launched