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How to Add a News Ticker in WordPress

Last updated on July 11th, 2014 by Editorial Staff
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How to Add a News Ticker in WordPress

News tickers sometimes referred to as slides are located at the bottom of most television news networks to highlight breaking news, daily trends, etc. You can use a news ticker on your WordPress website to highlight special deals, popular posts, or anything else. In this article, we will show you how to add a rotating or scrolling news ticker in WordPress.

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First thing you need to do is install and activate the Ditty News Ticker plugin. Upon activation, the plugin adds a News Ticker menu item in your WordPress admin. Bring your mouse over to the menu item and click on the Add New link to add a news ticker.

On the next screen, you will have the ability give this particular news ticker a name, ticker text and link. For each ticker, you can add as many ticker items as you like. If you want to add another ticker item, then press the green + button to add the next item on the ticker. Once you are done adding ticker items, scroll down to Ticker Mode. There are three different ticker modes available. Scroll, rotate, and list. The scroll mode is the default one because it is the most commonly used in television networks. Rotate is another good option if you want to show one ticker at a time.

Adding news ticker items

If you want to adjust the behavior of the news ticker, then scroll down to the Scroll settings panel. This panel allows you to configure scroll speed and dimensions. You can also choose the spacing between each ticker items and pause items when a user brings their mouse over the ticker.

News ticker scroll settings

The plugin generates a shortcode as well as a PHP function for each news ticker you create. You can either use the shortcode inside a post, page, sidebar widget, or you can directly insert the PHP function in your theme files.

News ticker shortcode and php function

Once you insert the ticker shortcode or PHP function, then it should work. We hope that this article helped you add a news ticker to your WordPress website. Would you use a news ticker on your website, or do you rather prefer our sticky floating footer bar? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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  1. karbhari says:
    Jun 6, 2018 at 2:47 am

    How do i add the Latest News: title to the scrolling news, after header in main page it shows on my site.

    Reply
  2. Anna Sue says:
    Apr 13, 2018 at 12:22 pm

    Where do you enter the text for your ticker? My install doesn’t show some of the items you have in your screenshots.

    Reply
  3. Anna Sue says:
    Apr 13, 2018 at 12:10 pm

    I this may be the ticker I want but, as in many online videos about plugins, you talked and moved so fast I could get the instructions.

    Reply
  4. H.M.Mohiuddin says:
    Sep 25, 2015 at 4:10 am

    how can i add a news ticker without using plugin

    Reply
  5. plazma says:
    Jul 29, 2015 at 6:29 pm

    its not dynamic.

    Reply
  6. felix says:
    Apr 27, 2015 at 8:04 am

    How do i add the Latest News: title to the scrolling news, it shows on my site, but i didnt see where to add if its lastest news or latest update etc

    Reply
  7. hosam abdallah says:
    Feb 24, 2014 at 2:44 am

    very good plugin but i have aquestion
    i use artisteer to make my themes can you tell me where can i add php function to widget
    in this or from where can i add to my themes

    Reply
  8. Abdulmumin says:
    Dec 18, 2013 at 11:55 am

    Hello, Please how can I add the direct function, kindly provide the ste by step instruction in adding the direct funtction.

    I added the shortcode in my about page and it worked but i added it on my home page but it didnt work…..kindly advice

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    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Dec 18, 2013 at 1:52 pm

      Simply copy the Direct function as shown in the last screenshot of the article and paste in your theme’s home.php or header.php. Paste it at the location where you would like your news ticker to appear.

      Reply
  9. Sujani says:
    Nov 15, 2013 at 12:20 pm

    hey,
    thanks for giving the instructions clearly.. i had a a question where should we put the shortcode and direct function?
    do we place it in the post/page?

    Thanks,
    Sujani

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Nov 18, 2013 at 9:46 pm

      shortcode for posts/pages/widgets and direct function if you want to hard code it in your theme’s template files.

      Reply
  10. Peter Johnson says:
    Sep 29, 2013 at 5:07 am

    It seems a great theme, as I am not a PHP developer but I want to use this theme and integrate this theme on my wordpress blog. I just want you to describe ho can I use this theme in my Blog so my latest news can be shown on top of my menu or below my main menu like a slide shown on Television. Please I need a procedure.

    Thanks

    Reply
  11. Mackenzie says:
    Jun 14, 2013 at 9:08 am

    Thanks, really nice tut.

    Reply

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