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.
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.
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.
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.
How do i add the Latest News: title to the scrolling news, after header in main page it shows on my site.
Where do you enter the text for your ticker? My install doesn’t show some of the items you have in your screenshots.
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.
how can i add a news ticker without using plugin
its not dynamic.
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
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
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
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.
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
shortcode for posts/pages/widgets and direct function if you want to hard code it in your theme’s template files.
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
Thanks, really nice tut.