WP-webTicker

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

1. Upload wp-webticker to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Add ticker styling in your CSS
4. Place <?php do_shortcode('[webticker]'); ?> in your templates or [webticker] in your posts/pages

CSS Styling

• you need to style your wp-webticker plugin in your style.css example

.tickeroverlay-left{
background-image:url(‘left.png’);
display:block;
pointer-events:none;
position:absolute;
z-index:30;
height:12px;
width:150px;
top:0;
left:-2px;
}

.tickeroverlay-right{
background-image:url(‘right.png’);
display:block;
pointer-events:none;
position:absolute;
z-index:30;
height:12px;
width:150px;
top:0;
right:-2px;
}

.tickercontainer { // the outer div
background: #7a7a7a;
width: 738px;
height: 27px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}

.tickercontainer .mask { // that serves as a mask. so you get a sort of padding both left and right
position: relative;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
top: 8px;
height: 18px;
overflow: hidden;
}

ul.newsticker {
position: relative;
margin-left: 20px;
font: bold 10px Verdana;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

ul.newsticker li {
float: left; // important so they rotate properly
margin: 0;
padding-right: 15px;
}

ul.newsticker a {
white-space: nowrap;
padding: 0;
color: #ff0000;
font: bold 10px Verdana;
margin: 0 50px 0 0;
}

ul.newsticker span {
margin: 0 10px 0 0;
}

How to use

Add the following shortcode in your post/page)

[webticker num=”3″ category=”1,3″ id=”webticker”, direction=”1″, speed=”0.05″ ]

If used in a template please include the shortcode function

do_shortcode(‘[webticker num=”3″ category=”1,3″ id=”webticker”, direction=”1″, speed=”0.05″, link=”yes” ]’);

• num – your total number of post to display. default is 10
• category – category id. use comma , for multiple id
• orderby – your post will order by . default post_date . check https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts for detail
• id – the id that you would like to give to the webticker list (has to be used when running multiple tickers on same page)
• speed – the speed should be in the domain of 0 – 1
• direction – 1 = left to right; and -1 = right to left.

• link – yes = link back to author site; hide = hide link; no = remove link completely.

  If you remove the link it would be appriciated if you write something about this plugin.