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News Headline Ticker With Typing Style Slider For WordPress

News Headline Ticker is the new typing style text slider for WordPress. It allows you to display your recent news headline as typing style slider on your website. The plugin is designed for online news websites. It adds a new post type you can use for creating news posts and then you can show them in a sliding typing style.

Install and activate the plugin then follow the given steps:

  1. Visit admin area dashboard and you will see a new post type is added.
  2. Click on the new menu item “News Headline” and create your head line news.
  3. Just copy and paste ” if(function_exists('newsHeadLineTkr')){headLinePost();} in the template code or [News-Ticker] in the post/page” where you want to display news head line.

How To Use A Live News Ticker Inside WordPress Post Types ?

You can easily place am ajaxified live ticker inside any of your WordPress Post, Page and other Custom Post Types using a simple shortcode [ticker].

Installation & Usage

First install and activate the new Liveticker WordPress Plugin. Upon activation the plugin adds a new menu ‘Liveticker’ in your admin section Dashboard:

  1. Create an initial Ticker Post and allocate it to the initiated Ticker. Now publish the Ticker Post.
  2. Open a post, page, CPT or whatever where you want to place your Ticker.
  3. Use the shortcode [ticker slug] in the text. Remember to replace the word slug with your actual ticker slug from the initiated Ticker you created in earlier step. Save the post.
  4. Now you can create Ticker Posts just by clicking Add New in the Ticker Post-Section.

Screenshot showing tick edit screen:

Screenshot showing content edit with ticker shortcode inserted:

Screenshot showing frontend look with the standard-settings:

Using this new menu you can easily create and manage tickers, you can set ticker refresh interval time, use custom CSS and use own RSS-Feeds for each ticker you created, you can initiate unlimited tickers on your Posts; not in a single post, but in different posts.

Beautiful jQuery Newsboard & RSS Feed Auto-Scroller For WordPress

NewsBoard is a beautiful jQuery powered News and RSS feed autoscroller plugin that comes in both free and premium versions. Using this WordPress Plugin you can easily autoscroll your latest blog posts, most commented posts, posts from selected categories and there are some more good options. View Live Demo | Watch the YouTube video.

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Beautiful & Customizable Flash Powered RSS Ticker For WordPress

7feeds ticker is a beautiful and highly customizable RSS ticker widget plugin for WordPress site owners. The widget allows you to display vertically scrolling external and internal RSS feeds (via URLs), you can display multiple feeds from different URLs, you an use various color themes, customizeble colors, fonts, titles, dimensions and other advanced scrolling options. It loads immediately and works smoothly.

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FP News Ticker For WordPress Post Categories

FP News Ticker is the new ticker plugin you can use for displaying posts from a specific category of your WordPress site. The plugin also very good for displaying testimonials so you can create a new category, assign all testimonials to it and display it via this ticker plugin.

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Easily Add A Horizontal Bar Ticker Showing Your Recent WordPress Blog Posts

Just Ticker is new WordPress ticker plugin that shows headlines (title) of your recent blog posts. By default it shows five recent posts but the number of posts can be customized from its options page.

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Easily Fetch And Display Current Cryptocurrency Prices Like Bitcoin In WordPress

Cryptocurrency  is a kind of digital currency which is based on cryptography. This tutorial is on a Cryptocurrency Ticker Widget plugin for WordPress site owners, using this new plugin admins can easily display live cryptocurrency prices such bitcoin and litecoin on their WordPress sites.

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Show Your Featured Or Latest Content Using Beautiful Flewing Ticker In WordPress

In last tutorial about newsticker we discussed about a plugin called Ditty News Ticker that allows you to display auto scrolling custom content etc created by you. After that tutorial we got an email from one of our reader asking how he can show his latest blog posts instead of custom created messages in that type of ticker.

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How To Add Facebook Type News Ticker In WordPress Displaying Multi-Functional Data ?

You might have noticed while using Facebook it displays a news ticker showing recent live activities of your friends circle on the top right corner of your Facebook Account’s Home Page. If it is yet not visible in your FB’s homepage then may be you haven’t clicked Show Ticker Button, a tiny button present on the same top right corner.

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Best News Bar Plugins For Displaying Blog Post & Twitter Updates In WordPress BuddyPress Sites

WordPress users can display blog post, custom post type, RSS feed or custom post type news using a highly customizable bar at the top or bottom of their sites. Whereas BuddyPress users can display all BuddyPress network activity using a dynamic bar at the bottom of their site.

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Facebook Has Removed The Home Page Ticker

I just noticed that Facebook removed the home page ticker but some of subscribers of mine are telling that it is still visible on their home page. I just figured out that many others are also experiencing the same as many stories are appearing on Twitter (check latest ones here and here) about the vanished Facebook Ticker. Some are telling it would be back soon like Randy Hamilton. Some are telling that Ticker is back again etc. etc. But it is still not visible on my Facebook home page.

What is a Facebook Ticker?

Facebook Ticker shows you the things  in real time.

Features of Facebook Ticker:

  • It keeps up with the latest news as it happens
  • You can listen to music with your friends
  • You can hover (or click) over a story to join the conversation

Ticker shows live happening stories like status updates, friendships, photos, videos, links, likes and comments. This activity is visible elsewhere on Facebook but Ticker let you see this as soon as it happens.