{"id":67847,"date":"2011-12-28T09:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T14:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=67847"},"modified":"2022-03-15T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T22:46:20","slug":"wordpress-scrolling-ticker-plugins-to-liven-up-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-scrolling-ticker-plugins-to-liven-up-your-site\/","title":{"rendered":"5 WordPress Scrolling Ticker Plugins to Liven Up Your Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a fast-paced media world. Turn on any 24-hour TV news station and you will be bombarded with all sorts of information flying at you from every corner of the screen \u2013 newscasters talking to you, infographics appearing, photos popping up, and the ubiquitous \u201cnews crawl\u201d of stories, scores, stock prices, and more swimming along the bottom of it all.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing \u2013 we\u2019re used to it. And because we\u2019re used to it, anything less can sometimes look stale or boring.<\/p>\n<p>And so if you\u2019d like to give the sense that your website is as current and information-rich as a 24-hour news station, it might help if you borrow some of their tactics.<\/p>\n<p>One such tactic that is easily achieved is the \u201cnews ticker\u201d or the scrolling crawl of stories that you see running along the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>The following plugins can give you a personalized news crawl for your site based on your own content (and in some cases others\u2019 content if you like).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#vertical-scroll\">Vertical Scroll Recent Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#scroll-post-excerpt\">Scroll Post Excerpt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#marquee-scroll\">Post Title Marquee Scroll<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#wp-news-scrolling\">WP News and Scrolling Widget<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#ditty\">Ditty<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 id=\"vertical-scroll\">1. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/vertical-scroll-recent-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vertical Scroll Recent Post<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This plugin is made by <em>gopiplus<\/em>, as are the next two. The three of these work very similarly, with some small differences that will be mentioned in each section.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Main Features<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Widget-ready or add directly to theme<\/li>\n<li>Control number of posts to display in the scroll at the same time<\/li>\n<li>Control max number of posts to display<\/li>\n<li>Control which categories posts come from<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potential Drawback<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One issue is that long titles tend to overlap onto the next title down the list. This can be fixed by controlling the height of the titles on the settings page; however, you may end up with more space between your titles than you wish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" data-caption=\"true\"><a rel=\"lightbox[67847]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/5-wordpress-scrolling-ticker-plugins-to-liven-up-your-site\/vertical-scroll-front\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67853\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-67853 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vertical-scroll-front.jpg\" alt=\"Vertical Scroll Recent Post plugin view\" width=\"638\" height=\"527\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vertical Scroll Recent Post plugin view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" data-caption=\"true\"><a rel=\"lightbox[67847]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/5-wordpress-scrolling-ticker-plugins-to-liven-up-your-site\/vertical-scroll-settings\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67854\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-67854 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vertical-scroll-settings.jpg\" alt=\"Vertical Scroll Recent Post plugin settings\" width=\"638\" height=\"609\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vertical Scroll Recent Post plugin settings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"scroll-post-excerpt\"><strong>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/scroll-post-excerpt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scroll Post Excerpt<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>From the same plugin author as Vertical Scroll Recent Post plugin above, this plugin works the same way except it includes excerpts along with the titles of the posts.<\/p>\n<p>The overlapping issues in this plugin are more easily controlled than in the Vertical Scroll Recent Post plugin because the increased amount of space needed for the excerpts makes each title and snippet appear in a more evenly spaced manner.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Main Features<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Widget-ready<\/li>\n<li>Control number of posts to display in the scroll at the same time<\/li>\n<li>Control max number of posts to display<\/li>\n<li>Control which categories posts come from<\/li>\n<li>Control excerpt length<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" data-caption=\"true\"><a rel=\"lightbox[67847]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/5-wordpress-scrolling-ticker-plugins-to-liven-up-your-site\/post-scroll-excerpt-front\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67855\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-67855 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/post-scroll-excerpt-front.jpg\" alt=\"Scroll Post Excerpt plugin\" width=\"637\" height=\"603\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scroll Post Excerpt plugin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"marquee-scroll\"><strong>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/post-title-marquee-scroll\/\" target=\"_blank\">Post Title Marquee Scroll<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>From the same author as the first two plugins, this widget-ready plugin scrolls recent posts titles horizontally.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Main Features<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Control the direction of the scroll<\/li>\n<li>Control style \u2013 color and font<\/li>\n<li>Control style of \u201csplitter\u201d \u2013 the dividing symbol between titles<\/li>\n<li>Control number of posts<\/li>\n<li>Control post categories<\/li>\n<li>Short codes for posts and pages<\/li>\n<li>Add directly to theme (or use widget)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" data-caption=\"true\"><a rel=\"lightbox[67847]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/5-wordpress-scrolling-ticker-plugins-to-liven-up-your-site\/post-title-marquee-scroll-front\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67856\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-67856 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/post-title-marquee-scroll-front.jpg\" alt=\"Post Title Marquee Scroll plugin\" width=\"636\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Post Title Marquee Scroll plugin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"wp-news-scrolling\">\u00a0<strong>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/sp-news-and-widget\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP News and Scrolling Widget<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Main Features<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dynamic &amp; easy-to-use<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adds a News tab to your admin menu, which allows you to enter news items just as you would regular posts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offers List &amp; Grid views<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Translations in German, French, &amp; Polish languages (beta)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Works with Gutenberg shortcode block<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Widget Options like Show News date, Show News Categories, Select News Categories<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pagination &amp; shortcode parameters<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is also a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentialplugin.com\/wordpress-plugin\/sp-news-and-scrolling-widgets\/?utm_source=WP&amp;utm_medium=News&amp;utm_campaign=Read-Me\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pro version<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which offers additional features.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potential Drawback<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Must make sure permalinks are set to custom structure (not \u201c\/news\u201d), or all of your news will go to the Archive page.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206978\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" data-caption=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-206978 size-ratio-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/WP-News-and-Scrolling-Widgets-plugin-1050x764.png\" alt=\"WP News and Scrolling Widget plugin\" width=\"1050\" height=\"764\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">WP News and Scrolling Widget plugin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"ditty\"><strong>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/ditty-news-ticker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ditty<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ditty, (formerly Ditty News Ticker), is a multi-functional data display plugin. Easily render custom data feeds to your site through a customizable news ticker, list, or slider.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Main Features<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Options for Item types\n<ul>\n<li>Default \u2013 Add custom text to your Ditty<\/li>\n<li>WP Editor \u2013 Add custom text to your Ditty using the WP Editor<\/li>\n<li>WP Posts Feed \u2013 Add your latest blog posts to your Ditty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Options for Display types\n<ul>\n<li>Ticker \u2013 Create a unique news ticker using the Ticker Display type. Control the direction, spacing, speed, styling and more.<\/li>\n<li>List \u2013 Create paged lists of your combined content. Multiple settings give you full control for the look and feel of your lists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Additional plugins can be purchased to extend Ditty\u2019s functionality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potential Drawback<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The free plugin provides only 1 block.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" data-caption=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-ratio-full wp-image-206980\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ditty-plugin-1050x504.png\" alt=\"Ditty plugin\" width=\"1050\" height=\"504\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ditty plugin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make your site appear as current and information-rich as a 24-hour news station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":206710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-67847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207472,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67847\/revisions\/207472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67847"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=67847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}