A versatile horizontal news ticker using liScroll.js

Alec

<p>The plugin creates a shortcode to be used in a widget to display a nice horizontal newsticker which can be placed in a sidebar.<br />
Since 0.7: one can use a php tag or shortcode to insert it in the theme template, widgets or posts, all tuning moved to Settings<br />
Based upon liScroll.js by Gian Carlo Mingati.<br />
Tested in WordPress 3.0+ only, expected to be compatible from 2.6+.<br />
Demo: http://chernivtsi.ws (in Ukrainian).</p>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<h4>Show latest posts titles in a scrolling newsticker</h4>
<pre><code>1. A number of latest post can be tuned in settings
2. Categories can be defined with a standard syntax, see Installation for details
3. Choose date format for category posts
4. Tune css from settings
5. Insert php tag into theme template files
6. Ukrainian and Russian localization
</code></pre>
<h4>Alternatively show show your own content in a scrolling newsticker</h4>
<pre><code>1. Unlimited number of explicitly given elements to scroll
2. Mix your explicitly given content with posts
3. Choose what to show: posts, explicit content, both in order or randomized
</code></pre>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>liScroll, Copyright 2007-2010 Gian Carlo Mingati,<br />
http://www.gcmingati.net/wordpress/wp-content/lab/jquery/newsticker/jq-liscroll/scrollanimate.html<br />
Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.</p>
<p>RP News Ticker, Copyright 2007-2010 Alexander Missa,<br />
http://www.rationalplanet.com<br />
Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify<br />
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by<br />
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or<br />
(at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,<br />
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of<br />
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the<br />
GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License<br />
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software<br />
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA</p>
<h3>Upcoming Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>allow to set scroller speed</li>
<li>choose appear effect on page load</li>
<li>allow multiple instances of the widget</li>
<li>allow periodical refresh with ajax</li>
</ul>


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