mimo

<p>This plugin adds a widget to your WordPress site called Simple News Ticker, publish this widget wherever needed and set its options, the plugin uses Flexslider Jquery plugin to create a slider of Posts(only titles), you can navigate throught the posts, the options are:</p>
<p>–<strong>Title</strong>: Title of the widget<br />
–<strong>Categories to show</strong>, use slugs separated by commas: Which categories to include in the loop, they can be custom post types categories<br />
–<strong>Categories to hide</strong>, use ids separated by commas: The categories to hide, here you need to use id’s<br />
–<strong>Offset, number</strong>: Write the number for offset in the loop, this means the number of post you need to jump from beginning.<br />
–<strong>Number of posts to show</strong>: Posts per page<br />
–<strong>Post Type to use</strong>: This field will list all available post types in theme for you to choose one</p>
<h3>Usage instructions</h3>
<p>Go to Appearance/Widgets and find new widget called Simple News Ticker, just publish it and set options.</p>
<p>Find plugin and issues solved at http://mimo.media or fork it on Github at https://github.com/mimomedia/simple-news-ticker</p>


Simple News Ticker

Creates a Widget to display a News Ticker of posts or whatever custom post type you have. Includes 'Next', 'Prev' buttons.

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>


RP News Ticker

A versatile horizontal news ticker using liScroll.js

Simple News Ticker vs RP News Ticker