Breaking News Ticker?

  • AZBros

    (@azbros)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    While browsing themes before finding Hueman, I found several that included a ‘breaking news’ ticker that would run across the top of the website or somewhere right below the header image. I really liked this feature and was disappointed it wasn’t an option in Hueman. I’m curious if it would be possible to add something like this to the theme.

    I’ve seen a couple plugins that are ‘breaking news’ tickers, but they must be placed in an area for widgets. On my theme layout, I’d like to place it where the “page title” normally goes (i.e. immediately below the header image/menu). On the home screen, it would be immediately above the Flexslider.

    Is there any easy way to include something like this? I’m not sure if it’s a coding thing or needing to find the proper plugin. I’d like to be able to create a post and designate it as ‘breaking news” and have it included in the ticker. When there is nothing worthy of the ticker, I’d like to have it be invisible.

    I’ll continue looking at plugins and possible solutions and report back if I find a solution. If anyone is aware of a simple fix, let me know. Thanks!

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  • bdbrown

    (@bdbrown)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Hi AZBros. I installed this plugin:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-title-marquee-scroll/
    You can include posts by category.

    Then I copied /parts/page-title.php to a child theme. At the top of the file, I added the code to call the marquee on the home page:

    <?php if ( is_home() && hu_is_checked('blog-heading-enabled') ) : ?>
	<h2><?php echo hu_blog_title(); ?></h2>

<?php elseif ( is_home() ): ?>
	<?php if (function_exists (ptmsshow)) ptmsshow(); ?>

<?php elseif ( is_single() ): ?>
    Thread Starter AZBros

    (@azbros)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Didn’t work for me, but I’ll keep looking at it. I had disabled the page title so it wouldn’t show up over the slider, but I removed that code and this still didn’t work.

    This is more of a minor thing, so it’s not a big deal if I can’t add it. I just thought it might be a nice touch. I’ll post back here if I can get it working.

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