Extra space is automatically added between Ticker Items

Can you provide a link to your ticker so I can see what is happening? The ticker does not duplicate ticks automatically, so if your current ticks do not fill the screen, the first tick won’t start again until it has completely left the screen which can cause a larger gap between the last tick and the first tick.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by metaphorcreations.

Thanks for your feedback. Without seeing your ticker I can’t think of any other reason why the gaps are happening (besides the instance I mentioned above). But, it sounds like it may not be happening anymore to you? There could be theme styling being applied to something that is causing an issue, or floated parent elements of the ticker can sometimes cause issues.

In regards to your other comments/issues:

1. I’m assuming this is happening when you are using the Visual Editor option for your ticks? I will take a look into this issue.

2. Yes, due to the size of each tick I can understand this issue. I am currently in the middle of doing a complete rebuild and setup of Ditty News Ticker which will resolve this issue. Each tick will be a much smaller row, with the options for each being set with a lightbox that opens. So, re-ordering will be greatly condensed. This is an issue I’m going to leave until the major update is released (no date set for this yet… but, my goal is sometime within the next 6 months).

3. I have a paid extension that will add this functionality, as well as other timing capabilities: https://www.metaphorcreations.com/downloads/ditty-timed-ticker/

4. The custom css in the settings is just a general custom css field and is not limited to only affecting the tickers. But, there are css selectors for your tickers/ticks that you can use to affect only your tickers. For example, use:

.mtphr-dnt-tick {
  font-size: 12px;
  color: #FF0000;
}
.mtphr-dnt-tick a {
  font-weight: bold;
  text-decoration: underline;
}

Hopefully this helps you out. Again, I am working on a complete rebuild, taking a lot of user feedback over the years to make this an even better and useful plugin. I still make minor updates to the current version when necessary, but am trying to spend most of my time working on the re-build (when I have time to work on any of this).

You’re very welcome!

I was thinking a bit more about #2, and to help resolve this issue with the current setup I think I will add a quick toggle to “condense/expand” all ticks. This would hide all the tick content for each tick and just leave the draggable part. It’s not the best solution (that will come with the major update) as once they are condensed you can’t see what the ticks are…, but it should help out with re-arranging ticks in the current system.

Thanks again for your feedback and your very nice review!

I have released an updated that resolves the disappearing text when using the wp_editor. I played around with toggling the content, but didn’t like the results I was having so I’m going to push that task out further. It’s possible I may end up not tackling it at all depending on the progress of the major update I’m working on (which will not have this issue).