News Ticker

[rev...@googlemail.com]

Hi again,

I'm trying to use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/news-ticker/ to
put a news ticker on my front page but I can't find the actual [tag]
that you insert for this plugin or the syntax anywhere in the
documentation for it. I feel a right dufus! Does anyone know where
it's mentioned or does anyone know what the tag and syntax are.

Thanks,

Paul

[ProDevStudio]

Hi Paul,

The plugins installation instruction mentions:

1. Upload news-ticker directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Insert <?php if ( function_exists('insert_newsticker') ) {
insert_newsticker(); } ?> into your template file.
3. Activate the plugin via the Plugins menu.
4. Configure options via the Settings > News-Ticker menu.

**Please note: if your theme doesn't use wp_head() function the ticker
will display a simple list of items.

Check that your theme uses wp_head() somewhere in your header.php.

Kind Regards,
Azizur Rahman

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[Thomas]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Paul Stevens <rev...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

thanks, you're a star! So I know longer have to insert the php
into the theme, just this shortcode into the page where I want it to
appear?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas" <t...@thisishope.co.uk>
To: <rev...@googlemail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: News Ticker

Hi Paul,

That's because the plugin doesn't support any shortcodes! You
would
have to edit your theme(s) to insert the plugin in this case.

I have made a modified version of the plugin for you that lets you
user the [news-ticker] shortcode. You can download it here if you
want:

http://cloudsparting.co.uk/media/news-ticker_with-shortcode.zip

As I'm not the plugin author, it will obviously break again if you
upgrade the plugin in the future.

Cheers,

Thomas.

[rev...@googlemail.com]

Thanks for the explaination Azizur (that's why it wasn't working) and
for the modified version Thomas

On Jan 14, 5:28 pm, Thomas <t...@thisishope.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Paul Stevens <revp...@googlemail.com>

> wrote:
>
>     thanks, you're a star! So I know longer have to insert the php
> into the theme, just this shortcode into the page where I want it to
> appear?
>
>     ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas" <t...@thisishope.co.uk>

>     To: <revp...@googlemail.com>