So ...
Once you have published your newly created ticker(s), go to News Tickers => News tickers.
Simply copy the given shortcode ...
... and paste it into your post or page content wherever you want:
And here's the live result with my super-simple plain text scrolling ticker:
Needless to say, with a simple HTML & CSS combo used as tick content is extremely easy to create really beautiful and truly outstanding results ...
And there is more! As I mentioned earlier, you can add a custom Ditty News Ticker widget to any widget-ready area of your website. Simply drag the Ditty News Ticker widget into the given widget area and select the targeted ticker from the drop-down list:
Cool, isn't it?
And that's it my friends!
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Regarding the number of plugins see this How to avoid using plugins that could affect your site? And how many is too many?
'm, currently using it as a widet at the top of my sidebar but it's narrow and I'd like to have it running along the entire width of the page, ideally at the very bottom of the header.
I think the only way to do that is to insert the code directly into the header .php. Have you got any suggestions about how best to do that?
Ian
You need/want to use the plugin to display the ticker on given pages/posts and all you have to do is to insert the shortcode in that pages/posts. And there is an option that allows you to set the width.
I've experimented a bit but it seems a chunky way of doing it.
I'll experiment some more :-)
Ian
Ian
More than that, those changes added to the theme php template files will be overwritten every time when you update your theme.
Good training, good plugin.
Ian
In order to put it in a given specific place, you'll have to read and understand the whole PHP source code to find the right spot where you want/can insert the new PHP function without breaking the code. But each template file and each theme is different and this is why you need to understand every single line of that specific source code ...
Necessity is the mother of invention :-)
Ian
