[Plugin: News-Ticker] Yeah but…can it loop?

  • I’m loving this news ticker plugin, it does exactly what I want it to do; but is there a way that once it reaches the end of the amount of posts specified, can it loop back to the beginning?

    For example, if I specify to display the 10 most recent posts; once the ticker reaches post #10 it would loop back to #1, proceeding from there through the posts again.

    This isn’t a bug, only a feature request.

    Thanks for the great plugin!
    -ben

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/news-ticker/

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  • Actually it is a bug. There seems to be some kind of conflict on your site. The default New Ticker behavior is to loop back to the first post. Just like you’d expect.

    Regards, Daniel Sachs,
    18elements

    We are having the same problem at this site; https://www.efitdance.com
    In addition it is missing a third post to the same catagory and in addition it is set to show images and one post has a test image in it. Any ideas? ta ~ Steve

    Hi there, same problem for me it doesn’t loop. I think it was working until I changed the plugin settings. Can set them to default? Deleting the plugin didn’t work.

    Thanks Turner

    I had an issue with News-Ticker displaying an external RSS feed on a fresh installation of WordPress. The first two items would display as expected but the ticker would then freeze.

    I updated jQuery cycle to the latest version, this didn’t seem to help, I then found that turning on the ‘continuous’ option for the news-ticker cycle made all of the items display, however this wasn’t really a fix as I didn’t really want the ticker to be continuous.

    I decided to try and narrow down which of the cycle options was causing the problem (lines 55 – 63 in ticker.php), I removed them all and added them back in one by one, oddly the ticker carried on working, even once all of the options were back in situ. Maybe some sort of character encoding issue?

    It was line 58 in “ticker.php”.
    The content of the line is “sync: 0,”.
    If you comment this line out, the plugin works!!

    Thank you @breitel! I was having exactly the same issue (ticker freezing) and that fixed it ??

    I have a separate prob with this plugin as well: the auto-excerpt-length does not seem to have any effect. The script chops the post text at an unpredictable point and says “… More -> ” despite me specifying 999 characters in the Ticker Length section of the News Ticker Settings page. Has anyone else encountered this?

    Yeah I noticed it’s chopping off the last word. Actually what it’s doing is putting the last word on a new line but there is a property called overflow: hidden which hides it. Anyone else have this issue and know how to fix it?

    @breitei Thanks so much!!! I was about to dive in myself and have a go at it after the author said he did not support this plugin. That one line did the trick! Thanks a million!

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