Ticker delay

Sorry, all fixed, it was because of the 3G lentitude.

Nice plugin.

Ok, just as a note… the javascript for the tickers is set to only run after page load. So, if you have a slow internet connection or a bunch of heavy files loading on your site it may take awhile as all that stuff will have to load first.

Is there a (simple) way to get the ticker to load before the rest of the page and other plugins finish loading? I would like the ticker to be one of the first plugins to load as it appears near the top of my site’s homepage. At present, it seems to be the last plugin to load leaving an unsightly gap during the loading process.

In the meantime, I thank you for producing such a useful plugin.

There is not at the moment, but I will look into figuring out a way to make this happen.

Hi,

i would also be interested in a solution to this, as for me also the slider is at the top of the webpage and that delay looks weird. I also purchased Ditty Post ticker.

Can you provide a temporary hack / solution?

Thank you!

I’ll be sure to look into this soon, but I can’t say exactly when. For a quick hack you can try modifying the “ditty-news-ticker/includes/scripts.php” file. On line 66 change:

jQuery( window ).load( function() {

to

jQuery( document ).ready( function() {

Keep in mind that you’ll run into issues with this if you have images contained in your ticker and that your ticker may not be sized/spaced out quite right when loading using this method.

Thanks for the quick reply.

With your hack, sometimes the slider does not appear : when this happens, you resize the window a bit it appears…I don’t know if it was the issue you were talking about or if it is related to my theme. My scroller is Ditty Post Ticker, and it scroll post, with featured image.

Thanks!

Yes, that is the issue I was referring to. When I very first created the plugin I had it load on “document ready” but soon realized this issue and switched it to “window load” so that all images where loaded before my scripts decipher appropriate sizing for all the elements.

I will try to spend some time on this issue between this week and next week and hopefully I can come up with a solution that works for everyone.

I posted a private support message on your ticksy support site as I’m having similar issues. When page first loads, the news ticker doesn’t display. I have to refresh the page to get it to load. I just modified the script to use the jQuery document .ready vs. window.load and it’s loading fine now. Thanks.