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?
