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Hello, would you be so kind as to let me know what CSS tag needs to be edited to change the color behind the Label text, which by default is “News” I can change the color of that text and other aspects with CSS, but for some reason I cant change the label background color. thanks for a great plugin.
Using theme 1 as an example, go to the theme CSS file (“modern-ticker/themes/theme1.css”) and on line 10 you can find the style to change the background of the label:
.modern-ticker .mt-label {
background-color: #0099ff;
}
Thank you very much – that is exactly what I needed to know and it worked beautifully! Have a great day!
Hello! I’ve purcased plugin for this reason. I have in my site root a lot of dynamic xml files from an external source and I want load the news in my ticker. How I can? Thank You very much
You can use the “rss” feed type with the “direct” load type.
The XML files will need to be structured like an RSS file. There is an example included with the downloaded files in the “Main/load-files/feed.rss”.
I don’t find the folder “main” in downloaded files. Anyway is it possible read many dynamic files xml located in a specific folder? Thank You
You do not have the “Purchased” label next to your name. Once you purchase and download the marketplace files, you can find the “Main” folder in the downloaded archive.
I have just purchased your item. you can see the screen here with the content of folder downloaded http://www.screencast.com/t/AWFWSUCz I don’t know why I don’t have the “Purchased” label. Can you help me now? Thank you
You purchased the WP version. This is the comments board of the standalone, jQuery version.
The ticker can use the RSS feed type to load one XML/RSS feed file. It needs to have a structure like this: http://creativetier.com/examples/feed.rss
Or it can use the JSON feed type to load one JSON file. This needs to have the following structure: http://creativetier.com/examples/feed.json
It cannot load multiple files at the same time though.
Hi can you help
There’s a big gap in my feed for some reason
https://i.imgur.com/34Xz44B.gifCould you help me remove the gap?
Seems to be a resolution issue Tried looking through the source and couldn’t find a solution Tried viewing my site with 2 different sized monitors/browsers and still see the issue
2560×1440p and 1920×1080
Hi. Is is possible to send me a link to a page where I can preview the ticker so that I can look over the source code?
It is displaying well for me in Chrome, Firefox and IE. What browser are you using?
Can you try to Ctrl+F5 to clear the cache and refresh the page, in case it is a caching issue?
Using google chrome, checked in my virtual machine , same display size and it appears fine so I’m unsure what’s causing it
I can view the site in internet explorer on my site and it looks fine though so definitely seems related to chrome
If you don’t see it on other machines and browsers and if it displays well on my end too, then it may just be something that only happens on your current setup.
1. If you have been customizing the site CSS recently, maybe it is some leftover cache CSS. Have you tried Ctrl+F5 to clear cache and refresh the page?
2. Do you see this space on the link that you have sent me as well (https://phishing.rs/) or only in your development environment (the screenshot that you posted).
3. I cannot see the issue on my end in the link that you have posted so I cannot inspect the source code. But you can use the Chrome Developer tools to look over the ticker code directly.
Move the mouse over the news text, right click and select “Inspect”. The Developer tools will open and in the Elements panel you can see ticker HTML elements. When you hover over them with the mouse, they will be highlighted on the page. Their dimensions, including padding and margins will be shown. Thy to hover over various elements (ul, div.mt-news, div.mt-label) and find where the space originates from.
If it is simply a padding or margin of the ul, you can go in the ticker CSS file (modern-ticker/css/modern-ticker.css) and increase the specificity of the ul resets (line 20):
body div.modern-ticker ul,
body div.modern-ticker li {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
}
I simply added a couple of elements to the selectors so that the styles have higher specificity and override any page styles that might be adding padding or margin to the ticker ul element.
Hi, i tried to include this news ticker in my homepage but it is too big to fit in. can you help me on how to get the news font smaller so i can reduce the news ticker size. Thanks.
It is ok.. I found it. Thanks.
Hello, Just bought this yesterday. Nice plugin.
Having problems styling this…how can I remove the bullet point?
Tried .mt-news ul li {list-style-type: none !important;} and can’t remove it.
Also, a couple suggestions: 1. Adding the post category feature is great, but would be nice if you could add by tag as well.
2. Is it possible to add a section to add custom CSS to override styling?
Thanks!
Hi. I have responded to your message posted on comments page of the WP version of the ticker. Please see the response there relating to the WP files. As for the suggestions that you mentioned, you can see the responses to them at the end of this message.
I will post a similar response here relating to the jQuery files, which are slightly different (contain the CSS theme code separated in files), in case someone here is interested in the answer to this question as well:
To have more control over the appearance of the bullets, I have created them as custom ”.png” images. They can be removed by simply editing the ticker CSS files.
First, the modifications for the ticker theme CSS file. For example, theme 1, which can be found in “modern-ticker/themes/theme1.css”.
Go to the following styles and either remove or comment out the bullet images for default and for mouseover (line 25):
.modern-ticker .mt-news a {
...
/*background-image: url("images/bullet-505050.png");*/
}
.modern-ticker .mt-news a:hover {
...
/*background-image: url("images/bullet-over-fafafa.png");*/
}
The last thing that is needed is to remove the empty space where the bullet was, which is a left padding.
This change is in the main CSS file, which can be found in “modern-ticker/css/modern-ticker.css”.
Simply change the left padding from 20px to 10px (line 74):
.modern-ticker .mt-news a {
...
padding: 0 10px 0 10px;
...
}
The bullets should now be gone. If you don’t see any difference, make sure to press Ctrl+F5 to clear the cache and refresh the page.
The suggestions that you mentioned refer to the WP version only:
1. I have made a note of the tags suggestion and I will look into it for the next update that I make to the WP ticker.
2. This is a viable option but as far as I know it is recommended that any overriding CSS by added to the theme CSS file. I will research more about it and if it is considered a good practice, I might add it in the next update as well.
Hi,
I accidentally bought the news ticker plugin because I thought it was a WordPress plugin 
You can make a refund request if you mistakenly purchased the project. There is a WP version of the ticker at Modern News Ticker for WordPress but it does not support RTL alignment.
Hi, Does the plugin supports RTL alignment?
Unfortunately, the ticker does not support RTL at the moment.
hi i purchase news-tiker , but my website is rtl, this cause news-ticker not working
In what sense is it not working? Does it have any kind of error? Or are you just saying that you cannot use it since your site is RTL?
The ticker does not have RTL support. RTL is not mentioned in the preview page or in the description.
aha thanks, i hope if you can add RTL support
Hi, It’s possible to view a post category instead of single posts?
This is the jQuery version. Are you asking about the WP version? I responded to your comment in the WP version message board. Let me know there if you are referring to the “Posts” feed or to the “Add post(s)” modal.
A new update was implemented, version 2.1 is live:
- Fixed an issue that was causing the preloader not to show properly in some browsers when set to load a feed.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the news items not to display properly when loading feeds and “linksEnabled” set to false.
- Modified the theme CSS files so that the styles have higher specificity to make it less likely to be overwritten by other page styles.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the RSS feed not to load properly when using the “rss2json” service from a page on HTTPS.
- Other small modifications and improvements.
Just a quick question, can this be configured to where you can make the label (where it says ‘news’ in the demo) clickable (to where it takes you to another page)? Thanks.
Yes, you just add an anchor tag (<a>) to the label text and you can link it to another page.
Hi i paid for this news ticker but I need to know how to make it run on all width of my web?
Hi. I see that your account was created this month but the “purchased” tag is not displaying next to your name. Can you please send me the purchase code?
The ticker is, by default, extending to all of the available width. It has max-width set to 1000px, which can be changed or removed.
Also, please send me a link to where I can look over your implementation so that I can give you specific instructions.
Hello,
Thanks for the great work please, I need the RTL version
Hi. There is no other version of the project. All files are included in the downloadable archive. And all available features are either shown in the preview or mentioned in the description.
Hey dear, Can You please tell me if there is any way to change the icon hover and the feed hover colors? That would be very helpful…
Hi. The colors for the news background, news text and buttons background can be changed from the CSS file. The buttons icons (such as the arrows) are images and their color can be changed by editing the image source files from the “Sources/themes” folder of the project files.
If you need help finding a specific color, please let me know and I will point you in the right direction.
Thank You, and how do I remove the ul with “list-style-type: none” seems like its not listening to the command! And many thanks to You Sir!
The news items actually use small images for the discs that simulate the “list-style-type” bullet points. I didn’t like the default look and this allowed me higher customization.
To remove them, you can simply change the following in the CSS code:
.modern-ticker .mt-news a {
...
background-image: none !important;
padding: 0 10px;
}
Mate, I thank You a lot!!!! Cheers and keep up the awesome work!
Another thing is the hover on the “a” anchors, I have customized the whole thing but cant cusomize the on hover thing, the colors are blue with a black underline, I would like to remove it and change the default blue color to something else if possible!
Thank again!!!
Have you checked the theme CSS file? Depending on which theme you use, you can find them in the “modern-ticker/themes” folder. Here, you can find the following styles to control the background and text color of the “a” tag by default and on hover:
.modern-ticker .mt-news a {
color: #505050;
background-color: #dedede;
...
}
.modern-ticker .mt-news a:hover {
color: #fafafa;
background-color: #0099ff;
...
}
I am not sure what you mean by black underline. The ticker does not have underlined text by default. If it shows underlined for you, it might be a style from your page that affects it and you can simply force it not to show:
.modern-ticker .mt-news a {
text-decoration: none;
}
Tnaks again, Your awesome, now I have 1 last question regarding the ticker, I would like to make it more responsive, I cant make it 3 culmns if I want it to change the view to be 2-3 columns when I change the media query to phone, is there any way You can think of how I could do this?
The ticker is responsive, in the sense that it adjusts the width based on the available space. The height is constant.
I am not sure what you mean by making 3 columns. Can you please give me more details about that? Do you mean 3 lines of news? (Columns are vertical, lines are horizontal.) If you mean having 3 lines of news items at the same time, then this is not possible, the ticker was not designed that way.
I meen making 1 line\row with News tag, 2nd row is the news (anchor with ticking news) 3rd row is with the buttons, I ment separating the 3 divs that hold the tag\buttons\ticker to 3 columns when I switch the width to phone width 320-610px… Is it possible?
That is not possible, unfortunately. The ticker was made to work in a single line. However, I don’t think that there are many phones nowadays at resolutions of 320px. And even at small dimensions such as 610px, the news are visible well with both label and controls on the sides.
I hope they will be visible, cant find a normal way to display the website on a virtual device. Thank You for all the help! You are awesome!
Please contact me and give a refund. Accidentally purchased the wrong version of this plugin. I will proceed to purchase the WordPress version but I need to be refunded for the accidental purchase of the JQuery version.
If you accidentally purchased the wrong version, you have to make a refund request. You have more information about that here: https://help.market.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/209980383-How-do-refunds-work-
Hi, after the ticker working fine for months, i’ve suddenly started getting this error:
newsticker.jquery.js:237 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token : jquery.modern-ticker.min.js:2 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘item’ of null at Object.success (jquery.modern-ticker.min.js:2) at i (jquery-3.2.1.min.js:2) at Object.fireWith [as resolveWith] (jquery-3.2.1.min.js:2) at A (jquery-3.2.1.min.js:4) at XMLHttpRequest.<anonymous> (jquery-3.2.1.min.js:4)
Any ideas?
Hi. Can you give me a link to where I can look over the page?
Tricky too as its on an intranet – I’ve mainly got it working now with updating to the newer release – however i’m intermittently getting “YQL: Bad Request” on refreshes. It works a few mins alter.
This is what the query outputs from Yahoo’s api:
{"query":{"count":0,"created":"2017-08-31T11:52:38Z","lang":"en-GB","diagnostics":{"publiclyCallable":"true","url":{"execution-start-time":"1","execution-stop-time":"2","execution-time":"1","http-status-code":"400","http-status-message":"Bad Request","content":"http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml"},"user-time":"2","service-time":"1","build-version":"2.0.164"},"results":null}}
Ok, I understand. Can you please give me the url of the RSS file that you are trying to load as well as the settings that you are using, so that I can test on my end?
If you don’t want to post any data in a public place here, you can simply use the contact email from the guide and send me a private message.
Settings (and feed URL) are:
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(".modern-ticker").modernTicker({
feedType: "rss",
feedUrl: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
loadType: "process",
effect: "scroll",
scrollType: "continuous",
scrollStart: "inside",
scrollInterval: 20,
transitionTime: 500,
linksEnabled: false,
pauseOnHover: false,
autoplay: true,
feedCount: 20
});
It seems that the YQL service is not processing well this link. However, that is why I added a second processing service as a backup. If you switch to the “rss2json” service, it seems to work well.
Add the following setting:
jQuery(".modern-ticker").modernTicker({
...
loadProcess: "rss2json",
...
}
It works well on my end, let me know if it works for you too.
I get Failed to load http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. when i try that.
That error should appear only for the “direct” load type, not for the “process” one. If you use rss2json, if there is an error, it should be an error from the rss2json service. The error you mentioned seems to be displayed in the browser console, right? Is any error displayed in the ticker itself?
If is set to the following, i get nothing back – no errors ont he page on in the console, just blank:
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(".modern-ticker").modernTicker({
feedType: "rss2json",
feedUrl: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
loadType: "process",
effect: "scroll",
scrollType: "continuous",
scrollStart: "inside",
scrollInterval: 20,
transitionTime: 500,
linksEnabled: false,
pauseOnHover: false,
autoplay: true,
feedCount: 20
});
</script>
The “rss2json” property should be specified in the “loadProcess” setting:
feedType: "rss", feedUrl: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml", loadType: "process", loadProcess: "rss2json"
Ok – ive changed that and now get “YQL: Bad Request” on the page – nothing shows on the console.
I have: jQuery(".modern-ticker").modernTicker({
feedType: "rss",
feedUrl: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
loadType: "process",
loadprocess: "rss2json",
effect: "scroll",
scrollType: "continuous",
scrollStart: "inside",
scrollInterval: 20,
transitionTime: 500,
linksEnabled: false,
pauseOnHover: false,
autoplay: true,
feedCount: 20
});
Ignore me – typo on LoadProcess (lower “p”) – fixed and all working – thank you very much for your assistance 
No problem, if you have any other issues, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Thanks – just one other tweak i had to make was to jquery.modern-ticker.min.js was to change http://api.rss2json.com/v1/api.json to https://api.rss2json.com/v1/api.json (the page with the ticker on is loaded via SSL and the http method broke it because of mixed content).
That’s true, another client reported a similar thing and I have looked into it as well and already updated the link in my files. This will be included in the marketplace files in the next update that I make.
Is this styling fully customizable with CSS? If so, I’m surprised you don’t mention that.
Yes, the styling is all customizable with CSS. I think that is something standard and also noticeable from the different themes and I didn’t mention it specifically in the description.
Hi there, thanks for the plug-in. Wondering if there’s a way of showing the description of the rss feeds?
Hi. That is not possible right now but it is something that I want to add in a future update, a setting to control what fields to display from the feed.
But you can send me a quick email, using either the contact email from the guide or the contact form on my profile page, and I can make some modifications for you and reply with the new JS file that will display the description as well.
Just tell me how you want it to display, if use a separator character, what loadType are you using and, if possible, the link to the RSS feed would be helpful for testing.
Great script, thanks for all your hard work. Had initial issues as I have ‘jquery-1.11.3.min.js’ also running on my page.
Just to help is others who might be experiencing issues, the conflict is easliy resolved using the ‘noConflict’ command.
Simply change …..
<script type=”text/javascript”> jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery(".modern-ticker").modernTicker({
effect: "scroll",
scrollType: "continuous",
scrollStart: "inside",
scrollInterval: 20,
transitionTime: 500,
linksEnabled: true,
pauseOnHover: true,
autoplay: true
});
</script>
});
TO …....
<script type=”text/javascript”> var $j = jQuery.noConflict(); jQuery(document).ready(function() {
$j(".modern-ticker").modernTicker({
effect: "type",
typeInterval: 10,
displayTime: 4000,
transitionTime: 300,
linksEnabled: true,
pauseOnHover: true,
autoplay: true
});
});
</script>
Sorry id people already knew this, however took me about 2 hours to figure out !!
If you already have jQuery on the page, it is best to simply not add it again in the ticker head code. Simply remove this line:
<script src="modern-ticker/js/jquery-3.2.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
(But make sure that your jQuery is added before the ticker head code.)
This is mentioned in the top instructions in each template file as well as in the guide. Sorry if it was not obvious enough.
This is one of the more common problems that people encounter but I am not sure how to make it easier to see the instructions.
I did actually see that however the ticker would not load correctly with the “https://ajax.googleapis.com/.....js” version for some reason. Thanks for the feedback though.
Hello,
I hope this email finds you well.
Unfortunately, the ticker stopped working again today, any suggestions?
Regards,
Almatareed https://www.almatareed.org/vb/Hi,
The ticker on your page loads and displays well on my end.
When exactly is happening for you? Is the feed not loading? Try to open the browser tools (F12) and see if any error is showing in the browser console from the ticker.