The Dynamic Ticker widget displays a horizontally scrolling or sliding text area, typically used for showing trending topics, news updates, announcements, or featured content.
General#
- Source: Choose the data source for your ticker:
- Posts – Automatically pull content from WordPress posts or custom post type.
- ACF Repeater – Fetches items from a repeater field created in ACF.
- ACF Relationship – Displays related posts/items from an ACF relationship field.
Query#
The advanced query logic in the Dynamic Ticker enables you to filter posts by category, tags, author, or other criteria, providing granular control. You can find more details here.
Items#
Source: Posts or ACF Relationship#
- Content Fields: When you select Posts or ACF Relationship as source, you can choose from the given options to display as ticker content:
- Post Title – Displays the post's title.
- Post Author – Shows the name of the post author.
- Post Date – Displays the post's published date.
- Post Excerpt – Shows a trimmed version of the post content.
- Post Content – Displays the full content of the post.
- Post Comments Count – Shows how many comments the post has.
- Post Terms – Displays terms (e.g., categories, tags) related to the post.
- Post Featured Image – Renders the post's featured image.
- Post Custom Field – Displays the value of a custom meta field.
- ACF Field – Pulls in data from an ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) field.
- Pods Field – Displays data from a Pods framework field.
- Button – Adds a custom button element (e.g., Read More, View Project).
Source: ACF Repeater#
- ACF Repeater Sub Field: Select which subfield from the chosen ACF Repeater will populate this content element.
- Field Type: Determines how the subfield's value is interpreted.
- Link Field: Select which subfield from the ACF Repeater will populate the link.
Heading#
- Show Heading: Toggle to show ticker heading.
- Heading Text: Provide heading text to show in the ticker.
- Icon: Allows you to select an icon that will display with the heading.
- Icon Position: Allows you to set the icon position, left or right, to the heading.
- Arrows: Toggle to show navigation arrows to navigate through ticker items.
Settings#
- Effect: Control the transition style between slides.
- Slide – Smooth sliding transition for a continuous flow between slides.
- Fade – Crossfade effect for a softer, more elegant transition.
- Transition Duration (ms): Speed of the slide/fade animation, in milliseconds. Example: 500 = half a second.
- Autoplay: Toggle automatic slide progression on or off.
- Autoplay Speed: Time (in milliseconds) between automatic slide changes. Example: 3000 = 3 seconds per slide.
- Pause on Hover: If enabled, pauses autoplay when the user hovers over the slider.
- Pause on Interaction: If enabled, disables autoplay permanently after any user interaction (like clicking arrows or swiping).
- Infinite Loop: Enables looping: after the last slide, it seamlessly goes back to the first.
- Direction: Sets the slide direction (left or right).
- Navigation:
- Arrows – Toggles next/previous arrow buttons on/off.