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Horizontal scrolling announcements

Description

This horizontal scrolling announcement wordpress plugin lets scroll the content from one end to another end like reel. This plugin is using JQuery Marquee script for scrolling. This is the simple way to create scrolling text in your website. Check official website for live demo http://www.gopiplus.com/work/2010/07/18/horizontal-scrolling-announcement/

Live demo

Live Demo
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Frequently Asked Questions

Feature

  1. Free plugin.
  2. Easy to customize.
  3. It supports all major browsers.
  4. Configurable scroll speed.
  5. Pause the scroll on mouse over.
  6. Option to set announcement start date.
  7. Option to set expiration date/time for the announcement.

Short code for post

You can add your announcement into your wordpress post with the following shortcode.

[hsas-shortcode group="" speed="10" direction="left" gap="50"]

[hsas-shortcode group="" speed="2" direction="down" gap="50"]

If you want to include this announcement in your custom theme, please look at the do_shortcode option in wordpress.

echo do_shortcode( '[hsas-shortcode group="" speed="10" direction="left" gap="50"]' );

Screenshots

  • Front page

  • Admin option (Announcements View)

  • Admin option (Announcements Add and Edit)

  • Widget setting

Installation

Option 1:

  1. Go to WordPress Dashboard. Locate Plugins -> Add New
  2. Search Horizontal scrolling announcements plugin using search option
  3. Find the plugin and click Install Now button
  4. After installation, click on Activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.

Option 2:

  1. Download the plugin horizontal-scrolling-announcements.zip
  2. Go to WordPress Dashboard. Locate Plugins -> Add New
  3. Click on Upload Plugin link from top
  4. Upload the downloaded horizontal-scrolling-announcements.zip file and click on Install Now
  5. After installation, click on Activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.

FAQ

Q1. How to change scrolling speed?

Q2. How to change scrolling direction?

Q3. How to set expiration date for the announcement?

Reviews

Gulan 1, 2024
They said it wasn’t tested with the latest WP but it seems to work fine. It is simple and you can adjust the color and size of your text in your Customize panel. I love the simplicity of it!
Îlon 2, 2023
The plugin broke my Wordpress site which became very slow (latest version), even after uninstallation.I had to do a site restoration. Already indicated by others here and no answer…
Hezîran 22, 2023
Exactly as the title says. I had to remove this from a site we have just taken over after I determined that this was the cause of a slow admin. Avoid at all costs!
Adar 22, 2022
Even after deleting the announcement it still displays on the site. Support is also non-existing so all in all just another example of bad coding.
Cotmeh 27, 2021 1 reply
Completely slowed down the entire admin panel on my website – every click to anything took 20+ seconds to open
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Contributors & Developers

“Horizontal scrolling announcements” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.0

  • First version.

1.1

  • Tested up to 5.0

1.2

  • Tested up to 5.1

1.3

  • Tested up to 5.2

1.4

  • Tested up to 5.3

1.5

  • Change in admin design

1.6

  • Order length is increased. Now we can add 4 digit order.

1.7

  • Added time option in the admin, now we can select the start and end time along with the start and end date.

1.8

  • Tested up to 5.4

1.9

  • Tested up to 5.5

2.0

  • Added new option “Permission” in the admin to provide plugin permission to other admin roles.

2.1

  • Tested up to 5.7

2.2

  • Tested up to 5.8
  • Use plugin short code in the widget editor.

2.3

  • Tested up to 5.9

2.4

  • Tested up to 6.0
  • Added style option in the announcement admin page.

2.5

  • Tested up to 6.3
  • Vulnerability fix