collective.newsticker

A horizontal, text-based display dedicated to presenting headlines on a site.


Keywords
plone, jquery, news, ticker, news-ticker
License
GPL-3.0
Install
pip install collective.newsticker==2.1b2

Documentation

News Ticker

News Ticker

Table of Contents

Life, the Universe, and Everything

A horizontal, text-based display dedicated to presenting headlines on a site.

Features

  • jQuery-based, lightweight and easy to use
  • Configurable via configlet
  • Users have full control on what items to display by using collections

Mostly Harmless

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Got an idea? Found a bug? Let us know by opening a support ticket.

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Installation

To enable this product in a buildout-based installation:

  1. Edit your buildout.cfg and add collective.newsticker to the list of eggs to install:
[buildout]
...
eggs =
    collective.newsticker

After updating the configuration you need to run ''bin/buildout'', which will take care of updating your system.

Go to the 'Site Setup' page in a Plone site and click on the 'Add-ons' link.

Check the box next to ''News Ticker'' and click the 'Activate' button.

Usage

  • Open 'News Ticker' configlet on Plone's 'Site Setup'.
  • Select the collection containing the items you want to display.

That's it! You will see the items included in the collection on a site-wide news ticker.

You can click on any item to open it.

Screenshots

The configlet.

The configlet.

The News Ticker in action.

The News Ticker in action.