“Live News” Documentation by “daext” v1.3
“Live News”
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Live News is a WordPress plugin inspired from the news ticker used by
broadcast television stations to communicate the latest news, financial
news, weather warnings, election results, etc.
This plugin updates the news with jQuery and AJAX in real time and your
users will be able to see your latest news without updating the
page.
How to create news
You can create you news in 3 different ways:
- Manually with the two forms
provided by the Live News plugin ( featured news and sliding news ),
in this case you can choose to display your latest news with the only
purpose to inform your users or you can also link your news to posts,
pages, external resource, etc.
- Automatically from your latest
posts ( from all the posts or only from posts of a specific
category ). Will be used the post title and the post excerpt.
- From a specified RSS and
your news will be always automatically synchronized with no effort.
You can get your news from the CNN, BBC, Reuters or whatever you want.
Customization
You can customize Live News with the following options:
- Main Color - In this demo i have used Red but you can set your
favorite rgb color with a color picker.
- Hide the Featured News - A checkbox that allows you to hide the
Featured News.
- Hide the Clock - You can hide the clock with this option.
- Enable RTL Layout - This option is useful for Arabic, Hebrew and
Urdu blogs.
- Font Family - Here you can select your favorite typeface.
- Google Fonts - This is useful to load a Google Web Font.
- Featured News Title Font Size - This option set the font size of the
Featured News Title.
- Featured News Excerpt Font Size - As above but for the Featured News
Excerpt.
- Excerpt Length - Enter a maximum length for the post excerpt.
- Sliding News Speed - This allows you to set the sliding news speed.
- Number of Sliding News - Self explained option useful to set the
number of news that slide on the bottom.
- Clock Offset - This option adjusts the clock displayed on the left.
- Default Status ( Open/Closed ) - The Live News plugin on the
front-end is able to start open or closed based on your selection.
- News Mode - This option allows you to select the source of your
news. ( manually, from your recent posts or from a specified RSS )
- RSS URL - Here you can enter the RSS source. For example, if you
want to synchronize the news with the BBC World news you can enter
http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml. This option works only if
the News Mode option is set to RSS.
- Select the category - Select if you want posts of a specified
category or all the posts. ( This option works only in if the News
Mode option is set to Posts )
Specifically built for the Desktop version of your website
This plugin has been created for the desktop version of your website
and is automatically turned off if your website is visited from a mobile
device, this selection is not based on simple media queries but on the
user-agent string combined with specific HTTP headers.
Credits
Live News includes the following resources:
Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this plugin. As I said at
the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions
relating to this plugin. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist.
If you have a more general question relating to the plugins on
CodeCanyon, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your
question in the "Item Discussion" section.
Danilo Andreini