jNewsticker is a powerful jQuery plugin designed to seamlessly integrate into your website. Pre-packed with three news ticker styles and three skins, you can easily create your own skins.
Three news ticker animations
jNewsticker is about giving you choice. Out of the box, it comes with three styles of news ticker:
- Fade between news items (one is displayed at a time)
- Continuously scroll between news items
- Reveal news items, one character at a time (also known as the typewriter effect)
And if you understand Javascript and jQuery, you can create your own news ticker styles to sit on top of jNewsticker.
Get news content from RSS feeds, Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm
With jNewsticker, you can get your news items directly from RSS feeds, Twitter, a Facebook page and Last.fm. You can even set how many news items you want to retrieve from each source, and format items differently depending on whether they are from Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm or an RSS feed.
In other words, you can populate your news ticker with the last 5 entries from your Tumblr blog, your last three tweets and the last three tunes you’ve scribbled to Last.fm.
Please note that due to the way Facebook locks down access to individual profile’s Facebook posts, the Facebook integration only works for Facebook pages.
Features at a glance
- Three professionally designed skins
- Three in-built news ticker animation styles: fade, scroll and reveal
- Design your own skins
- Extend with your own news ticker animation styles
- Get news items from RSS feeds, Twitter, your Facebook page and Last.fm
- Fine-grained control over how items loaded from RSS , Last.fm, Twitter or Facebook are displayed
- Handles window resizing
- Supports multiple instances on a page
- Full documentation covering how to implement the news ticker, theming guide and developer guide
- Compatible with IE7 +, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera
Feature requests? Let us hear them.
We have a WordPress version in the works, but beyond that, we would love to hear your suggestions on how to improve jNewsticker.