by Nikki Blight 3.8 (5 reviews)

Scheduled Announcements Widget

Name: Scheduled Announcements Widget
Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Author: Nikki Blight

The Scheduled Announcements Widget lets you add a scrolling list of site announcements to any widgetized area of your site.

Scheduled Announcements Widget ranks #14,144 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, a 3.8/5 rating from 5 reviews, and was last updated Mar 10, 2023. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.1 (Current: 7.1.4)

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Updated 3 years ago Last Update on 10 Mar, 2023

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 3 months ago

Mar 20, 2023

Scheduled Announcements Widget [scheduled-announcements-widget] < 1.0 (closed)

CVE-2023-0363 · Fixed in v1.0

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: Mar 10, 2023
Requires WP: 3.2.1+
Tested Up To: 6.1
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Nikki Blight

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 3.8
Reviews: 5
Support Threads: 0
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TL;DR

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This plugin is for site owners and administrators who want to display announcements separately from regular posts and pages. It solves the problem of publicizing time-sensitive events, alerts, or notices by scheduling scrolling announcements in widget areas or theme files.

Scrolling announcement widget
Independent of posts and pages
Usable in theme files
Scheduled date ranges
Indefinite scheduling option
Horizontal or vertical scrolling
Uses JSColor library

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Scheduled Announcements Widget

Yes, as of version 0.1.1. Each Announcement now includes a numerical Order field. You can set whether you want the widget to display Announcements in ascending or descending order based on this field in the plugin's Settings panel.

Yes, using the shortcode [announcements] The shortcode function will use the default configuration options set in Announcements > Settings, but those settings can be overriden and customized manually using any of the following variables. title - Will display a header title above the ticker show_titles - Will show or hide the title field of the announcements. Set to 1 for show, 0 for hide. order - Set whether announcements display in ascending or descending order. Valid options are 'ASC' or 'DESC'. scroll - The scroll style of the ticker. Valid options are 'horizontal' or 'vertical'. speed - The speed in milliseconds at which the ticker will scroll transition - The length in milliseconds at which the scroll animation will take to complete width - The width in pixels of the ticker height - The height in pixels of the ticker link - The hexidecimal color code to use for links in the announcments (eg. 0000FF for blue) text - The hexidecimal color code to use for links in the announcments (eg. 000000 for black) saw_id - User specificed CSS ID for the ticker. Required if using more than one ticker shortcode on a page. tax - The taxonomy/category ID (you may use the ID or the slug) to filter by For example: [announcements title="Announcements" order="ASC" show_titles="1" scroll="horizontal" speed="4000" transition="800" width="600" height="50" link="0000FF" text="000000" saw_id="news" tax="news"]

Yes. Assign a category to your announcement, and then select that category from the dropdown menu in the widget settings. If you are using the shortcode rather than the widget, set the "tax" attribute to either the ID or slug of the category you wish to display. Make sure you are using slugs/IDs for the Announcement Categories (displayed under the Announcements tab in the Dashboard) and not the default Wordpress Categories. [announcements tax="news"] or [announcements tax="7"] I want to put more than one ticker on a page, but it breaks when I try. You need to give each ticker its own unique id. In the shortcode this is done with the saw_id attribute (see shortcode example two questions back). In the widget, just fill in the text box label Ticker ID. You should also avoid the use of hypens in your ID names, because it will royally mess up the javascript. In most cases, if you forget, the plugin will automatically replace them with underscores.

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