Modern News Ticker for WordPress

Description

modern news codeis a powerful, flexible, fast, easy-to-use and customizable news ticker. It offers a variety of features while still being lightweight and easy to use:

It has 15 different themes to choose from.
It has 4 different effects: scroll, fade, type and slide.
It has 4 different layouts including news items, front tabs and control buttons.
Corners can be set to be round or square.
News items can be entered manually, or WP posts can be used as news items.
Also, WP posts can be used as a feed source.
It can upload RSS, JSON and Twitter feeds.
Feeds can be set to refresh automatically.
It has 30 available settings to control content, effects, feeds and other behaviors.
It has 3 methods to control autoplay and feed refresh.
It's responsive.
It includes ongoing support and upgrades.
NEW: RTL support.

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Updates

1.9.0 (March 20, 2020):

For news items entered via the admin UI, added support for the "span" tag so that parts of the text can be formatted differently via CSS if needed.The attributes supported by the "span" tag are: "id", "class" and "style".
Added a new setting called "Random Order" to the "Other" meta box to be able to set news items to appear in a random order.This applies to manually entered news items as well as news items loaded from the feed.
Added a new setting called "Center Alignment" to the "Other" meta box to be able to set news items to be center aligned. Available for effects other than Scroll.

1.8.1 (January 3, 2020):

Fixed an issue that prevented tweet links from opening correctly.

1.8.0 (November 14, 2019):

Added a new setting to the Twitter stream called "Exclude replies" to exclude replies from the returned stream.
Added a new setting called "Include Retweets" to the Twitter feed to be able to include retweets in the returned feed.
Made the feed preloader display a little faster.
Added "Changelog.txt" file and moved version changes previously listed in "Readme.txt" file here.

1.7.0 (September 26, 2019):

Added RTL support. A new setting is available in the 'Other' meta box on the code's admin page, called 'Orientation', which can be set to either Left-to-Right (LTR) (default) or Right-to-Left (RTL).
Move the JS source files from the "Sources/js" project folder to the "modern-news-ticker/public/js" plugin folder next to the minified version.
Fixed news item height issue appearing in some themes.
Other minor modifications.

1.6.2 (September 17, 2019):

Added a new option called "rss2json API key" on the Settings page to be able to specify an API key for the rss2json service if needed.

1.6.1 (May 11, 2019):

Fixed an admin bug in the recently released WordPress 5.2 version.

1.6.0 (January 15, 2019):

Due to the recent shutdown of the YQL service by Yahoo, the "YQL" loading process type for RSS feeds has been removed.
The "rss2json" load process is now the default load process for RSS feeds, and the "Self" load process also acts as a backup.
As a backwards compatibility, if the code's load process is set to "YQL", it automatically defaults to "rss2json".
Fixed a bug that caused the 'Post Labels' setting of the 'Feed' meta box to display when it was not applicable.

1.5.0 (December 13, 2018):

Added an option to select placement markers in the "postings" stream.
Added 'tags' column to 'add post' modal.
Fixed some minor bugs.

1.4.1 (10 Aug 2018):

Fixed a bug that sometimes occurred on the admin page when saving code in some older versions of PHP.

1.4.0 (March 28, 2018):

Added an option to select placement categories in the "postings" stream.
Added "Category" column to "Add Post" modal.

1.3.0 (March 12, 2018):

Added possibility to add WP posts as news items.
Added a new feed option to use WP placements as a feed source.
Fixed an issue that caused RSS feeds to not load correctly when using the "rss2json" service from an HTTPS page.
Improvements have been made to managing JS files so errors from unrelated JS files no longer sometimes prevent them from functioning properly.
Fixed an issue that caused not all created codes to sometimes show up in shortcode insert mode.
Fixed an issue that caused not all created code to sometimes show up in the widget dropdown.
Other minor modifications and improvements.

1.2.0 (July 19, 2017):

Improved code comments for main plugin files.
Fixed an issue that caused post type single pages to not work correctly without updating permalinks.
Improved how JSON feeds are loaded when Load Type is set to Processing.
Improved insert mode appearance and code.
Some other small code improvements.

1.1.0 (June 8, 2017):

Fixed an issue that caused shortcode content to sometimes not display in the correct location.
Fixed an issue that caused the code release page to not display correctly on some older PHP installations.
The code has been improved, the same code (with the same ID) can now be added multiple times on the same page.
Improved code so that ticker CSS files are only loaded when shortcodes are used on the page.
Improved update functionality so that plugins no longer need to be deactivated when updating files.
Added support for being able to install Envato Market plugins from admin notifications. This can be used to easily install and update any of your Envato WP projects, including tickers.
A series of other minor modifications and improvements have been made.

1.0.0 (May 6, 2017):