Very recently at the request of a client, I looked for a plugin that allows you to display news in a vertical slider. I found its request quite curious, but when I came across this plugin, I understood all its interest, and I come to offer you this alternative as well.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to display news in a vertical slider. If a point I raise is beyond your understanding, please let us know.

But before, if you have never installed WordPress discover How to install a WordPress blog in 7 steps et How to search, install and activate a WordPress theme on your blog 

Then back to why we are here.

How to install the plugin "Vertical News Scroller"

The first thing to do is of course to install and activate the Plugin from your dashboard. But you can also download The plugin as a zip file. and install it via FTP.

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How to add a new news

After activating the plugin, you will notice a new menu " Manage Scrolling News " on your dashboard. Click on it to access the settings page.

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On this new page, which is a kind of custom publication format (Custom Post Type), you will see all the different news you have created there. For the moment, no news is available. So I invite you to click on the button " Add new To create a new news.

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Once on this new page, you will notice that it offers several different sections that allow you to define:

  • The title of the news " News title »
  • The url to a page " News Url »
  • News content " News Content »

Once done, click on " Save Changes »To record the news. Now, on the plugin's home page, you will see the various news. From this page also, you can manage these news by clicking on " Delete To delete or " Edit " to modify.

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How to display the news slider on your blog

To do this, you need to navigate to the location " Appearance >> Widgets To add the widget Vertical News Scroll »

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By adding this widget to any of your blog sections, you will notice that this widget has several options that allow you to set:

  • Title
  • Define the number of news items to display " Max item from news »
  • The height of the slider Height of slider »
  • Its internal margin Padding »
  • Whether or not to display news content
  • The time before automatic scrolling
  • The number of news items displayed by scrolling.

So much to see... 8 plugins to add widgets to your dashboard

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Add this widget to one of the sections of your blog. Once that's done, you can go to your blog, to see how the plugin looks.

Before we leave

You should know that there is a premium version of the plugin, which costs only $ 16 and adds new improvements. You can consult the demo of the plugin in question finally to see how it is displayed.

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Conclusion

Here ! That's it for this tutorial on displaying a topical vertical slider on your blog. Do not hesitate to share with your friends on your favorite social networks

However, you will also be able to consult our resources, if you need more elements to carry out your projects of creation of Internet sites, by consulting our guide on the WordPress blog creation.

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