News Carousel
Usage
There is now a news carousel available, which looks the same as the sliding news box on the www.gsu.edu homepage. With it you can cycle through 4, 6, 8 or 10 news items from a feed of your choosing.
Screen capture during carousel transition
How It Works
Use the shortcode like this:
[news-carousel num=4 feed="http://news.gsu.edu/feed"]
Attributes
feed | The feed attribute can be any valid Wordpress Feed including categories, tags, etc.
tag feed format: http://site url/tag/tag name/feed The following links have more detailed information on feed urls for Wordpress http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds |
href | The href attribute sets the url for the News Tab on the right of the articles. Default is news.gsu.edu |
excerpt | either true or false to display the excerpt or hide it (default: false) |
pubauthor | true/false whether you allow this plugin homepage to be displayed in the footer or not (default: true) Displays 'Powered by RSS Just Better' in module area. Set 'false' to turn off. |
cachefeed | cache refresh for the feed (in seconds) (default: 3600 => 1h) |
link_text | The text of the rss feed link on the right side of the articles, the default is 'News.' |
num | Number of news items to rotate through. Must be either 4, 6, 8 or 10. NOTE: Do not put more items in the shortcode than are available in the feed, this will result in a broken news-carousel |
Example using all attributes
[news-carousel feed="http://theblackacretimes.com/feed/" href="http://theblackacretimes.com/" excerpt="true" pubauthor="false" cachefeed=2000 link_text="Blog" num=4]