TECHED.TV Ticker

Displays the latest items from a feed as a horizontal scrolling strip:
thumbnail, title and date, pausing when hovered or focused.

• Reads any RSS or Atom feed – podcast, YouTube, Medium, another WordPress site
• Falls back to this site’s own /feed/podcast if no URL is given
• When the feed is local, thumbnails come from the real featured images
• Otherwise falls back to itunes:image, media:thumbnail or an enclosure image
• Cached in a transient, so the feed is fetched rarely, not per page view
• Place it with a shortcode, a widget, a template tag, or automatically
• No jQuery, no build step, no external requests beyond the feed itself
• Respects prefers-reduced-motion: falls back to a static scrollable strip

Usage

Shortcode:

[teched-tv-ticker]

With overrides:

[teched-tv-ticker feed="https://medium.com/feed/techedtv" count="8" speed="60" label="From Medium"]

Template tag, anywhere in a theme:

<?php if ( function_exists( 'techedtv_ticker_render' ) ) { techedtv_ticker_render(); } ?>

Return the markup instead of printing it:

<?php $html = techedtv_ticker_get( array( 'count' => 6 ) ); ?>

There is also a “TECHED.TV Ticker” widget under Appearance > Widgets.