WP fade in text news
April 22, 2011 |
Posted by:
Gopi R |
Wordpress plugin |
98 Comments |
Everybody loves fade in and fade out; this plugin will create the fade-in and out effect in the wordpress website. It is an superb excellent way to transition between announcements. Admin can add more announcement using plugin text management area.
Features of this plugin
- Easy to customize
- Short code available for page
- Short code available for post
Live demo available below, if you want to create the fade in effect for the post title, use my Fade in fade out post title plugin.
Live Demo
Installation instruction & configuration
Method 1
- Download the ‘wp fade in text news’ plugin (wp-fade-in-text-news.zip) from download location.
- Unpack the *.zip file and extract the / wp-fade-in-text-news/ folder.
- Drop the ‘wp-fade-in-text-news’ folder into your ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder.
- In word press administration panels, click on plug-in from the menu.
- You should see your new ‘wp-fade-in-text-news’ plug-in listed under Inactive plug-in tab.
- To turn the word presses plug-in on, click activate.
Method 2
- Go to ‘add new’ menu under ‘plugins’ tab in your word-press admin.
- Search ‘wp fade in text news’ plugin using search option.
- Find he plugin and click ‘Install Now’ link.
- Finally click activate plug-in link to activate the plug-in.
Method 3
- Download the ‘wp fade in text news’ plugin (wp-fade-in-text-news.zip) from download location.
- Go to ‘add new’ menu under ‘plugins’ tab in your word-press admin.
- Select upload link (top link menu).
- Upload the available wp-fade-in-text-news.zip file and click install now
- Finally click activate plug-in link to activate the plug-in.
Plugin configuration
Method 1
- Go to widget link under Appearance tab, Drag and drop ‘fade in text news’ widget into your side bar.
Method 2
- Copy and paste the given short code into page or post. Short code available in the below comment (first comment).
Method 3
- Use the below php code in the template PHP file to render this plugin.
- PHP code: <?php if (function_exists (FadeIn)) FadeIn(); ?>
Security
Only website admin and the user have the administrator privilege can see and change the setting and can add,update,delete the plugin fade-in text in the website administration area.
Administration → Settings → Fade-in text news
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1. How to arrange the plugin fade-in setting?
To update the plugin settings go to ‘Fadein text news’ menu under admin setting tab.
Administration → Settings → Fadein text news
Q2. How to update the existing plugin text?
To update the plug in default content go to ‘Fadein text news’ menu under admin setting tab and click the text management button.
Administration → Settings → Fadein text news → Text management button
Q3. Is possible to add the plugin more than one time in the same post or page?
No, only one time per page and post
Q4. How to group the announcement?
Use ‘group’ text box in the text management form to group the text announcement. and ‘widget’ is the default group for plugin widget.
Q5. How to display the announcement in the random order?
At present (version 1.0) we don’t have random order; always it show based on the order field in the text management form.
Q6. How to change the fade-in text CSS?
Just create the new CSS in your website CSS file with the name ‘FadeIn_CSS’. this is the ID of the fade-in DIV
Q7. My question is not listed in this FAQ?
Don’t worry; Just post the doubt in the comment section with correct email address.
[FADEIN_TEXT_NEWS GROUP="widget"]
Use the above code in the page or post to render this plugin. GROUP is used to separate the announcement text. you can create many records and can group them with the GROUP field in the text management area. please feel free to post your doubt.
Hi Gopi I have updated to version 3 but it does not seem to work! The last version was great and worked well. I am putting [FADEIN_TEXT_NEWS GROUP="widget"] this into the page html where Ii want the pop up to be displayed, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks, Sean.
Please check u have text with the group name widget.
Iv’e put the PHP code in my template.
the problem is that instead of seeing my text all I’m seeing is the word “undefined”.
any idea why?
Able to see the table and value in the database?? is this works in the widget ???
now I’m not seeing anything.
Iv’e put only one text line to test – but nothing is showing…
weird.
this is the code Iv’e pasted in the PHP:
when I reverted to “horizontal news” it works.
I casically want to swap between “horizontal” and “fade in”…
it’s no not working in the widget area as well.
any thoughts?
we can add only once in the page.. if u try to add more then one time in the same page. it will work only post.
I think you should add ‘widget’ on Group Name Field, in order to testimonials to show.
also, please explain these parameters:
Title:
Fade Out:
Fade In:
Fade:
Fade Step:
Fade Wait:
thanks for all the help and the hard work,
Rotem
These parameters are used to set the fade in effect.
please specify each and everyone of them separately to better understand their effect on the fade.
thanks
another one for you:
how do you make the announcements loop?
they stop after the last announcement.
thanks
No it wont stop; it show announcement in the round. ex : 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ….
what if i don’t want to group the announcements?
what is the behavior if many groups are activated (order of group display ect.).
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[FADEIN_TEXT_NEWS GROUP="mens"]
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MEN’s
A snipit from my code is shown above.
The fade in text message does not fade in but instead is formatted as underlined and solid
HELP !
Check with new version 2.0
Hej Gori
I have replaced Ticker with your plugin fade in text message. It worked great until I change some parameters under settings when is topped working. Only the first message shows and all formating is gone. Would it be possible for you to take a look at the site to see if you can find out what went wrong? If not, please let me know.
PS I uninstalled the plugin and reinstalled, but no change.DS
Thanks,
Harald
Now use version 2.0
I have tried both the method 1 and method 2 for the plugin configuration, both return : “undefined”
I have not tried the method 3 because I don’t know how I can try that.
How can you help for either of the 3 methods to work?
Thanks.
Samuel
Have you replaced widget in the short-code with what ever you named the messages?
I have this:
ID Message Group Order Display Action
1 Think positive! sample 1 YES Edit Delete
3 Keep moving! sample 3 YES Edit Delete
And the method 1 as described by Gopi say:
* Go to widget link under Appearance tab, Drag and drop ‘fade in text news’ widget into your side bar.
Do I need to replace the widget? If so how?
can u send your links.. check default value available in the admin and table..
Now in the version 3.0 we can add our HTML content in the text area… now in the demo i have included HTML content with color option.
I am using version 3.
It does not fade …. and the text is underlined.
Dan
Hi, i am using this plugin.Thir is one problem when i changed text color ,fade in and fade out effect not show.
By default, the script fades from black-to-white upon enter, and white-to-black upon exit.
So we can see the effect only with default color.
Plugin works great…. But How can I get the pop to appear in the foreground… My movies and email list is appearing in front of it…..
can u share the link… and u try to change the z index css for ur movies or fade text.
How do I adjust the Z index?
I have installed “Fade in Text News” plugin,
under the Text Management settings after entering all the required field like “Message” “Display Status” “Group Name” “Display Order” there is a field for “Link” what is this link…..???? and what should be entered there….??? I am the web admin…..but a novice in this field can you explain me in simple steps as to what to enter in the “Link” field.Thank you.
Link field : This is the redirect link for that text. if the user click that text the page will redirect to that link.
Target : This option is to open the link in new window or same window.
I dont have “Target : This option is to open the link in new window or same window.” I use “Version 3.0″
Hi Gopi,
First – great plug-in! I loved watching the fade in/out when I first installed it.
Unfortunately, it no longer works for me…. only “undefined” now.
I put in my own texts and I deleted the sample texts. Then I only get undefined.
I deactivated plug-in, then reactivated — “undefined”
I deactivated, deleted, reinstalled and — “undefined”
I would like help, but I’m already searching for another plug-in. I hope I can use your “WP fade in text news” but it doesn’t look good for me.
Hope you can help. Thanks,
-Jeff
Ok no problem. just enter only one record in the admin and see the front end .. enter clear text ( no special character ). and share the admin screen or link…
To fix “undefined” message you must to deactivate the plugin, and then activate. That’s all. It works for me.
Thanks for the great plugin.
Update: “undefined” Message:
The plugin only works if I choose “widget” as name in the “Group name” field in “Text management” configuration.
May be this is a bug, but is easy to fix it only using “widget” as name in the “Group name”.
Cheers!
The concept is group name”widget” is for widget purpose. and user defined group name is for short code.
Fiest of all, let me congratulate you your excellnet plugin.
I have 4″ blocks” of text, that I want to be spaced out exactly over 80 seconds, like this: Display first text for 30 seconds, followed by blank for 10 second, followed by second text 30 seconds, followed by blank 10 second.
How should I set the parameters below?
Fade Out:
Fade In:
Fade:
Fade Step:
Fade Wait:
I have experimented with several, and don’t now exactly what to do to recreate the timing I described above.
Thanks!
how do i change the colour of fade in and fade out? my website has a black background, so i want default text to be white and fade effect to be black. great plugin btw, thanks a lot lot!
how do i change the colour of fade in and fade out? my website has a black background, so i want default text to be white and fade effect to be black. great plugin btw, thanks a lot lot
Its fade-in from white to black and black to white …. we cant control…
hello is it possible that someone tell me or show me how to center the popup and make it over the amazon carrousel ?
thx for youe great help.
oups sorry wrong section !!!
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does absolutely nothing, not a glimps of the popup
I got your fade in text news to work but the underlined link text is distracting. I see you do not have the problem in your demo. How do I get rid of link lines when not having cursor over the text? Thanks in advance.
Marcus
If you visit my home page now, there is a video which covers up most of the pop up.
Is there a way to get the pop up on the top layer? or if not, is there a way to change the width and height so as to have the pop up be in a different position with regard to the video?
Thanks.
Gopi,
Your plugin looks like it would be perfect for what I’d like to do. But I have a problem. How do I get rid of the underline in the text? We must specify a link for each text entry, but I don’t want the text to have an underline when it shows on the web page. Where can I change the “text decoration” to “none” so the underline does not show? Thank you.
I think this underline coming from your theme css.
how i can change the color of the type?? how are the parameters?¿?
no color change option.. bcos of fade in effect we need to maintain the black color…
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Good plugin, but I can’t use it because of the underline problem mentioned above. I know it’s CSS, but it’s too much trouble to change just to make this work. The easy answer for me would be for you to remove the need for the the message to have a Link associated with it – for my initial application I don’t need it to have a link. If I did need it to link then having the underline may not be such a problem – but it would still be good to turn it off.
Also, I think you should put some basic help text on the config screen to help people understand the settings page, and you could have made life easier by including the shortcode in the message settings page so people could just cut and paste.
FadeIn_CSS
In this CSS class u can control the Underline… create the new css with this class name in your theme css file…
Hi, good plugin. Where can I find the CSS file to edit? As I too would like to get rid of the underlined text.
Thanks
Eddie
Hello, i’m new with this plugin as well as with wordpress. i have installed this plugin into my demo website and i can say you have done a magnificent work. However, there is something that i really need for my website. can i use recent post from blog category? if yes i would need some instructions or something to make it work.
thank you
Best
Gzim
Hi, As per your requirements, plugin available in my plugin list…
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its not working. showing undefined. how can i fix it?
Does this plug in have any custom capability? I only want a role set up in user role editor plugin to have access to fade in text news plug-in. Even though I have added new capability fade_in_text_news in the user role editor for the role in question it does not allow the role to access the plug-in. Any ideas how I can do this or do I need to find a text displaying plugin that has custom capability?
hello, working on a popup add that is almost full width. I am using something that is banner size, and I am having trouble with cool fade popup. I have edited the css file to allow me the width to make that work, but it tells me that the css file is inactive. can you please email or give guidance as to the correct css that needs to be placed to facilitate full screen or large popups??
This plug-in worked really well to begin with, but now the text simply switches from one piece of text to the next, with no fading. Can you please specify what the parameters do? I know you’ve said that they control the way the fade effect works, but please let us know how they work, so that I can get the text fading again!!
Plug in is Not Working
I see the “[POPUP=IMG1]” at the top of the page
Gopi, thank you for the plugin. I would like to have the text appear in-line; i.e., no line breaks. Editing a CSS would be ideal, and I see references to FadeIn_CSS but do not see the CSS file where this class is defined. Can you explain further?
CSS file is in theme folder.
Gopi, here are a few things that would be really great:
1. Enable/disable the linking.
2. Link should be able to do “target=_blank” so that a new window is opened if needed.
3. Ability to put the text completely inline with existing text. I have not yet been able to do this with CSS.
4. Ability to style the font (color, size, etc.)
Thank you for considering!
I have your plugin installed on my site and I love it. However I can’t get it to stop jumping when it switches from one line to another, is there a way to make it a default size? Thanks so much!
You should create a help document that explains all the technical questions so that users can easily get these answers instead of having to scroll thru postings, most of which are not answered. Here are my questions that also include questions from others that were not answered:
1. I have entered on my page. It only displays items created with the group name of “widget”, why? Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of creating groups? I use the php code because I’m entering it in a php file/template – I don’t want to use the widget feature nor the short-code because I want this on more than just one page.
2. Settings issues/questions:
Title: <- this does not show up; why?
What are the timings for the settings below? Is this in milliseconds or seconds? The first two sound obvious but what exactly are the last three?
Fade Out:
Fade In:
Fade:
Fade Step:
Fade Wait:
3. I want my link for the text to launch another window instead of navigating away from my page. However it appears that you can't put html code in the link field. You have a posting on May 19, 2011 at 3:08 pm where you mention "Target" but like the "Gigy" person I don't see that option either. How to have this launch a new window?
Thanks.
Hello well I’ve got a same issue i suppose…! i installed and paste the php code in my template..but the result comes with ‘undefined’ message instead of my own entered text.
any solution to fix this bug..?
Having trouble getting it to work. I have four text messages set to “Yes” display and each is part of a group called “widget”. I added this to the bottom of the page in the html section “[FADEIN_TEXT_NEWS GROUP="widget"]” but no show. I’ve tried adding it to the sidebar and it doesn’t show up there either. I’m missing something but what?
The rotation doesn’t work at all. does that go tot do with the setup (that you don’t answer about….):
Fade Out:
Fade In:
Fade:
Fade Step:
Fade Wait:
also please, I’ve got “” in the titles could they be causing this problem?
Also, I’ve got another scrooling widget of yours, can they be at the same page?
thank you, Shlomo
I deleted the original sample text and added one of my own, now the fader only displays “undefined” over and over again.
hey James,
I’m not Gopi, but I did have the same problem you have.
Here is how you fix it:
Enter just one record in the admin. Look at the front end .. enter clear text (no special character).
Share the admin screen or link
Fixed.
hay Gopi nice work, i just want to tell u that the link option is not necessary, can u remove that or make option on / off link
Thanks!
If you dont have link just enter the “#” or lev the field blank.
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Good plugin, but I can’t use it because of the underline problem mentioned above. I know it’s CSS, but it’s too much trouble to change just to make this work. The easy answer for me would be for you to remove the need for the the message to have a Link associated with it – for my initial application I don’t need it to have a link. If I did need it to link then having the underline may not be such a problem – but it would still be good to turn it off.
Also, I think you should put some basic help text on the config screen to help people understand the settings page, and you could have made life easier by including the shortcode in the message settings page so people could just cut and paste.
am working for this…
Having trouble getting it to work. I have four text messages set to “Yes” display and each is part of a group called “widget”. I added this to the bottom of the page in the html section “[FADEIN_TEXT_NEWS GROUP="widget"]” but no show. I’ve tried adding it to the sidebar and it doesn’t show up there either. I’m missing something but what?
I’m having the same issue. My widget works, but the shortcode in my page doesn’t.
Hello, using your plugin on the home page only using Conditional tags and ‘do shortcode’ in my template file. When I go to an interior page, Firebug shows an error repeating:
“FadeIn_bFadeOutt is not defined [Break On This Error] if (FadeIn_bFadeOutt) {”
I’m using:
if ( is_front_page() ) {
// display certain sidebar content on home page only
if (function_exists (FadeIn)) FadeIn();
echo “”;
} else {
// catch-all for everything else (archives, searches, 404s, etc)
echo “”;
} // That’s all, folks!
I tried using “echo do_shortcode(“[FADEIN_TEXT_NEWS GROUP='widget']“);” instead and that didn’t work at all.
I need to clear up these errors in order to use this plugin. Any suggestions? My knowledge of conditional tags is very limited so if I made any mistakes, please let me know. Thanks!
I’d be happy to send you a link to my temporary site to show you but I’d rather not post it publicly. Thanks for your help in advance!
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can we remove the link
i have dark background of fade in text news. default settings are not useful i want contraversy effect… please tell me how to
The frustrating thing about this plugin is that it is almost a great idea. As stated in above comments, it only works if the group name is “widget” otherwise you get an undefined message.
I tried another group name, no special characters or anything .e.g “mygroup” and get the undefined message, so I am forced to always use the group name “widget” for it to work.
Someone already highlighted this exact bug, but I noticed the plugin author responded, but in their response did not acknowledge the bug, so to this day, the bug remains.
I have fixed the bug regarding the fact that it ONLY works with the group name ‘widget’ so that it now can work with any group name.
In the file wp-fade-in-text-news.php around line 54 it says:
$sSql = “select FadeIn_text,FadeIn_link from “.WP_FadeIn_TABLE.” where FadeIn_status=’YES’ and FadeIn_group=’widget’”;
which is a problem because it is ONLY retrieving records from the database if they have the group name “widget”. All you need to do is shorten this line to this:
$sSql = “select FadeIn_text,FadeIn_link from “.WP_FadeIn_TABLE.” where FadeIn_status=’YES’”;
I keep getting ‘Undefined’ instead of the message that it should be.
I have two entries with text.
Any ideas on how to fix it?
As Peter said above, changing the group name to ‘widget’ makes it work. Looks like a bug then.
Any way to center the popup or otherwise set its position?
Ihave code in my theme below:
maybe can help you.
But @admin, when I hardcode your function into my template, I don’t know how to filter into group.
When I took
it produce an error.Pls, give us your light.
Thx.
Oops, html code is not accepted here…
div style=”text-align:center;”
?php if (function_exists (FadeIn)) FadeIn(); ?
/div
*you should add ” at begin and end of each line.