Flash News Plugin is an awesome tool to share hot news and short information with your customers in a very efficient way. The plugin generates a top/bottom bar by running a repeating infinite loop generated by news.
Besides plugins like Blog plugins, the flash news plugin is much more efficient when sharing one-line short messages and information that should be visible to everyone without the need to access the news or blog section. Alternatively, they might be used to announce new articles on a blog, new promotions, time-limited discounts etc.
News messages should be short 1-line information that can be quickly read in running top bar news box. The plugin allows to creation unlimited number of news as well as sorting them in different ways.
Besides plugins like Blog plugins, the flash news plugin is much more efficient when sharing one-line short messages and information that should be visible to everyone without the need to access the news or blog section. Alternatively, they might be used to announce new articles on a blog, new promotions, time-limited discounts etc.
News messages should be short 1-line information that can be quickly read in running top bar news box. The plugin allows to creation unlimited number of news as well as sorting them in different ways.
Create hot messages/news
The message basically contains from title & description, but it has much more customization options:- Title - highlighted part of the message at the start
- Description - news details, should not be too long
- Link - optional, when defined, click on open message link in new window
- Locale - create a message for customers with specified locale only, or show for all locales
- Shape & Color - attention-grabbing element to create the shape of defined color at the start of message (i.e. red circle, blue square, yellow diamond, ...)
- Enabled - enable or disable the message, when it should not be visible
- Date - timestamp when the message was created or updated
News box configuration and customization
The plugin comes with rich configuration and customization options to make the design of the news box match your theme or brand design.- Enable - enable or disable the news box completely. This allows quickly disabling the news bar when not needed, without uninstalling the plugin.
- Position - news bar can be positioned at the top or bottom
- Display - the type of box display, that can be fixed (always visible) or absolute
- Direction - the direction of running messages, can be left to right or right to left, which means from which side are messages running.
- Speed - speed of running messages slide. The slide can also be disabled by setting the speed to 0.
- Show date - select if you would like to show create/update date of messages to customers.
- Colors - select the news box background and font color
- Sorting - sort messages by ID asc/desc or by Date asc/desc
- Other - font size, margin, padding, border radius, custom CSS code
