Help – New Ditty

It looks like the “new-home” page is using the legacy ticker as well. Are you having trouble making a new ticker with Ditty or displaying on the page? Make sure you are using the shortcode for the new ticker, should look like:

[ditty id=####]

Thank you for responding. I’m having issues making the new ticker look exactly like the legacy one. All aspects of the legacy ticker need to be on the new one and I can’t figure it out. I am using the Kadencewp theme.

Here’s a (silent) video showing what is needed to replicate the legacy ticker in Ditty: https://www.loom.com/share/0c6c587cc95248c1a6d33d08ad4efd28?sid=0a1e0923-cee9-42bd-8f01-ebcb6d0969c4

1. Add your items to the items list
2. Switch to the Display tab and select Ticker as the display type
3. Adjust your spacing and speed in the General panel
4. Click the Styles tab
5. Set your Font, size, line-height and color under Item Styles
6. Optionally, scroll down to the Container Styles and set the container background color

It looks like the elemen you have the ticker contained in already has the blue background color with extra padding, so you don’t need to add the container background color if you don’t want.

Hopefully this helps you out.

Thank you so much got everything to work but the “font size” I cannot get it to increase to an 40 pixels or larger. Is the theme overriding this setting?

It looks like you’ll need to modify the layout of your items as the layout has a defined font-size in the css. This will override the font-size set by your display.

1. Hover over your item in the editor
2. Click the layout icon
3. Click Customize
4. Select the CSS tab

You’ll probably see some css that is setting the font properties. Delete those and update the layout and you should see the settings you’ve set in the display.

Thank you. I was finally able to figure it out.

Great, thanks for letting me know!