I am not good at code so am a bit in the hands of anyone who might be able to help.
I have a functioning Ticker Tape working in my wordpress site here www.solosails.com
currently, it works from data manually entered, I would like to modify it so that it takes the title and link from my RSS feed myurl/feed hopefully by using something like this ...
$.get(FEED_URL, function (data) {
$(data).find("entry").each(function () { // or "item" or whatever suits your feed
var el = $(this);
console.log("------------------------");
console.log("title : " + el.find("title").text());
console.log("author : " + el.find("author").text());
console.log("description: " + el.find("description").text());
});
});
The Java Script code is...
function startTicker(){theCurrentStory=-1;theCurrentLength=0;if(document.getElementById){theAnchorObject=document.getElementById("tickerAnchor");runTheTicker()}else{document.write("Error");return true}}function runTheTicker(){var e;if(theCurrentLength==0){theCurrentStory++;theCurrentStory=theCurrentStory%theItemCount;theStorySummary=theSummaries[theCurrentStory];theTargetLink=theSiteLinks[theCurrentStory];theAnchorObject.href=theTargetLink}theAnchorObject.innerHTML=theStorySummary.substring(0,theCurrentLength)+whatWidget();if(theCurrentLength!=theStorySummary.length){theCurrentLength++;e=theCharacterTimeout}else{theCurrentLength=0;e=theStoryTimeout}setTimeout("runTheTicker()",e)}function whatWidget(){if(theCurrentLength%2==1){return theWidgetOne}else{return theWidgetNone}}
This is the part of the code that potentially needs altering so that the hardcoded links and titles become the new code pulling from the rss feed...
var theCharacterTimeout = 50;
var theStoryTimeout = 4000;
var theWidgetOne = "_";
var theWidgetNone = "";
var theSummaries = new Array();
var theSiteLinks = new Array();
var theItemCount = 2;
theSummaries[0] = "Solo Sails proudly sponsor Lizzy Foremans Mini Transat Campaign... Read more here ...";
theSiteLinks[0] = "http://www.solosails.com/solo-sails-sponsor-lizzie-foremans-mini-transat-campaign/"
theSummaries[1] = "10% discounts on ALL multiple sail orders !! Try us for price with your new sails, complete our simple quote form here.";
theSiteLinks[1] = "http://www.solosails.com/quotes"
startTicker();
Many thanks in advance if you can help!
Andrew