Run the site-wide ticker
Switch on the broadcast-style bar, style it with its 14 settings, and feed it typed lines, news feeds, your schedule, alerts and match scores.
The ticker is a broadcast-style bar pinned to the top or bottom of every page on your site. It scrolls lines from three sources, can show a breaking-news alert band, and can add a strip of live match cards. It’s always part of the Studio — there’s no feature switch — but who can change what depends on two permissions.
| Studio → Ticker screen | What it’s for | Permission needed |
|---|---|---|
| Ticker Dashboard | The master switch status and shortcuts to every area | Either ticker permission |
| Settings | Look and behaviour: the 14 settings below | Configure ticker |
| Alerts | The breaking-news band | Use ticker |
| Content | Lines you type | Use ticker |
| RSS Feeds | Lines pulled from news feeds | Configure ticker |
| Events Feeds | Lines built from your own events | Configure ticker |
| Score Ticker | Match cards with scores | Use ticker |
The 14 settings
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ticker enabled | The master switch that shows the bar site-wide |
| Show alerts section | Shows or hides the alert band |
| Show logo | Shows the logo at the start of the bar |
| Show clock | Shows a clock in the bar |
| Main color | The bar’s main colour |
| Text color | The colour of the scrolling text |
| Alert background | The alert band’s colour |
| Alert text | The alert band’s text colour |
| Scroll speed (1–10) | How fast lines scroll. It also sets how quickly alerts rotate. |
| Direction | Left → Right or Right → Left |
| Position | Top or Bottom of the page |
| Font family | The typeface name for the bar |
| Refresh interval (seconds) | How often the bar checks for new lines, from 3 to 600 |
| Logo | The image shown when Show logo is on, picked from your media library |
- 1Style the bar
Go to Studio → Ticker → Settings and set the colours, Scroll speed, Direction and Position.
- 2Add your logo
Under Logo, press SELECT IMAGE and choose an image from the media library.
- 3Switch it on
Turn on Ticker enabled and press SAVE SETTINGS.
The three content sources
| Source | Where | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| Typed lines | Studio → Ticker → Content | NEW ITEM, type the Text, and optionally set a Start date and End date |
| News feeds | Studio → Ticker → RSS Feeds | NEW FEED with a Title and Feed URL, plus an optional category filter, Max items, and a refresh interval of at least 60 seconds |
| Your schedule | Studio → Ticker → Events Feeds | Filter by conference, group or genre, or upcoming events only. Choose to include teams, scores, date and venue, and write the line in Display format with {title}, {teams}, {scores}, {date} and {venue}. |
Post a breaking-news alert
- 1Create the alert
Go to Studio → Ticker → Alerts and press NEW ALERT.
- 2Write it
Enter a Title and Description, and a Link URL if the alert should open a page.
- 3Schedule it
Set a Start date and End date so the alert takes itself down, tick Active and press SAVE.
Show match scores
In Studio → Ticker → Score Ticker, press NEW MATCH. Link it to an event, or leave it standalone. Add a Match title and Match date, then each team’s name, score, colour, logo, home or away position, conference and group. Display format sets the line that scrolls, using {team_a}, {team_b}, {score_a}, {score_b}, {title} and {date}. Active matches appear as cards in the score strip, and each one also adds a line in Content labelled Score Ticker.