I get nothing..

Part of the issue may be where it’s placed in your header. It looks like you’ve placed it in the #et-top-navigation div, which doesn’t have any width on desktop and is very small on mobile.

Try adding the ticker into one of your pages via shortcode to see if it works. The next step (if that works) would be to make sure you are adding the ticker where you actually want to add it in your header file.

Can you add it (again) to a test page with a shortcode and let me know the link to that page?

Thanks!

Thanks! For some reason the javascript for the ticker never gets going…

Try installing this plugin https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/query-monitor/ and also setting WP_DEBUG to true in your wp-config.php file and see if any javascript errors show up. I’m not seeing any in my browsers developer tools, but there must be something somewhere that’s killing the script.

Were you using the same ticker when you had it in both the header and middle of the page? If so, you need to add a unique_id to one of them (or both) or else they won’t run correctly. Examples:

[ditty_news_ticker id="15" unique_id="myuniqueid1"]

$atts = array(
  'unique_id' => myuniqueid2
);
ditty_news_ticker( 15, 'my-custom-class, your-custom-class', $atts );

So, attempt this and see if the main content ticker works again (while both are added).

I still think the placement of the ticker in your header may be affecting the ticker as it’s crunched into a little space. Try moving the placement of the ticker to just be inside the main div of the header.

I have made a reply on your gist with a suggestion.

Can you pick the ticker back in the header (where I suggested) so I can check it out? It looks like you have removed it, but I’ll need to see it “in action” to try and come up with some suggestions.

If you want to limit the display to a particular page for testing, wrap the shortcode in an if statement:

if( is_page('my-test-page') ) {
  echo do_shortcode('[ditty_news_ticker id="317"]');
}

I would just double-check the code again in your theme. And then also put a little text, like “test”, before or after the ticker code and see if that shows up.

But, I don’t see any HTML for the ticker when I looked at your HTML source now. Even if the ticker isn’t working, the HTML for the ticker should still be on your site.