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Posted on Sunday, 4 December, 2005

THIS PLUGIN IS NOT XHTML COMPLIANT

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WP-Marquee (WordPress Marquee) is a great plugin for Wordpress that enables site admin’s to be able to update a scrolling marquee with ease. This is done in the form of a plug-in which is highly configurable from the sites admin panel.

Key Features:

  1. Simple Intergration
  2. Update without changing a single PHP or HTML page.
  3. Don’t have anything to Marquee? Hide and Unhide option.
  4. Highly Configurable

Requirements:

  1. Wordpress 2.0+
  2. About 13.5 KB of space on server
  3. Something to Marquee

How to use:

A great feature of WP-Marquee is its ease of update and intergration. There is no need to play with messy lines of code that leave you scratching your head. All you have to do is enter the special marquee code; go to the options panel and enter some text. There you have it, a marquee that is easy to change.

Installation/Usage:

  1. Download and unzip the WP-Marquee.zip
  2. Upload both wp-marquee.php and wp-marquee.jpg to your WordPress plugins folder.
  3. Go to your plugins page and ‘Activate’ the WP-Marquee plugin.
  4. Go to Options > WP-Marquee; select Show and enter desired text.
  5. Using an editor place the code < ? php wpmarqueewp(); ?>. (Remove Spaces)

Current Version’s:

Stable: 2.0 Requires WordPress 2.0+
Beta: 3.0 Requires WordPress 2.0+ (Coming Soon)

Download:

wp-marquee-2.0-stable.zip

V 2.0 Download Counter

Plugin News:

17 Oct 06: WP-Marquee version 2.0 released.
05 Jan 06: WP-Marquee version 1.3 released.
16 Dec 05: Version 1.3 will be release early January 06 or late December this year [05].
05 Dec 05: WP-Marquee public release.

To Do List:

  • Add hide/unhide button - Version 1.1
  • Be able to use HTML
  • Change scrolling options:
  • Height - Version 1.3
  • Width - Version 1.3
  • Scroll Style - Version 1.3
  • Direction - Version 1.3
  • ID - Version 2.0
  • Class - Version 2.0
  • Loop
  • Scroll Delay
  • Background Colour
  • Switch between Fader and Marquee

Known Bugs:

Not XHTML Compliant

Credits:

The original WP-Marquee’s code is based upon the code written by Martin Hipfinger for the ‘WP Get Internet Explorer’ plugin.

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  1. 1. December 5th, 2005, 11:53 am by Marzar Portfolio

    […] More information: http://www.marzar00.finditmax.com/index.php/wp-plugins/wp-marquee […]

  2. 2. December 5th, 2005, 12:52 pm by dave

    FYI, your license you released this under is invalid since this is a derivative work of the plugin you mention, which is released under the CC/GNU GPL

  3. 3. December 5th, 2005, 2:22 pm by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    Yeah I forgot to change that. Thanks for the heads up dave.

    Version 1.1 has that change.

  4. 4. December 9th, 2005, 6:14 pm by JOSEPH

    Nice plug-in indeed. It ads another inviting facet that encourages interest just that much more for visitors and readers of WP Blogs.

  5. 5. December 19th, 2005, 10:34 pm by tsaiid

    But the page’s layout seems to get broken with it ??

  6. 6. December 19th, 2005, 10:34 pm by tsaiid

    Sorry, I forgot to say. I use Firefox 1.5. Thx.

  7. 7. December 21st, 2005, 11:49 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    Yeah I’m a IE supporter so I never really try it with other browsers. I should and now that you have brought that to my attention I will check it with Firefox and see if i can fix that error.

    Edit: With the new version you can set the width and height. That should fix the errors. With Firefox it doesn’t understand widths very well. The next release will be out very soon. Its in the final stages of bug checking.

  8. 8. January 8th, 2006, 3:18 pm by Rocky

    How do you insert the code into the headermast, on the kubrick theme. Something like what you did on your page. Thanks

  9. 9. January 9th, 2006, 11:28 am by Todd/Imnot2bzy

    I get this when I goto Options. I am using WP 2.0

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wpmarqueewpoptionspage() (previously declared in /home/imnot2bz/publichtml/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php:37) in /home/imnot2bz/publichtml/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 151

  10. 10. January 9th, 2006, 11:29 am by Todd/Imnot2bzy

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wpmarqueewpoptionspage() (previously declared in /home/imnot2bz/publichtml/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php:37) in /home/imnot2bz/publichtml/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 151

    I get this when I goto Admin Options.

  11. 11. January 9th, 2006, 2:03 pm by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    Umm just a sec let me check.

  12. 12. January 9th, 2006, 2:09 pm by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    Just to check, have you activated it in your plugin menu?

    Otherwise I don’t know what is wrong. You could try to reinstall the plugin. I just did and it still works for me.

    If this doesn’t work, just post the settings you are using for wordpress and i will see if i can find the problem.

  13. 13. June 9th, 2006, 10:14 am by blade

    i try to find something at google.com and take it on your site…thanks

  14. 14. June 9th, 2006, 3:08 pm by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    No problem good luck

  15. 15. June 12th, 2006, 3:35 am by stratford

    Great job guys…

  16. 16. June 14th, 2006, 9:31 am by darkram

    What happen to the options page of WP-Marquee? Mine appears blank now in both Firefox and IE.

  17. 17. June 17th, 2006, 11:10 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    WP version 2.0.2 has a bug that stuffs around with my options page. WP version 2.0.3 fixes the issue.

  18. 18. June 20th, 2006, 2:09 pm by DarkRAM

    I updated to 2.0.3 but the same thing happens. I can’t see the options page while the plugin is active (page comes up blank). But when it is deactive I can see the options and change it. In either state the marquee doesnt display on the main page.

  19. 19. June 22nd, 2006, 9:09 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    Ok then I’ll have a better look for you.

  20. 20. June 23rd, 2006, 3:00 am by DarkRAM

    I did a little poking around. Since at one time your nifty plugin did work for me. And I think it might be a compatibility problem with EditorMonkey 2.5 which I recently upgraded to. When I deactivate EditorMonkey with WPMarquee active and then try to enter your options page I get the following error:
    “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wpmarqueewpoptionspage() (previously declared in /home/darkram4/publichtml/WordPress/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php:37) in /home/darkram4/publichtml/WordPress/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 151”

  21. 21. June 23rd, 2006, 7:56 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    Hmm interesting. Do you have the homepage for ‘EditorMonkey’? I will talk to the author and see if he/she can figure out an answer.

    Cheers

    Marzar

  22. 22. June 23rd, 2006, 8:33 am by DarkRAM

    Sure its,
    http://www.rajprasad.net/plugins/editormonkey/

    :)

  23. 23. June 28th, 2006, 9:31 pm by Steve

    Can this plug-in run a RSS feed? Also, I can run 2 or 3 of these at the same time on the same webpage, correct?

    Thanx for your help.

  24. 24. June 30th, 2006, 2:40 pm by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    This can’t run a RSS feed at the moment. I might look into it in the future. Im really busy with work ATM. You can only run one of them with multiple outputs.

    Hope that helps,
    Marzar

  25. 25. July 21st, 2006, 5:56 pm by thegn

    Great job guys… Thank for you work…

  26. 26. July 25th, 2006, 3:29 am by Darin

    Hello, your wp-marquee looks interesting. I am converting my site from Mambo to WP 2.03 (www.prephighlights.com/blog). I am having a problem getting to the wp-marquee’s options page.

    I have download and copied all wp-marquee file into it own directory in the plugins directory. I can activate the plugin , without any errors. When I go to Options->WP-Marquee, I am directed to the site’s home page. I’m missing something…
    I have used Firefox, IE6 & Safari with the same results.

    Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks.

  27. 27. July 25th, 2006, 7:49 pm by Anthony

    Great Plugin

    I have it working fine in Firefox but no luck in IE

    Any help is appreciated

    Thanks

  28. 28. August 23rd, 2006, 9:55 am by brian

    I get the following error, any ideas?

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wpmarqueewpoptionspage() (previously declared in /home/nvesols9/publichtml/theleague/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php:37) in /home/nvesols9/publichtml/theleague/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 151

  29. 29. September 1st, 2006, 5:51 am by Mark

    I’m getting the same error as Brian, above me. New WordPress update causing some problems perhaps?

  30. 30. September 1st, 2006, 8:01 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    G’day all,

    Thanks for the comments. ATM I am unable to release any updates which will fix the error you are having. I am however working on trying to find a solution.

    When a solution is found I will release version 2.0 which will also include some extra features.

    Thank you for using WP-Marquee,
    Marzar00

  31. 31. September 17th, 2006, 3:45 am by Petrolhead

    Hi all,

    Installed and activated WP-Marquee today, but am getting the following message on the Options page:

    Version Info.
    Your Version is
    Warning: wpmarqueewpoptionspage(http://www.marzar00.finditmax.com/wp-marquee1-3.html): failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /var/www/vhosts/wolfsspitzfreunde.de/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 61

    Fatal error: wpmarqueewpoptionspage(): Failed opening required ‘http://www.marzar00.finditmax.com/wp-marquee1-3.html’ (include_path=’.:’) in /var/www/vhosts/wolfsspitzfreunde.de/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 61

    Anyone else found this? Any ideas on a fix?

    Cheers

  32. 32. September 17th, 2006, 8:52 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    Interesting. It should work. The new versions won’t have this. It is just a little update checker.

    Marzar

  33. 33. September 17th, 2006, 9:28 am by Petrolhead

    Hmmmm, just reinstalled and activated, and the same thing’s happening…..

  34. 34. September 17th, 2006, 10:15 am by Cathy

    Have the same problem like Petrolhead……:-((((

  35. 35. September 17th, 2006, 11:19 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    Hmm… well I have just released the newest version so have a try at that and see how you go. If you don’t have any luck I have another go at fixing it.

    Marzar

  36. 36. September 18th, 2006, 1:21 am by Petrolhead

    Just installed and activated 2.0……. error message:

    Your Current Version = 2.0
    Most Current Stable Version =
    Warning: wpmarqueewpoptionspage(http://www.marzar00.finditmax.com/wp-marqueeversion.html): failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /var/www/vhosts/wolfsspitzfreunde.de/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 82

    Fatal error: wpmarqueewpoptionspage(): Failed opening required ‘http://www.marzar00.finditmax.com/wp-marqueeversion.html’ (include_path=’.:’) in /var/www/vhosts/wolfsspitzfreunde.de/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 82

    Am I doing something really stupid??!!!!

  37. 37. September 18th, 2006, 8:19 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    Ok, i’m not too sure why but you need to delete this from around line 80:

    [code] Most Current Stable Version = < ?php require(”http://www.marzar00.finditmax.com/wp-marqueeversion.html”); ?>[/code]

    That should fix any errors.

    Marzar

    EDIT: From the wp-marquee.php file

  38. 38. September 19th, 2006, 8:43 am by Petrolhead

    Thank you! Works like a dream!

    ;)

  39. 39. September 30th, 2006, 1:03 pm by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    @ William.

    G’day William the user who emailed me. I was unable to reply to your message as your email address bounced however here is the message i tryed to send to you:

    G’day William,

    This is an easy fix. Just open the wp-marquee.php file and find around =20
    line 80:

    Most Current Stable Version =3D < ?php =20
    require(?http://www.marzar00.finditmax.com/wp-marqueeversion.html?); ?>

    and delete that code. This will remove the update checker, but that is =20
    the only way to fix the error. I’am working on a new update checker =20
    for future releases.

  40. 40. November 3rd, 2006, 6:49 pm by peter

    I’d like my users to login as editor(not for administrator) to continue to change wp-marque’s option. How I move this to under edit’s menu from original otions page?

  41. 41. November 12th, 2006, 2:45 pm by kuttu

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wpmarqueewpoptionspage() (previously declared in /mounted-storage/home30c/sub002/sc26338-CEPQ/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php:37) in /mounted-storage/home30c/sub002/sc26338-CEPQ/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 207

    it sas line 207

  42. 42. November 13th, 2006, 11:50 pm by kuttu

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wpmarqueewpoptionspage() (previously declared in /mounted-storage/home30c/sub002/sc26338-CEPQ/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php:37) in /mounted-storage/home30c/sub002/sc26338-CEPQ/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 212

    this again

    1 more thing where to paste this

  43. 43. November 13th, 2006, 11:59 pm by kuttu

    iam not getting help here

  44. 44. December 4th, 2006, 4:20 pm by Passive-Incomes.Net Consultant

    Hey! What’s going on…

    I’ve been using this plugins without any problems…

    today my Marquee seems like working but I receive this error message while trying to update it with latest news today…

    “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wpmarqueewpoptionspage() in /home/sufian/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-marquee.php on line 37″

    please advise…

    thank you…

    p/s: saw this problem persist from last Nov 13th and not solved until today… what’s happening to the programmer?

  45. 45. January 12th, 2007, 5:13 pm by Abhijit

    Hi there,
    I used in the html source of the post and saved it. the marquee doesn’t show on the page.

    do i have to add Marquee class and Marquee ID ? What are they?

    I use WP ver 2.0

    Plz guide .
    thanks.

  46. 46. January 12th, 2007, 5:14 pm by Abhijit

    I used ?phpwpmarqueewp();? php syntex

  47. 47. January 13th, 2007, 2:08 am by Abhijit

    Sir,
    Plz reply to my query (thread #s 45, 46 above) soon.
    Thanks.

  48. 48. January 13th, 2007, 7:10 am by eqb3XLhWku

    Hi! Very nice site! Thanks you very much! xBLrrWf4iViANE

  49. 49. January 23rd, 2007, 6:13 am by DOC

    I installed your plugin and received this error.

    Your Current Version = 2.0
    Most Current Stable Version = PHP Fatal error: Failed opening required ‘http://www.marzar00.finditmax.com/wp-marqueeversion.html’ (include_path=’.;c:\php4\pear’) in E:\ensim\sitedata\Domains\galaxyfacts.com\ROOT\Inetpub\wwwroot\GFblog\wp-content\plugins\wp-marquee.php on line 82

    Can you tell me, what you I must do to correct the problem.

  50. 50. January 23rd, 2007, 6:32 am by DOC

    Sorry found problem. Fixed.

  51. 51. January 23rd, 2007, 7:31 am by DOC

    I am using the theme WP-Andreas01 1.5. I have installed your plug in and went to options and nothing is happening. I don’t see the marquee. Please explain what can I do to fix the problem.

    Thank You

  52. 52. February 18th, 2007, 4:04 am by Honney

    hi there. great plug-in! i installed it just fine. but where can i put these tags so my marquee would appear on my site?

    thanks.

  53. 53. February 18th, 2007, 4:10 am by Honney

    hi there. great plug-in! i installed it just fine. but where can i put these tags so my marquee would appear on my site? which editor are you talking about?

    1. Using an editor place the code .

    thanks.

  54. 54. February 18th, 2007, 8:54 pm by Petar

    This is so great, thank you VERY MUCh for this great Plugin! It works so perfect! And the Show/Hide-Function is REALLY useful, thanks a lot, buddy!

  55. 55. February 20th, 2007, 5:52 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    ALL PLEASE READ!

    Firstly my apologies for the lack of support and new releases. As many of you may know sometimes life can over whelmed hobbies. Thus I have been unable to even visit this site for quite some time. However I have returned and will begin immediately replying to those who have been having issues with my program.

    Once again sorry.
    Marzar

  56. 56. February 22nd, 2007, 8:34 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    @ Honney:

    You can use any editor you like to at the code to your webpage. Some editors I use are the standard windows Notepad or Adobe Macromedia Dreamweaver.

    @ DOC:

    Sorry I don’t understand the problem you are having. Is it that you are unable to see the settings page or are you unable to see the marquee on your site?

    @ kuttu & Passive-Incomes.Net Consultant

    I am still trying to figure out why that error appears. It seems to happen randomly. It may be a bit of my code which clashes with another plug-in’s. I am still working on it and will keep you both posted.
    Thanks
    Marzar

  57. 57. March 10th, 2007, 2:48 am by DOC

    I am unable to see the marquee on my site.

  58. 58. April 2nd, 2007, 2:56 pm by Wesley Mullings

    I’d like to be able to scroll a marquee up or down with a list of names. How do I do that? I’ve tried many combinations in the options page to get it right and I’ve had no error messages. Any suggestions?

    I’m using WP v2.1 and v2.0 of your program.

  59. 59. June 10th, 2007, 5:37 pm by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    @ Wesley Mullings:
    Hmm… Interesting. I thought that might happen. This bug is on my to-do list and once I get my new theme working I will fix WP-Marquee. Until then sorry unless you hard code it into the wp-marquee.php file I don’t think I can help.

    Marzar

  60. 60. June 10th, 2007, 10:12 pm by Wesley Mullings

    And how do I hard code moving up and down? Is it in the php file itself?

  61. 61. June 18th, 2007, 2:08 pm by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    @Wesley Mullings: Sorry for the delay. New version is almost ready. Anyways back to your q. Yes it is in the php file named: ‘wpmarquee.php’ which should be in your wp-content/plugins folder. However for the moment I recommend that you don’t worry about it as the new version will be XHTML Transitional compliant and will be able to automatically do that for you.

    Regards
    Marzar

  62. 62. June 27th, 2007, 4:19 am by Paolo

    Using Mac OSX , uploaded files wp-marquee.php and wp-marquee.jpg under my plugins directory - I’m using WP 2.1.3 - but when I open the options page and click on the WP-marquee menu’ I’m only able to get a blank page. I tried it using different browsers for MAC ( Safari - Firefox - Shiira - Opera ) but they all work the same. Any help ? thank you in advance.

  63. 63. June 27th, 2007, 1:57 pm by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    @ Paolo: Hmm interesting. As its runs on the server it shouldn’t be affected by your Operating System. The only thing I could recommend is to try reinstalling it.

  64. 64. June 27th, 2007, 9:00 pm by Paolo

    @ Marzar - Will try to reinstall it and I’ll let you know. Anyway I’ve tried it also on a windows machine using IE but always a blank page when I click on the WP-marquee menu.

  65. 65. June 29th, 2007, 6:45 am by Paolo

    @ Marzar - Reinstalled it but still the same, getting a blank page when clicking on the WP-marquee menu.Could be a problem caused by others plugins I’m using ? Any others suggestions ? Are the files to upload just two, .php and .jpg ? is it correct to upload themunder the plugins folder/directory or the must be uploaded under the widget one ?

    thanks and excuxe me in advance if I’m bothering u with a long list of questions

  66. 66. June 29th, 2007, 9:28 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    @ Paolo: No this is for support. Your questions are fine. Ok, lets see. Hmmm, It goes in the wp-content/plugins folder. Its not yet widgetised. What other plug-ins are you using? Really thats the only thing I can think of to be the issue. I will update my WP and release a stable WP-Marquee soon. It still won’t be XHTML compliant but closer.

    Marzar

  67. 67. July 9th, 2007, 1:17 am by Cori

    I click on WP-Marquee under options, all I get is a 404 not found page. What could be wrong here? I’ve reinstalled but to no avail. I’ve deactivated my other plugins but that didn’t help.

    Is the link supposed to be like this: “../wp-admin/wp-marquee.php”?

  68. 68. July 12th, 2007, 9:26 am by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    @ Cori: try this [Your URL]/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-marquee.php

  69. 69. September 28th, 2007, 4:55 am by Codi

    The option page appears to be wrong, and nothing there for setting options. How to solve it?

    tks.

  70. 70. October 3rd, 2007, 10:11 pm by Marzar· AUTHOR COMMENT

    @ Codi: WP-Marquee doesn’t work properly on the latest versions of WP. I don’t recommend using it any more. I am trying to create a much smaller XHTML compliant version, but my current work load hasn’t allowed me to do much on this.

    Marzar