WP Auto Scroller is a Wordpress plugin created and developed together with Angelo (Shor, the popular editor of geekissimo) patented by LGPL.

The plugin is conceived for those bloggers who want to make their blog more operational through Wordpress. Indeed, thanks to this plugin, it’ s possible to scroll the posts easily and rapidly, with a click. Just under the title of the post will appear a toolbar with particular features, such as: go to the last post, back to the first one etc…with a fast scrolling of the webpage.

An example of Auto Scroller:

You can entirely customize the plugin through your wordpress options panel. You can choose the page scrolling speed (slowing down or speeding up the scrolling time), remove or hide a button and modify the graphic through the style.css item to better adapt it to your blog.

Now you’ve just to follow our easy instructions to install the plugin and start scrolling your post…

WP Auto Scroller - versione: 0.3 - 08/10/2007

» Click here to download WP Auto Scroller.zip

How to install quickly the plugin:

Step 1 - Download:

Download here the plugin: » WP Auto Scroller.zip

Step 2 - Unzip:

The zip content:

Copy the zip content in your wordpress directory wp-contents/plugins. Now, there you’ll also find the file Wp- Auto-Scroller/.

Step 3 - Activation:

Go to Wordpress administration (i.e. http://your.blog/wp-admin), select “Plugin” from the Menu. You’ll find also Autoscroller, among the other items. Click on the button “Activate”.

Step 4a (for those allowed to edit the theme files) - Edit index.php:

Select the item “Presentation” from Administration, select in the submenu “Edit CSS”.
On the right are listed the theme files (Theme file ‘[Theme name]’), select “Template sheets” ( or the file wp-content/themes/[your_theme]/index.php)
from the list .

Step 4b (for those not allowed to edit the theme files) - Download and Edit index.php:

Enter your wordpress through ftp and download the file wp-content/themes/[you_theme]/index.php of your in use theme.

Step 5 - Plugin application:

Look for the code where the title is typed

<?php the_title(); ?>

Be careful because this line is repeated several times. Select the right one!.

    <div  class="post">
        <h2>
            <a  href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"  title="Permalink a <?php the_title();
            ?>"> <?php  the_title(); ?>
             
            <!—this  is the right line--> </a>
        </h2>
        <small><?php  the_time(’j F Y’) ?> </small>
        <div  class="entry">
            <?php  the_content(’Continue &raquo;’); ?>
        </div>
    ….
    ….
    ….

Then add the code:

<?php  scroller_post_id(); ?>

The result will be:

<?php  the_title(); ?> <?php scroller_post_id(); ?>

The title link is closed by the code </a> (or </a></h2>), then add the code

<?php scroller_links(); ?>

the result will be:

<div  class="post">
    <h2>
        <a  href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"  title="Permalink a <?php the_title();
            ?>">
              <?php  the_title(); ?>
            <?php scroller_post_id();  ?>
        </a>
    </h2>
    <?php  scroller_links(); ?>
    <small><?php  the_time(’j F Y’) ?> </small>
    <div  class="entry">
        <?php  the_content(’Continua &raquo;’); ?>
    </div>
    ….
    ….
    ….

Step 6 - Test the plugin:

Go to the homepage of your wordpress and test the links below the post title….

what about it ?

Step 7 - Customize the plugin:

Do you want to remove a link, speed up or slow down the scrolling speed, etc… go to the administration section ” Options” , you’ll find the submenu Autoscroller !

Do you want to change your plugin look ? It’s easy, customize the style sheet, you can find it in wp-contents/plugins/autoscroller/css/style.css