SplatDev.Umbraco.Plugins.NewsTicker 2.3.3

SplatDev.Umbraco.Plugins.NewsTicker

A scrolling news ticker plugin for Umbraco 13 (net8.0) and Umbraco 17 (net10.0).

Compatibility

Installation

dotnet add package SplatDev.Umbraco.Plugins.NewsTicker

Features

• Store ticker items in the database with scheduling (StartsAt / EndsAt)
• Configurable speed, direction (left/right), background colour, and text colour
• REST API for managing items from the backoffice
• View component for embedding the ticker in Razor views
• Umbraco 17 backoffice dashboard (Lit 3 element)
• Umbraco 13 backoffice dashboard (AngularJS controller)

Configuration

Add to appsettings.json:

{
  "UmbracoCms": {
    "NewsTicker": {
      "Speed": 50,
      "Direction": "left",
      "BackgroundColor": "#1a1a1a",
      "TextColor": "#ffffff"
    }
  }
}

Embedding the Ticker

In any Razor view or layout:

@await Component.InvokeAsync("NewsTicker")

Database

The plugin creates a NewsTickerItems table via EF Core. Run migrations or call context.Database.EnsureCreated() during startup.

API Endpoints

Changelog

2.3.3 — 2026-08-26

Fixes a duplicate registration on sites that still have a physical App_Plugins folder for this plugin, left behind by an older release that copied content into the site. Umbraco registered those extensions twice - once from its own scan of the folder, once from this package's embedded manifest - and logged "Extension with alias ... is already registered". The embedded manifest now yields to the physical copy.

2.3.2 — 2026-08-24

Removes a dashboard screenshot that showed an error toast. It was captured against a site where this plugin's API was unreachable, so it advertised a broken dashboard. No screenshot is better than a misleading one; a replacement will be taken against a working install.

2.3.1 — 2026-08-24

Package metadata only: the listing now carries an icon and search tags, and the project and repository links point at the organisation that actually hosts this code. No code changes.

2.3.0 — 2026-08-23

The Razor view behind @await Component.InvokeAsync(...) is now compiled into the package. It was previously carried as a loose file that nothing packed, so the component threw "view not found" on every install and the front-end usage shown in this README could not have worked.

The view also still referenced the package's pre-rename namespace, so it would not have compiled even had it shipped. That is fixed, and the view is now built with the project — a broken view fails the build instead of failing a visitor's request.

2.2.3 — 2026-08-21

• A failed request now says so in the dashboard. Previously the dashboard kept its previous (usually empty) state, so a refused or failed call looked identical to having no data.

2.2.2 — 2026-08-21

• Dashboard now sends the backoffice token with its API calls. On Umbraco 17 those calls were arriving unauthenticated and coming back 401, which the dashboard rendered as an empty state rather than an error.
• A failed request now raises a notification instead of leaving the dashboard looking like there is simply no data.
• The plugin's tables are created on startup. They were never created before, so anything touching them failed on a fresh install.
• Runs on SQLite as well as SQL Server. It previously assumed SQL Server and failed with "Keyword not supported: 'cache'" on the database Umbraco's installer offers by default.

License

MIT © SplatDev