Breaking news
The ticker across the top of your site: what goes on it, for how long, and how to take it off.
How the ticker works#
- The ticker shows the five newest breaking stories, and disappears when nothing is breaking.
- A story stays on it for 24 hours after it goes live, unless you choose another end time.
- Each language has its own ticker, with the stories in that language.
The Breaking news screen starts with On your website now — the ticker exactly as readers see it, with a language picker and Open website. Below are the tabs On the ticker, Scheduled, Drafts, Earlier and All.
Post breaking news#
- Press Post breaking news.
- Choose the Language and write the Headline — the counter beside it aims for 100 characters, because a ticker line should be short.
- Write the Details: a few lines are enough, and a story needs some text to go live. Pick a Category, and tick Also feature on the homepage if it should lead the homepage too.
- Choose Goes live now or Schedule the start.
- Under Off the ticker, keep Auto — 24 h after it goes live or Pick an end time….
- Press Publish now (or Schedule).
Need more than a few lines? Open full editor turns it into a normal story with pictures, and keeps it on the ticker.
Press Send for review and an editor puts it live (review is on the Pro plan; on other plans, press Save draft and tell an editor).
A story that's already published#
Press Add a published story and pick it: it goes on the ticker straight away. Only stories published in the last 24 hours can be added. You can also switch on Breaking news in any story's editor.
Taking it off#
In the story's ⋯ menu, Take off the ticker removes it from the ticker. The story itself stays published. Archive takes the story off the site as well.
Delete removes it completely, once it's no longer published.
How it looks#
The ticker's colour and speed, and whether it shows at all, are set in Appearance → Header & footer.