Modern News Ticker for WordPress 1.9.0
Description
Modern News Ticker for WordPress is a lightweight plugin that turns posts and feed content into stylish, scrolling headlines. It helps you keep important updates visible without disrupting your layout, ideal for sites that publish news, announcements, or real-time updates. You can build a news bar using manual items, existing WordPress posts, or RSS/JSON feeds. With built-in effects and layouts, it’s designed to look consistent across WordPress themes while staying fast.
The plugin focuses on easy configuration, with multiple themes, effects, and layout options, plus auto-refresh for dynamic content. It also includes responsive behavior and RTL support, so the ticker can fit a wider range of site designs and audiences.
Main Features
- 15 ticker themes — Choose from multiple visual styles for the news bar.
- 4 headline effects — Use scroll, fade, type, or slide animations.
- 4 layout options — Configure combinations such as news items, front label, and control buttons.
- Manual items and WP posts — Add headlines directly or pull items from WordPress posts.
- RSS and JSON feed support — Load updates from external sources in common feed formats.
- Auto-refresh feeds — Refresh feed-based tickers on a schedule for up-to-date content.
- 30+ behavior settings — Fine-tune content, effects, feeds, and other ticker behaviors.
- 3 autoplay/refresh methods — Control how autoplay and feed refresh timing work together.
- Responsive design and RTL — Display properly on different devices and support right-to-left layouts.
Benefits
- More visible updates — Keeps announcements and news headlines in view for better attention and UX.
- Engaging presentation — Effects and themes improve readability and make changes feel intentional.
- Fewer manual updates — Using WP posts or RSS/JSON feeds reduces ongoing effort.
- Fresh, automated content — Auto-refresh helps maintain current information without repeated edits.
- Site-wide compatibility — Responsive and RTL support helps the ticker fit different site layouts.
Who is it suitable for?
- News sites and blogs publishing frequent updates
- Corporate or announcement pages on WordPress
- Websites that need a dynamic top-of-page ticker
- Content teams pulling updates from RSS or JSON sources
- Agencies building WordPress client sites with configurable modules
- Websites using RTL layouts