As of April 2026, Floating News Headline is a WordPress marquee plugin with 100 active installations and a 3/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 17K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Marquee Running Text.
3/52 reviews
100active installs
17K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
Floating News Headline is a professional-grade, lightweight news ticker plugin designed for speed, beauty, and zero theme conflicts. Display breaking news, latest posts, hand-picked headlines, or custom alerts in a sleek, non-intrusive floating bar on your WordPress site.
Built from the ground up with a modern React admin dashboard and GPU-accelerated BEM-CSS architecture, this plugin delivers silky-smooth scrolling animations without slowing down your website.
🚀 Why Choose Floating News Headline?
Unlike other ticker plugins that rely on heavy jQuery dependencies and outdated markup, Floating News Headline uses:
- Vanilla JavaScript on the frontend — zero jQuery dependency
- CSS
transform: translateX()animations — GPU-accelerated for 60fps scrolling - BEM (Block-Element-Modifier) CSS — zero…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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Changelog
1.3.2 — 2026-04-01
- New: Dedicated “Shortcode” documentation tab in the admin dashboard for easier manual placement reference.
- Fix: Synchronized Dashboard Preview height and theme icons (Corporate Classic document icon) with the live site.
- Fix: Synchronized scroll speed logic between the admin preview and the frontend for a matching experience.
- Enhancement: Decoupled shortcode visibility from site-wide targeting rules — shortcodes now work on any page regardless of “Display On” settings.
Contributors
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