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Floating News Headline

Premium, modern, and highly customizable floating news ticker for WordPress — rebuilt with a React dashboard, GPU-accelerated CSS animations, and BEM …

By A WP Life·Marquee·Free
3(2 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 4 days ago
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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Unlike other ticker plugins that rely on heavy jQuery dependencies and outdated markup, Floating News Headline uses: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…
Read full description on WordPress.org

Ratings & Reviews

32 reviews
5 ★
1
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
1

Compatibility

WordPress5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP5.6+ 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.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

zishzishmohammadhanifmohammadhanifFARAZFRANKFARAZFRANKPathhanPathhanSharik KhanSharik KhanA WP LifeA WP LifeAlexanderAlexanderfkfaisalkhan007fkfaisalkhan007
Plugin Info
Version
1.3.2
Last Updated
Apr 1, 2026
WP Requires
5.8+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
5.6+
Active Installs
100
Downloads
17K+
Added
Feb 4, 2017
Business
Free

Tags

marqueenews tickerfloating barbreaking newsnews headline

Developer

A
A WP Life
32 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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