As of April 2026, Live News is a WordPress live plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Downloads are down 24% this week. Top alternative: SearchWP Live Ajax Search.
0/5Rating
3.0K+active installs
13K+total downloads
5 yearssince 2021
Overview
The Live News Lite plugin generates a fixed news ticker that you can use to communicate the latest news, financial news, weather warnings, election results, sports results, etc.
By default, the news ticker includes a Featured News section in red and a Sliding News in black, and it’s similar to the ones used by networks like Fox News, CNN, Sky News, etc.
In terms of content, the news should be manually added by the website administrator or by users that belong to other configured roles.
Pro Version
The Pro Version of this plugin, allows you to:
- Automatically generate news based on the posts
- Automatically generate the news based on a specified RSS feed (E.g., Your own RSS feed, the RSS feed of a tv channel, the RSS feed of a radio station.)
- Control the speed and the delay of the slid…
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Download Trends
Today: 4Yesterday: 2This week: 38Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.10
90.3%
v1.09
6.2%
v1.08
3.4%
Top Alternatives to Live News – Responsive News Ticker
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.10
May 11, 2025
- Fixed PHP notice caused by early use of translation functions.
- Fixed JavaScript deprecation notices for back-end functionality.
- Resolved CSS style issue.
Contributors
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