A versatile horizontal news ticker using liScroll.js
As of April 2026, RP News Ticker is a WordPress news plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 12K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: XML Sitemap & Google News.
The plugin creates a shortcode to be used in a widget to display a nice horizontal newsticker which can be placed in a sidebar.
Since 0.7: one can use a php tag or shortcode to insert it in the theme template, widgets or posts, all tuning moved to Settings
Based upon liScroll.js by Gian Carlo Mingati.
Tested in WordPress 3.0+ only, expected to be compatible from 2.6+.
Demo: http://chernivtsi.ws (in Ukrainian).
1. A number of latest post can be tuned in settings
2. Categories can be defined with a standard syntax, see Installation for details
3. Choose date format for category posts
4. Tune css from settings
5. Insert php tag into theme template files
6. Ukrainian and Russian localization
| WordPress | 2.6+ requiredTested up to 3.2.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Moved settings from widget to options; added shortcode support; added theme tag support; added Russian localization.
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