Creates a Widget to display a News Ticker of posts or whatever custom post type you have. Includes 'Next', 'Prev' buttons.
As of April 2026, Simple News Ticker is a WordPress news plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: XML Sitemap & Google News.
This plugin adds a widget to your WordPress site called Simple News Ticker, publish this widget wherever needed and set its options, the plugin uses Flexslider Jquery plugin to create a slider of Posts(only titles), you can navigate throught the posts, the options are:
–Title: Title of the widget
–Categories to show, use slugs separated by commas: Which categories to include in the loop, they can be custom post types categories
–Categories to hide, use ids separated by commas: The categories to hide, here you need to use id’s
–Offset, number: Write the number for offset in the loop, this means the number of post you need to jump from beginning.
–Number of posts to show: Posts per page
–Post Type to use: This field will list all available post type…
| WordPress | 4.3+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
First Version of plugin
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