Simple Posts Ticker – Easy, Lightweight & Flexible
The Simple Posts Ticker plugin is a small tool that shows your most recent posts in a marquee style.
4.5(22 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, Simple Posts Ticker is a WordPress marquee plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 22 reviews. It has been downloaded 23K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 6% this week. Top alternative: Marquee Running Text.
4.5/522 reviews
2.0K+active installs
23K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
The Simple Posts Ticker plugin brings a lightweight, flexible and easy way to configure news ticker plugin to WordPress website. This plugin adds scrolling horizontal posts tickers to your site. It can be use as shortcode or PHP codes. You can customize every setting of this plugin in the admin dashboard.
Advantages of this plugin
- Lightweight jQuery.
- CSS Ticker Animation.
- Easy to configuration.
- Multi Post Support.
- Full RTL Support.
- Custom Post Types support.
- Select post by date/modified date or randomly.
- Select posts by their category.
- Option to show a label before ticker.
- Option to customize all and everything.
- Supports localization.
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Shortcode instructions
Using default settings: [spt-posts-ticker]
You can use some attr…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
simple and the job wonderfully
by KJA4U·2 years ago
So far, It does the job without any hassles. I wish it included in the settings a section to add a separation icon between scrolling posts titles.
Easy and Helpful
by vincent0688·3 years ago
This plugin is easy to use and full of all functions all I need.
It’s really helpful to me. Thanks!!
Great work exactly what I need.
by cranso·5 years ago
I have try a lot of plugins, but always not good enough, only this pluging is amazing, is has all options I need. Thanks for this smallweight Plugin and your great work.I Send you a coffee.
- This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by cranso.
It works great!
by skid2964·5 years ago
Easy and everything works as expected!
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by taradevv·5 years ago
Very nice, easy and simple to use.
Download Trends
Today: 4Yesterday: 4This week: 37Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.3.8 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
99.3%
v1.0
0.7%
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Changelog
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1.1.6
Release Date: September 2, 2023
- Added: Input Sanitization.
- Updated: JS Libraries.
- Tested upto WordPress v6.3.
Contributors
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