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A high-performance floating news ticker for WordPress featuring smooth CSS animations, a modern React dashboard, and complete customization.
News Ticker – Floating Headlines & Sticky Alerts is a WordPress plugin that adds a sticky bar to your site for displaying breaking news, custom alerts, or latest posts. It features a modern admin dashboard built with React, allowing you to create a scrolling ticker without coding. The plugin is designed to be fast and responsive, adapting well to various devices.
This plugin is suitable for website owners who want to keep their visitors informed with dynamic content. It offers features like live preview, animation controls, and smart caching to enhance performance while maintaining a clean design.
Best for: This plugin suits website owners looking to display news and alerts effectively.
What it does well
Where it falls short
While it provides basic functionality for displaying news, the low user rating suggests potential issues. Consider the features carefully to see if it meets your needs.
A WP Life's own description of News Ticker, lightly tidied.
Need a fast News Ticker for your WordPress site? You found it. This plugin adds a clean sticky bar to your pages. It shows breaking news, custom alerts, or your latest posts easily. It is built to grab attention instantly without slowing down your website.
Adding a news header is very easy. You get a modern admin dashboard built with React. It lets you build a scrolling bar without writing any code. We made the setup process simple for everyone.
Pro Version Details – Floating News Headline Pro
Here is a quick breakdown of what you get in the free version versus what is unlocked in the Pro version.
Free Version Features:
* Live Dashboard Preview: See your design changes right away as you type.
* 3 Premium Themes: Corporate Classic, Dark Night, and Floating Pill.
* Content Sources: Pull headlines from your latest posts, manually select specific posts, or create custom alerts.
* Custom Labels: Change the prefix text easily (e.g., “Trending Now” or “Breaking News”).
* Animation Controls: Adjust scroll speed and control the gaps between your headlines.
* Infinite Looping: Text scrolls forever without awkward blank spaces.
* Pause Button: Users can pause the ticker to read comfortably.
* Display Placement: Automatically stick to the top of your site or use a shortcode anywhere.
* Scroll Behavior: Make the ticker stay fixed, or hide it cleanly when users scroll down.
* Visibility Rules: Show it everywhere, or restrict it to just the homepage.
* Smart Caching: Uses WordPress Transients to keep your site fast and save database queries.
* Vanilla JavaScript: High-performance code with zero jQuery dependencies.
* Responsive Layouts: Looks great and works flawlessly on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
Pro Version Exclusive Features:
* 17 Additional Premium Themes: Unlock advanced designs including Glassmorphism, Brutalist, Cyberpunk, Neumorphic, Retro, Terminal, Organic, and more!
* RSS Feeds & WooCommerce Integration: Pull scrolling news directly from external RSS feeds, or display WooCommerce products with “On Sale” filters and price tags.
* Advanced Filtering & Ordering: Filter your post headlines by specific Categories, Tags, and Authors. Sort them by Date, Title, or Custom Order.
* Multi-Alert Support: Add multiple custom alerts in a single ticker instead of just one.
* Custom Reviews Showcase: Manually create and display beautiful customer reviews with author names, photos, and 5-star ratings.
* Advanced Display Controls: Enable RTL (Right-to-Left) direction, add a “Close” button for users to dismiss the ticker, and inject Custom CSS.
* Scheduling: Set exact Start and End dates to run promotional tickers automatically during sales or events.
* Advanced Visibility Rules: Target specific pages, post types, or categories with multiple visibility conditions.
* Higher Limits: Display up to 50 headlines at once (compared to 20 in the free version).
* Metadata Controls: Hide author names and categories for a cleaner look.
* Analytics & Statistics: Track impressions and performance directly from a dedicated dashboard.
* Backup & Migration: Drag-and-drop JSON import/export dashboard to move your settings easily.
* Priority Support: Get direct assistance through our integrated Help Hub.
Your Floating Headlines should look great and match your brand. That is why we include three ready-to-use themes. You can pick a style with just one click.
Take full control of your breaking news content and animations. You can decide exactly what your visitors see.
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