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Live News
Generate a news ticker to communicate the latest updates, including financial news, weather warnings, election results, sports scores, and more.
The facts
- Active installs
- 2k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 11 May 2025
- Added
- May 2021
- Requires WP
- 5.0
- Tested up to
- WP 6.8.8
- Requires PHP
- 7.2
- Downloads
- 14,743
Our analysis
AI-assistedLive News – Responsive News Ticker is a WordPress plugin designed to display a fixed news ticker on your website. It allows you to communicate various types of news, including financial updates, weather warnings, and sports results. The content must be manually added by the website administrator or users with specific roles.
The plugin features a customizable ticker with options for styling, links, and image placements. It can be applied globally across your site or restricted to specific URLs. A Pro version offers additional functionalities such as automatic news generation from posts or RSS feeds.
Best for: This plugin suits news websites, blogs, or any site needing to display dynamic news updates.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Highly customizable with 46 options per news ticker
- ✓Supports links that can open in the same or new tabs
- ✓Can be applied globally or to specific URLs
- ✓Allows for the inclusion of images in sliding news
Where it falls short
- •Content must be added manually unless using the Pro version
- •Limited information available about the plugin's rating and performance
Verdict
Live News – Responsive News Ticker provides a straightforward solution for displaying news on WordPress sites. Its customizability makes it suitable for various types of content, although manual input may be a limitation for some users.
From the developer
DAEXT's own description of Live News, lightly tidied.
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 sliding news with advanced options of the news ticker
Features
This plugin is highly customizable and comes with 46 options per news ticker, 4 options per featured news, 9 options per sliding news, and 4 general options.
Customizable Style
All the elements displayed in the news ticker are customizable in terms of colors and typography. The images used to represent the open and close buttons and the clock background are replaceable with your custom images.
Links in the News Ticker
You can optionally apply links to the news and open them in the same tab or new tabs based on your selections.
Applicable Globally or Only on Specific URLs
The news ticker can be applied to all the pages of your website or only to specific URLs. In case of a setup with news tickers assigned to different URLs, you can create an unlimited number of news tickers.
Sliding News Images
You can place small images before and after the text of the sliding news. Use this feature to display the news provider’s logo, represent financial trends, categorize different types of communications, and more.
Tagged as
purpose
RSS, Feeds & Aggregation
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