Live News v2.18 – Real Time News Ticker Plugin

Live News GPL Plugin

Live News is a WordPress plugin inspired by the news tickers used by broadcast television stations to communicate the latest news, financial news, weather warnings, election results, sports results etc.

This plugin updates the news with jQuery and AJAX in real-time and your users will be able to see your latest news without updating the page.

News Manually Added

You can use the Featured News menu and the Sliding News menu to manually create the news of your news tickers. This allows you to have complete control over the content of the displayed news and the maximum level of customizability on the sliding news. Feel free to select your favorite color for each sliding news and include a custom image before and after each sliding news.

For example, the news of the Sliding News with Stock Market Data demo page has been manually added, and the increase/decrease icons have been uploaded and associated with the sliding news.

News from WordPress

Use the WordPress posts as the source to create news tickers based on the titles, excerpts and permalinks of your posts (all the posts or only the posts of a specific category).

News from an RSS feed

With RSS as the source of your news you will be able to generate the news ticker based on the information included in your favorite RSS feed, which might be your own WordPress RSS feed, the RSS feed of a tv channel, the RSS feed of a radio, etc.

For example in the BBC News demo, the news ticker is generated based on the news included in this RSS feed provided by BBC News.

Before importing content from an RSS feed please make sure that you are authorized to do so, the BBC News page used in the plugin demo is a non-indexed page created only for demonstration purposes.

News from Twitter

Use Twitter as the source of your news so you can show the latest tweets of your Twitter account to your visitors and increase the number of your follower.

Alternatively, you can also decide to display the tweets of other accounts, for example in the Sliding News from Pope Francis page the news ticker retrieves the news from the @Pontifex account.

Customize Everything

This plugin comes with 56 customizable options per news ticker, 4 options per featured news, 9 options per sliding news and 3 general options.

To give you an idea of the level of customizability consider that you will be able to:

• Apply the news ticker to the entire website or to a specific URL
• Temporarily enable or disable each news ticker
• Retrieve the news from your favorite source (Manually Added, WordPress posts, RSS feed, Twitter)
• Decide which category of posts should be considered (in case the WordPress posts are the source)
• Enter the username of the user for which you want to retrieve the tweets (in case Twitter is the source)