Simple Posts Ticker – Easy, Lightweight & Flexible Plugin

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 attributes to override the original settings. Please see plugin settings for detailed shortcode attributes.

Compatibility

• This plugin is fully compatible with WordPress Version 4.6 and beyond and also compatible with any WordPress theme.

Support

• Community support via the support forums at WordPress.org.

Contribute

• Active development of this plugin is handled on GitHub.
• Feel free to fork the project on GitHub and submit your contributions via pull request.

1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
2. Search for ‘Simple Posts Ticker’ and install it.
3. Or you can upload the simple-posts-ticker folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory manually.
4. Activate Simple Posts Ticker from your Plugins page.
5. After activation go to ‘Settings > Simple Posts Ticker’.
6. Configure settings according to your need and save changes.

1. 

   Ticker Demo

2. 

   Post Type Options

3. 

   Label Options

4. 

   Configure Ticker

5. 

   Customize Styles

6. 

   Others Settings

7. 

   Shortcode Info

8. 

   Tools

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1.1.6

Release Date: September 2, 2023

• Added: Input Sanitization.
• Updated: JS Libraries.
• Tested upto WordPress v6.3.

1.1.5

Release Date: March 23, 2020

• Added: WPML Compatibility.
• Tested upto WordPress v5.4.

1.1.4

Release Date: December 21, 2019

• Added: It is now possible to use multiple posts type in a single ticker.
• Added: Include & Exclude shortcode parameters to include and exclude posts respectively.
• Improved: Query Input using sanitization.

1.1.3

Release Date: December 20, 2019

• Added: New shortcode paarameters css_class & ticker_loop.
• Improved: The Marquee script loading mechanism.
• Improved: The Compatibility with RTL websites.
• Improved: Compatibility with WordPress jQuery.
• Fixed: Some duplicate CSS classes.
• Fixed: Plugin settings JS Warning in Browser Console.

1.1.2

Release Date: December 10, 2019

• Added: Option to set Post Info position.
• Improved: Marquee loading time.
• Improved: Post Query Mechanism.
• Improved: Admin UI.
• Improved: Custom CSS Output.
• Fixed: Wrong Tooltip text.
• Fixed: Minor Plugin settings JS problem.

1.1.1

Release Date: December 9, 2019

• NEW: Ticker Post Type.
• Improvement: Added option to enable/disable links.
• Improvement: Admin UI.
• Improvement: Uninstallation Process.

1.1.0

Release Date: December 8, 2019

IMPORTANT: Please reconfigure the plugin settings after successful plugin update.

• NEW: RTL Support.
• Improvement: This plugin will now use jQuery Marquee Plugin.
• Improvement: Admin Settings become more user friendly now.
• Improvement: It is now possible to Import or Export plugin settings.
• Fixed: Some minor CSS issues.
• Fixed: Some broken links.
• Fixed: Some untranslated strings.
• Removed: Some unnessary files.
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.3.
• Other minor improvements and fixes.

Other Versions

• View the Changelog file.