OXP Breaking News Ticker
OXP Breaking News Ticker builds scrolling news bars for WordPress: a breaking news strip across the header, a quieter marquee of latest posts in the footer, whatever the site needs. You set each one up in the admin and place it with the Gutenberg block or a shortcode. Headlines are typed by hand or
About this tool.
OXP Breaking News Ticker builds scrolling news bars for WordPress: a breaking news strip across the header, a quieter marquee of latest posts in the footer, whatever the site needs. You set each one up in the admin and place it with the Gutenberg block or a shortcode.
Headlines are typed by hand or pulled from your own posts. Pick a post type, filter it by taxonomy, term or keyword, and load the matches in one click. They are saved as a snapshot, so the ticker runs no database queries when somebody visits.
Every ticker is a saved preset: edit it once and every page it appears on follows. Switch any of them on or off from the list with a single click, no page reload and no code.
Features
Content
- Add news items manually (title + URL + optional date) and reorder them with drag and drop.
- Optional display date per item: items loaded from posts capture their publication date, manual items take the date you pick. Choose where it sits (before or after the headline), how it reads (site format, short, day and month, long, relative, or your own pattern), and give it its own typography and opacity.
- Dynamic items (Premium): add a WP Query as an item and it stays live. Instead of freezing the posts it finds, the ticker stores the search and runs it again on every render, so a new post appears on its own and a deleted one goes. Pick the post type, filter by taxonomy, terms or keyword, choose how many and in what order. It sits wherever you drag it, between your hand-written headlines, and each result brings its own title, link and publication date. The editor shows how many posts the query matches right now, and says so plainly when the answer is none.
- Dynamic items stay fresh behind a page cache. A cached page keeps the headlines it was built with; the ticker notices when the page it is on is not fresh and quietly fetches the current ones. No cache plugin integration and nothing to configure.
- Schedule any item (Premium): a clock on the item row opens “from” and “until”, both optional, both inclusive, and each with an optional time of day. A start alone shows the item from then on, an end alone shows it until then. A scheduled item adds one thin line to its row naming the state (running, upcoming, past) and the dates, in traffic-light colour.
- “Load from posts” snapshot picker: browse any post type, filter by taxonomy and terms, search by keyword, and load matching posts as items in one click. Each post is captured as a snapshot, so there are no database queries at render time and no performance cost for your visitors.
