Description
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.
Clock
The news ticker has an optional clock that displays the time in a custom format defined with Moment.js token.
In the plugin options, you can also decide if you want to display the server time, the user time, if you want to apply a time offset, and the frequency of the time updates.
Mobile Device Detection
The plugin uses the Mobile Detect Js library to detect the device of the user. The resulting value is used to display or hide the news ticker or specific news ticker elements based on the device type. This behavior is defined by the administrator in the news ticker settings.
Cached Cycled
The news ticker updates the news with AJAX requests at the end of each news cycle. With the Cached Cycled option, you can define the number of cycles per AJAX request.
WordPress Transients API
You can optionally store the news ticker data in a WordPress transient and limit the number of queries used to retrieve the news.
Support for RTL Layouts
We have included the Enable RTL Layout to allow the use of the plugin in RTL websites.
Suitable for Digital Signage Systems
You can use the plugin locally in a browser-based digital signage system.
Advanced Options
Advanced options to further customize the news ticker are also available:
- The Sliding News Margin option to define the margin between the sliding news
- The Sliding News Padding option determines the padding on the left and the right of each sliding news. This option is also helpful to control the distance between the sliding news text and the optional images.
- Control the opacity of the news ticker with the Featured News Background Color Opacity and the Sliding News Background Color Opacity options
- And more.
Documentation
For more information on how to implement this plugin, please see the plugin documentation published on our website.
Credits
This plugin makes use of the following resources:
- Mobile Detect JS licensed under the MIT License
- Moment.js licensed under the MIT License
- Chosen licensed under the MIT License
Screenshots
Tickers menu. 
Tickers menu in edit mode. 
The “Placement” section of the Tickers menu. 
The “Layout” section of the Tickers menu. 
The “Style” section of the Tickers menu. 
The “Performance” and “Advanced” sections of the Tickers menu. 
Featured News menu. 
Featured News menu in edit mode. 
Sliding News menu. 
Sliding News menu in edit mode. 
Tools menu. 
Maintenance menu. 
Options menu. 
A news ticker is used to display the latest news on the front end of a WordPress site. 
A news ticker is used to display financial data on the front end of a WordPress site. 
A news ticker is used to display sports results on the front end of a WordPress site.
Installation
Installation (Single Site)
With this procedure you will be able to install the Live News Lite plugin on your WordPress website:
- Visit the Plugins -> Add New menu
- Click on the Upload Plugin button and select the zip file you just downloaded
- Click on Install Now
- Click on Activate Plugin
Installation (Multisite)
This plugin supports both a Network Activation (the plugin will be activated on all the sites of your WordPress Network) and a Single Site Activation in a WordPress Network environment (your plugin will be activated on a single site of the network).
With this procedure you will be able to perform a Network Activation:
- Visit the Plugins -> Add New menu
- Click on the Upload Plugin button and select the zip file you just downloaded
- Click on Install Now
- Click on Network Activate
With this procedure you will be able to perform a Single Site Activation in a WordPress Network environment:
- Visit the specific site of the WordPress Network where you want to install the plugin
- Visit the Plugins menu
- Click on the Activate button (just below the name of the plugin)
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Contributors & Developers
“Live News – Responsive News Ticker” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.09
October 30, 2024
- Major back-end UI update.
- Refactoring.
- Tools menu added.
- Maintenance menu added.
- Two new plugin options have been added.
1.08
April 8, 2024
- Fixed a bug (started with WordPress version 6.5) that prevented the creation of the plugin database tables and the initialization of the plugin options during the plugin activation.
1.07
October 24, 2023
- Nonce fields have been added to the “Tickers”, “Featured News”, and “Sliding News” menus.
- Fixed PHP warnings.
- General refactoring. The phpcs “WordPress-Core” ruleset has been partially applied to the plugin code.
1.06
August 29, 2023
- Minor back-end CSS fixes.
- Menu footer links added.
1.05
August 03, 2022
- The “Cached Cycles” ticker option is now properly used in the front-end scripts. This change solves a bug that prevented the news from being updated at the end of the cycles.
- The translation functions text domain now matches the plugin slug.
- The “Export to Pro” menu has been added.
- The links to the Pro version have been updated with the new Pro version page.
- Minor back-end improvements.
1.03
March 19, 2022
- Plugin renamed to “Live News”.
- Improved validation and escaping in the back-end menus.
1.02
May 6, 2021
- Initial release.