Live News - News Ticker Plugin For WordPress

Live News – News Ticker Plugin for WordPress

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Live News is a WordPress plugin impressed by the information tickers generally utilized by broadcast tv stations to show the newest updates, together with information, monetary data, climate alerts, election outcomes, sports activities scores, and extra. Note that this plugin updates the information in actual-time, permitting your customers to view the newest content material immediately with no need to refresh the web page.

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News Manually Added

You can use the Featured News menu and the Sliding News menu to manually create the information of your information tickers. This permits you to have a whole management over the content material of the displayed information and the utmost stage of customizability on the sliding information. Feel free to pick your favourite coloration for every sliding information and embody a customized picture earlier than and after every sliding information.

For instance the information of the Sliding News with Stock Market Data demo web page have been manually added, and the rise/lower icons have been uploaded and related to the sliding information.

News from WordPress

Use the WordPress posts because the supply to create information tickers primarily based on the titles, excerpts and permalinks of your posts (all of the posts or solely the posts of a selected class).

News from an RSS feed

With RSS because the supply of your information it is possible for you to to generate the information ticker primarily based on the knowledge included in your favourite RSS feed, which is likely to be your personal WordPress RSS feed, the RSS feed of a television channel, the RSS feed of a radio, and many others.

For instance within the BBC News demo the information ticker is generated primarily based on the information included on this RSS feed supplied by BBC News.

Before importing content material from an RSS feed please just be sure you are licensed to take action, the BBC News web page used within the plugin demo is a non-listed web page created solely for demonstration functions.

Customize Everything

This plugin comes with 56 customizable choices per information ticker, 4 choices per featured information, 9 choices per sliding information and three basic choices.

To provide you with an thought of the extent of customizability think about that it is possible for you to to:

Apply the information ticker to your complete web site or to a selected URL
Temporarily allow or disable every information ticker
Retrieve the information out of your favourite supply (Manually Added, WordPress posts, RSS feed)
Decide which class of posts ought to be thought-about (in case the WordPress posts are the supply)
Display the time primarily based on the server time or on the person time, and likewise to assign a optimistic or adverse offset
Use the information ticker with LTR languages or additionally with RTL languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, and many others.
Enable or disable the information ticker with cellular gadgets
Display or disguise the featured information space (the massive crimson space on prime of the sliding information)
Display the information ticker in open or closed standing
Enable or disable the hyperlinks related to the featured information title and with the sliding information
Open the hyperlinks in the identical tab or in new tabs
Show or disguise the clock
Set the replace time of the clock
Set the variety of sliding information accessible for every cycle of reports
Set the pace of the sliding information
Determine the variety of cycles carried out by the information ticker with out updating the information
Set the transient expiration in seconds
Set the utmost size of the featured information title
Set the utmost size of the featured information excerpt
Set the utmost size of the sliding information
Set the font measurement of the featured information title
Set the font measurement of the featured information excerpt
Set the font measurement of the sliding information
Set the font measurement of the textual content displayed within the clock
Set the margin between the sliding information
Set the padding of the sliding information
Enter a customized font household that shall be used for all of the textual components of the information ticker
Load a customized font household from Google Fonts
Set the featured information title coloration
Set the featured information title coloration in hover state
Set the featured information excerpt coloration
Set the sliding information coloration (for all of the sliding information of a information ticker or additionally for particular sliding information if wanted)
Set the sliding information coloration in hover state
(for all of the sliding information of a information ticker or additionally for particular sliding information if wanted)
Set the background coloration of every sliding information
Upload and select a picture displayed on the left of the sliding information
Upload and select a picture displayed on the proper of the sliding information
Set the colour of the textual content displayed within the clock
Set the background coloration of the featured information space
Set the background coloration opacity of the featured information space
Set the background coloration of the sliding information space
Set the background coloration opacity of the sliding information space
Upload and select a customized picture for the open button
Upload and select a customized picture for the shut button
Upload and select a customized picture for the background of the clock

Highly Optimized

With the Live News plugin you’re free to create a vast variety of information tickers in web sites hosted in shared servers, VPS or devoted servers with none challenge. This plugin makes use of the WordPress Transients API, so it is possible for you to to restrict (primarily based in your wants) the variety of queries carried out in your database to retrieve the information and the variety of HTTP requests despatched to the RSS sources.

Controlling the variety of requests despatched to the supplier of your information is essential as a result of this lets you keep away from issues like having an RSS feed which refuses to answer the server IP.

Multisite Ready

This plugin can be utilized on a WordPress Network, and helps each a Network Activation (the plugin shall be activated on all of the websites of your WordPress Network in a single step) and a Single Site Activation (your plugin shall be manually activated on single websites of the community).

Multilanguage Ready

Live News comes by default in English, if you wish to translate the plugin in one other language merely create a translation file or manually translate it with a multilanguage plugin.

Documentation

The official plugin documentation, together with references to the video tutorials and the FAQs, is accessible within the documentation page printed on our web site.

Yearly Plans

You can alternatively buy yearly plans for 1, 5, or 25 web sites. For extra data, please see the Live News Pricing Section on our portal.

Credits

This plugin makes use of the next sources:

Select2 licensed below the MIT License
Mobile Detect licensed below the MIT License
The json2xml JavaScript operate (accessible within the reside-information/public/property/js/basic.js file) is licensed below the Creative Commons GNU LGPL License

For every library you will discover the precise copy of the license contained in the folder used to retailer the library information. The license data of the json2xml JavaScript operate can be found simply above the operate code.

Updates

30.10.2024 - v2.21
  - Fixed bug with the plugin replace checker
30.10.2024 - v2.20
  - Minor bug repair
29.10.2024 - v2.19
  - Added help for seamless updates
  - Major again-finish UI replace
  - Refactoring
    - Due to the current requirement for a subscription to entry the endpoints wanted for studying tweets, and the ensuing incapability to check these endpoints successfully, X/Twitter has been eliminated as an information supply.
07.12.2023 - v2.18
  - Restored the performance of the "Hide Featured News" possibility
21.10.2023 - v2.17
  - The again-finish menus at the moment are optimized for RTL languages
  - Refactoring
05.08.2022 - v2.16
  - The "Import", "Export", and "Maintenance" menus have been added
  - Minor again-finish enhancements
  - New entry management choices have been added
16.05.2022 - v2.15
  - Added .pot file
10.03.2021 - v2.14
  - The "Target URL" possibility now helps a number of URLs
  - The "Target URL Mode" possibility has been added
  - The open/shut button is now included within the information ticker when the featured information are usually not displayed
  - Minor again-finish enhancements
20.08.2020 - v2.11
  - Removed deprecated jQuery strategies
19.12.2019 - v2.10
  - Fixed CSS points attributable to the adjustments utilized in WordPress 5.3
31.07.2018 - v2.09
  - Improved the way in which transients are saved and parsed
29.07.2018 - v2.08
  - The "Twitter" supply now helps 280 characters for the tweets
  - A customized time format can now be specified by utilizing the "Clock Format" possibility of the information ticker
  - Other minor enhancements
23.11.2017 - v2.05
  - Fixed a coloration picker type challenge attributable to type adjustments carried out in WordPress 4.9
  - The font household stack of WordPress is now used
  - Improved again-finish type and functionalities
  - Added a search area on the Tickers, Featured News and Sliding News menus
  - Added the "Detect URL Mode" possibility
  - The "Sliding News Font Size" possibility has now the right CSS specificity to be correctly utilized within the entrance-finish
  - Updated the default values of the "Cached Cycles" (from 0 to five) and "Transient Expiration" (from 0 to 60) ticker parameters
  - Other minor enhancements
16.12.2016 - v2.04
  - The plugin has been rewritten with an OOP strategy
  - Backend interface revamp
  - It's now attainable to create a number of information tickers
  - The variety of AJAX requests required to retrieve the information ticker knowledge has been diminished from 3 to 1
  - The information ticker knowledge can now be saved utilizing the Transient API
  - It's now attainable to set the variety of cycles carried out by the information ticker with out updating the information
  - The information can now be retrieved from Twitter
  - Images can now be added earlier than and after every sliding information
  - The Mobile Detect class has been up to date
  - Multilanguage help has been added
  - Support for WordPress multisite
  - Many different choices have been added and the general variety of choices has been elevated from 21 (v1.47) to 72 (v2.04)
14.03.2015 - v1.47
  - The Mobile Detect class has been up to date
16.09.2014 - v1.46
  - The AJAX requests now use the WordPress native actions
  - Added an edit button within the Featured News menu and within the Sliding News menu
25.03.2014 - v1.45
  - Renamed the Mobile Detect class to keep away from conflicts with different plugins that make use of the identical class
13.09.2013
  - Initial launch