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)
- Automatically remove links, hashtags, and usernames from the tweets (in case Twitter is the source)
- Display the time based on the server time or on the user time, and also assign a positive or negative offset
- Use the news ticker with LTR languages or also with RTL languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, etc.
- Enable or disable the news ticker with mobile devices
- Display or hide the featured news area (the big red area on top of the sliding news)
- Display the news ticker in open or closed status
- Enable or disable the links associated with the featured news title and with the sliding news
- Open the links in the same tab or in new tabs
- Show or hide the clock
- Set the update time of the clock
- Set the number of sliding news available for each cycle of news
- Set the speed of the sliding news
- Determine the number of cycles performed by the news ticker without updating the news
- Set the transient expiration in seconds
- Set the maximum length of the featured news title
- Set the maximum length of the featured news excerpt
- Set the maximum length of the sliding news
- Set the font size of the featured news title
- Set the font size of the featured news excerpt
- Set the font size of the sliding news
- Set the font size of the text displayed in the clock
- Set the margin between the sliding news
- Set the padding of the sliding news
- Enter a custom font family that will be used for all the textual elements of the news ticker
- Load a custom font family from Google Fonts
- Set the featured news title color
- Set the featured news title color in hover state
- Set the featured news excerpt color
- Set the sliding news color (for all the sliding news of a news ticker or also for specific sliding news if needed)
- Set the sliding news color in hover state (for all the sliding news of a news ticker or also for specific sliding news if needed)
- Set the background color of each sliding news
- Upload and choose an image displayed on the left of the sliding news
- Upload and choose an image displayed on the right of the sliding news
- Set the color of the text displayed in the clock
- Set the background color of the featured news area
- Set the background color opacity of the featured news area
- Set the background color of the sliding news area
- Set the background color opacity of the sliding news area
- Upload and choose a custom image for the open button
- Upload and choose a custom image for the close button
- Upload and choose a custom image for the background of the clock
About Live News
Live News is a premium WordPress plugin developed by DAEXT. Real Time News Ticker. It is distributed under the GPL v2 or later licence, which means you can install it on an unlimited number of websites — including websites you build and manage for your clients.
Compatibility & Requirements
Live News requires WordPress 5.0 or later, and has been tested up to WordPress 6.7, and requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Each release is reviewed for compatibility before listing, giving you a hassle-free installation experience. This listing reflects version , updated within 24 hours of the upstream release.
Understanding the GPL Licence
The General Public License (GPL) is the same licence under which WordPress itself is released. It guarantees your freedom as a user: install Live News on unlimited websites, modify it for any project, and pass it on freely. There are no per-site fees, no activation locks, and no expiry dates. Our service simply ensures you receive a clean, tested copy at the lowest possible price.
Why Download from digitalgpl
- Latest version guaranteed – Live News matches the most recent upstream release.
- Unlimited domain usage – Personal sites, client projects, and staging servers are all covered.
- Instant delivery, 24×7 – Your download link arrives immediately after payment, day or night.
- Verified before listing – Every file is tested for clean installation and conflict-free activation.
- Encrypted checkout – Payments are processed through 256-bit SSL secured gateways.
- No renewal fees – One payment covers you indefinitely. No subscriptions, no surprises.
Common Questions Answered
Is Live News compatible with my WordPress version?
Absolutely. Live News is fully tested through WordPress 6.7. We update our compatibility notes with every new version.
Am I allowed to use this on websites I build for clients?
Yes, completely. Under the GPL v2 or later licence, there are no restrictions on how many websites you can install Live News on, including commercial projects.
My server runs PHP 7.4. Will this work?
Live News requires PHP 7.4 as a minimum. Most shared hosting plans already run this version or higher.
Will I receive new versions when the developer releases them?
We monitor releases from DAEXT continuously. Once a new version is available, we verify and list it — and your account lets you re-download at any time for free.
Has this file been modified from the original?
No. The file is the genuine GPL release of Live News — identical to what DAEXT publishes. Nothing has been altered.
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