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Breaking News WP

Description

Breaking News WP allows you to place a custom breaking news bar wherever you like,
and to customize the breaking news bar in various ways, like:

  • Dimension of the bar
  • Color of the backgrounds
  • Color of the title and the news
  • Title of the bar
  • Number of news to show
  • News to show filtered based on the categories of the news
  • Possibility to add a custom text

HOW TO USE BREAKING NEWS:

  • PHP Code: echo do_shortcode(‘[breaking-news-wp]’);
  • Editor: [breaking-news-wp]

FURTHER READING

For more info about the plugin, check out the following link: Breaking News WP Plugin WordPress – Guide to use

Screenshots

  • The breaking-news-wp config panel

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/breaking-news-wp directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate Breaking News Wp through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Use the Breaking News WP panel in the Admin Panel to configure the plugin

Reviews

Mis-Genver 8, 2020
This simple little plugin was the best of 4 that I tested out. And I could also tune the colours to match the website. Great. Look no further! My heartfelt gratitude to the makers.
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Contributors & Developers

“Breaking News WP” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Breaking News WP” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Interested in development?

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Changelog

1.2

  • Created translations for the option panel

1.2.5

  • Added changelog section and bugfix

1.3

  • Now you can add a custom text in the bar instead of the news, with a simple wordpress editor in the setting page