Current Version : 1.8

Every CMS site needs a news section. WP News and Scrolling Widgets allows you to add, manage and display news, widget, vertical news scrolling widget on your website.

Plugin Info : Plugin Version 1.8 | Compatible Up to WordPress 6.7.X | Changelogs

Note : News and Scrolling Widgets Pro plugin is created with custom post type and it creates a News Pro menu tab in your WordPress admin side.
If you are looking for plugin that work with your WordPress existing Post, please use our plugin Blog Designer – Post and Widget Pro

Compatible with Your Favorite Page Builder and Themes

Page Builder Support

50 Designs for News Grid Layout

45 Designs for News Slider/Carousel Layout

25+ Designs for News List, Grid Box and Grid Box Slider Layout

Added News Ticker Feature

Create a responsive, animated breaking news ticker for your site within a min. Customize ticker with background color, font color etc. WP News and Scrolling Widgets Pro

WP News and Scrolling Widgets Pro

WP News and Scrolling Widgets Pro

WP News and Scrolling Widgets Pro

Create a News Page OR News Website

Creating a News page OR creating a news website is very essay with this plugin. Use the category shortcode to display News posts with multiple designs.

WP News and Scrolling Widgets Pro

Powerful Shortcode Generator Tool

You are able to setup the plugin as quickly as possible due to the Built in Live Shortcode Generator.

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Features

Easy to use and setup.
News grid view.
News block view.
News slider view.
News carousel view.
News Ticker.
50 stunning and cool layouts.
Different types of 7 news widgets.
Display news with title, content, category and etc.
3 different type of shortcode with strong parameters.
‘publicize’ Jetpack support for news.
Fully responsive and touch based slider.
RTL support for slider.
Display number of news with 6 different types of sorting order.
Display category wise news.
Display specific news.
Include/Exclude some news.
Include/Exclude some news category.
News with pagination.
Two types of Pagination. (Numeric and Prev – Next).
Custom ‘Read More’ link on news.
Drag & Drop feature to display news post in your desired order.
WPBakery Page Builder Support.
Choose link behavior to open in a new window or self window.
Custom CSS plugin setting to override plugin CSS and add your own.
Fully Responsive.
100% Multilingual at both front end and back end.
Detailed documentation included.

Change Log:

= 1.8 (13, March 2025) =
* [*] Update - Create Gutenberg blocks with block.JSON metadata.
* [*] Fix - Fixed some widget issue.
* [*] Check compatibility     with PHP version 8.1
* [*] Check compatibility to WordPress version 6.7.2
* [*] Tweak - Code optimization and performance improvements.
* [*] Template File - Major template file has been changed. If you have an override template file in your theme then verify with the latest copy.

= 1.7 (15, Nov 2022) =
* [*] New - Added read more button text post setting. Now you can change the read more button text for particular news.
* [*] New - Added old browser image compatibility with object-fit CSS.
* [*] Update - Added nonce security to plugin reset setting.
* [*] Update - Use escaping functions for better security.
* [*] Update - Update post sorting functionality to work smoothly with pagination.
* [*] Update - Update Slick slider JS to stable version 1.8.0
* [*] Update - Improved WPBakery Page Builder support.
* [*] Update - Now pagination will work with archive page.
* [*] Fix - Fixed slider initialize issue in Elementor tab and accordion.
* [*] Fix - Fixed slider initialization issue with Elementor vertical tab.
* [*] Fix - SEO & HTML validation error of empty image source when plugin lazy load is enabled.
* [*] Tweak - Code optimization and performance improvements.
* [*] Template File - Major template file has been changed. If you have an override template file in your theme then verify with the latest copy.
* [*] Check compatibility to WordPress version 6.1

= 1.6 (19, Jan 2022) =
* [+] New - Add new settings to manage news post slug, category slug, enable Gutenberg editor, and disable category archive page.
* [*] Update - Update Numeric and Prev - Next pagination to scroll back to plugin shortcode on page load.
* [*] Update - Use escaping functions for better security.
* [*] Update - JavaScript syntax for jQuery 3.0 and higher with compatibility to WordPress version 5.6
* [*] Update - Added filters to modify plugin query for developers.
* [*] Fix - Fixed one deprecated warning in Gutenberg block from WordPress 5.7
* [*] Tweak - Code optimization and performance improvements.
* [*] Check compatibility to WordPress version 5.8.3
* [*] Template File - Major template file has been changed. If you have an override template file in your theme then verify with the latest copy.

= 1.5 (28, June 2021) =
* [+] New - Added 'sp_news_masonry' shortcode to plugin. Now 'WP News and Widget - Masonry Layout' add-on is no more needed.
* [+] New - Added Elementor page builder support.
* [+] New - Added SiteOrigin page builder support.
* [+] New - Added Beaver builder support.
* [+] New - Added Divi page builder native support.
* [+] New - Added Fusion (Avada) page builder native support.
* [+] New - Improved WP Bakery Page Builder Support. Now plugin works in page builder tab, accordion, toggle and etc elements.
* [+] New - Click to copy the shortcode from the getting started page.
* [+] New - Added "scroll_speed", "arrow_button" and "pause_button" for ticker shortcode parameters.
* [+] New - Added "icon_bg_color", "icon_color", "icon_hover_bg_color" and "icon_hover_color" shortcode parameters for complete dynamic ticker design.
* [+] New - Include new ticker JS for RTL support and better compatibility.
* [*] Update - Improved tool tip text in 'Shortcode Builder' page for better understanding.
* [+] Update - Major JS and CSS file updated.
* [*] Check compatibility with latest version of the WordPress.
* [*] Tweak - Code optimization and performance improvements.
* [*] Template File - Minor template file has been updated. If you have an override template file then verify with the latest copy.

= 1.4 (06, Nov 2019) =
* [+] New - Added Gutenberg block. Now use plugin easily with Gutenberg!
* [+] New - Added 'show_author' shortcode parameter for all shortcodes.
* [+] New - Added 'hover_pause' and 'focus_pause' shortcode parameter for all slider shortcodes and widgets. Now you can pause the slider on mouse hover and slider element focus.
* [+] New - Added 'centermode' shortcode parameter for '[sp_news_slider]' slider shortcode.
* [+] Update - Minified some CSS and JS.
* [*] Tweak - Pagination will if page is divided into multiple pages with <!--nextpage--> tag.
* [*] Tweak - Pagination will work on single post also.
* [*] Tweak - Code optimization and performance improvements.
* [*] Template File - Major template file has been updated. If you have override template file then verify with latest copy.

= 1.3 (22, Sep 2018) =
* [+] New - Added Templating feature. Now you can override plugin design from your current theme!!
* [+] New - Added 'Author' support to post type.
* [+] New - Added 'include_author' and 'exclude_author' shortcode paramter for shortcodes and widgets.
* [*] Fix - Post link issue with 'News Slider' widget.
* [*] Fix - 'query_offset' parameter issue with 'News Scrolling' widget.
* [*] Fix - Fixed some design issue.
* [*] Tweak - Taken better care of Post Title as image ALT tag for widgets.

= 1.2 (19, March 2018) =
* [+] Introduced 'Shortcode Generator' functionality with Preview Panel.
* [+] Added 'extra_class' shortcode parameter in plugin shortcode. Now you can add your extra class and use it for custom designing.
* [*] Used 'wp_reset_postdata' instead of 'wp_reset_query'.
* [*] Updated slick slider js to latest version 1.8.0
* [*] Fixed some warnings with widgets while using with WordPress customizer.
* [*] Fixed some minor issues.

= 1.1 (04, July 2017) =
* [+] Added new shortcode [wpnw_news_list] for list news layouts with 8 designs.
* [+] Added new shortcode [wpnw_gridbox] for Grid Box news layouts with 13 designs.
* [+] Added new shortcode [wpnw_gridbox_slider] for GridBox news slider layouts with 8 designs.
* [+] Added Visual Composer for 3 new shortcodes.
* [+] Added new shortcode parameters i.e. image_fit(true OR false) and media_size(thumbnail, medium, large, full)
* [+] Added new 20+ news designs in existing News Grid shortcode [sp_news]
* [+] Added new 20+ news designs in existing News Slider shortcode [sp_news_slider]
* [+] Added Image Fit, Media Size and Image height options in widgets.
* [+] Added 'Russian translation' (Beta)
* [*] Fixed some CSS issue for widgets.
* [*] Fixed some CSS issue for Grid Block view.
* [*] Added prefix for the classes to avoid the conflict with other plugins/themes
* [-] Designs #26, #27 and #36 are deprecated from shortcode [sp_news] and added in new shortcode [wpnw_news_list] as a design #5, #6 and #7 respectively.
* [-] Designs #28, #29, #31, #45, #46 and #47 are deprecated from shortcode [sp_news] and added in new shortcode [wpnw_gridbox] as a design #1, #2, #3, #6, #7 and #8 respectively.
* [-] Designs #40, #41 and #42 are deprecated from shortcode [sp_news_slider] and   and added in new shortcode [wpnw_gridbox_slider] as a #1, #2 and #3 respectively.

= 1.0 =
* Initial release.

WP News and Scrolling Widgets Pro WordPress Plugin