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Live News

v1.10
by DAEXT

The Live News Lite plugin generates a fixed news ticker that you can use to communicate the latest news, financial news, weather warnings, election re …

4K+ active installs Updated May 11, 2025 Tested to 6.8.1 Requires PHP 7.2
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Live News

About Live News

The Live News Lite plugin creates a customizable news ticker with options for manually adding news or automatically generating news from posts or RSS feeds. It allows for customization of colors, typography, links, and more, with advanced options for controlling layout and appearance. The plugin is suitable for various uses, including digital signage systems, and comes with extensive documentation for implementation.

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Changelog

1.10

May 11, 2025

  • Fixed PHP notice caused by early use of translation functions.
  • Fixed JavaScript deprecation notices for back-end functionality.
  • Resolved CSS style issue.

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.

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