News Ticker

The News Ticker shortcode for WordPress can be used to display a scrolling news sticker style with latest headlines or posts published on your website. Check below for example implementations and shortcode documentation:

News Ticker Examples

Breaking News
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News Ticker Shortcodes

News Ticker Shortcode
[x3m-ticker title="Breaking News" titlebackground="red" titlecolor="white" categoryid="1" entries="5" background="black" textcolor="yellow"]
The shortcode can be used to display a news ticker section with scrolling headlines or posts, with customizable style, number of headlines or category. Above example displays a news ticker pulling latest article headings from our X3M Shortcodes category.

News Ticker Documentation

Here are the shortcode option settings available for News Ticker:

Shortcode Settings Details
title=”Breaking News” This is used to set the title shown on the News Ticker.
titlebackground=”red” This is used to set the background color for the News Ticker title area.

Color names or HEX color codes can be used to set the desired color.

titlecolor=”white” This is used to set the text color for the News Ticker title.

Color names or HEX color codes can be used to set the desired color.

categoryid=”1″ This is used to set the category ID from where the headlines will be pulled.
entries=”5″ This is used to set the number of headlines to be included in the scrolling ticker area.
background=”black” This is used to set the background color for the News Ticker scrolling headlines area.

Color names or HEX color codes can be used to set the desired color.

textcolor=”white” This is used to set the text color for the News Ticker scrolling headlines.

Color names or HEX color codes can be used to set the desired color.