by Essential Plugin
4.4 (81 reviews)
WP News and Scrolling Widgets
A quick, easy way to add an News custom post type, News widget, vertical scrolling news widget to WordPress. Also work with Gutenberg shortcode block.
Compatible with WP 6.9
v5.0.6
Current Version v5.0.6
Updated 1 month ago
Last Update on 20 Feb, 2026
Refreshed 6 hours ago
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Rating
88%
Review 4.4 out of 5
4.4
(81 reviews)
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Tracked Keywords
Showing 4 of 4| Keyword | Position | Change | Type | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| main news page scrolling | 14 | — | Tag | 17 hours ago |
| wordpress horizontal news plugin widget | 59 | — | Tag | 17 hours ago |
| wordpress vertical news plugin widget | 61 | — | Tag | 17 hours ago |
| Free scrolling news wordpress plugin | 65 | — | Tag | 17 hours ago |
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- Version
- 5.0.6
- Last Updated
- Feb 20, 2026
- Requires WP
- 4.0+
- Tested Up To
- 6.9
- PHP Version
- N/A
- Author
- Essential Plugin
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- Rating
- ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.4
- Reviews
- 81
- Support Threads
- 0
- Resolved
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Keywords
Free scrolling news wordpress plugin
main news page scrolling
wordpress horizontal news plugin widget
wordpress news plugin
wordpress vertical news plugin widget
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about WP News and Scrolling Widgets
Just add this code in your theme function.php file to enable/disable Gutenberg editor support for News Posts : function prefix_gutenberg_editor_support($news_args){ $news_args['show_in_rest'] = false; return $news_args; } add_filter( 'sp_news_registered_post_type_args', 'prefix_gutenberg_editor_support' );
No, not usually. But if you are getting "/news" page OR 404 error on single news then please update your permalinks to Custom Structure.
If you are getting this error, please go to Setting --> Permalinks and under Permalinks Setting select "Plain" radio button and save. Now again go to "Post name" radio button and save again. This will fix your issue.
Use [sp_news]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07IRBn1oXrU] Privacy & Policy We have also opt-in e-mail selection , once you download the plugin , so that we can inform you and nurture you about products and its features.