by Essential Plugin 4.4 (81 reviews)

WP News and Scrolling Widgets

Name: WP News and Scrolling Widgets
Rating: 4.4 (81 reviews)
Author: Essential Plugin

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.

WP News and Scrolling Widgets ranks #1,827 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #250 of 8,559 in the Customization category, a 4.4/5 rating from 81 reviews, and was last updated Feb 20, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.9 (Current: 7.1.1)

v5.0.6 Current Version v5.0.6

Updated 6 months ago Last Update on 20 Feb, 2026

Refreshed 13 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#250 of 8,559 in Customization Top 5% by installs Downloads -48.7% this week

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KW Avg Position

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677.8K

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Rating

88%

Review 4.4 out of 5

4.4 (81 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 49.3%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.4

81 reviews

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

3 known vulnerabilities on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Apr 9, 2026

WP News and Scrolling Widgets [sp-news-and-widget] < 5.0.6.1 (closed)

CVE-2026-6443 · Fixed in v5.0.6.1
Aug 16, 2023

WP News and Scrolling Widgets [sp-news-and-widget] < 4.9 (closed)

CVE-2023-40200 · Fixed in v4.9
Jul 18, 2023

WP News and Scrolling Widgets [sp-news-and-widget] < 4.2 (closed)

CVE-2023-33999 · Fixed in v4.2

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Plugin Details

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

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.4
Reviews: 81
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to display news content using widgets and shortcodes. It solves the problem of adding, organizing, and displaying news posts through a custom post type, scrolling and thumbnail widgets, and a configurable shortcode with category filtering and pagination.

News custom post type
News shortcode with parameters
Scrolling news widget
News thumbnail widget
Gutenberg block support
Category filtering
Pagination support
German and French language support

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.