Create modern news sections, announcements, and article showcases with List, Card, and Ticker displays — all without coding.

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Simple News

A very simple news plugin that output news.

WPYog

WPYog News is a modern WordPress news and announcement plugin designed to help businesses, schools, organizations, startups, agencies, and publishers create clean and professional news sections directly inside WordPress.
Built from real-world business workflows, the plugin provides a lightweight and flexible way to manage company updates, announcements, featured articles, press releases, and curated external news without relying on bloated magazine themes or complicated page-builder setups.
Whether you are publishing company announcements, school notices, cybersecurity updates, healthcare news, product launches, industry articles, curated external news, or digital transformation insights — WPYog News helps you create organized and engaging news sections that are simple to manage and beautiful to browse.
<h4>Live Demo</h4>
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<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Modern List and Card layouts</li>
<li>News Ticker with Scroll, Fade, and Flap (push-up) animations</li>
<li>Built-in Shortcode Generator — no coding needed</li>
<li>Category and tag support</li>
<li>Featured images with hover zoom</li>
<li>Source attribution and external article linking</li>
<li>Pagination and Load More support</li>
<li>Elementor Theme Builder support</li>
<li>Native Gutenberg block</li>
<li>Mobile responsive layouts</li>
<li>Lightweight and fast</li>
</ul>
<h4>Modern News Layouts</h4>
List Layout — Perfect for company updates, announcements, editorial/news websites, blogs, and industry news feeds.
Card Layout — Ideal for featured news sections, homepage highlights, magazine-style displays, and modern content showcases.
<h4>News Ticker</h4>
Display scrolling news headlines at the top of any page with the <code>[wpyog_ticker]</code> shortcode. Three animation styles are included:
<ul>
<li>Scroll — Continuous horizontal ticker tape. Classic and eye-catching.</li>
<li>Fade — Headlines cross-fade one at a time. Clean and subtle.</li>
<li>Flap — Push-up slide animation — current headline slides out upward while the next slides in from below, like an airport departure board.</li>
</ul>
The ticker supports a custom label chip with configurable background colour and text colour, pause-on-hover, a post counter badge (e.g. 3 / 10), date display, category filtering, and full accessibility support including <code>prefers-reduced-motion</code>.
<pre><code>[wpyog_ticker animation="scroll" label="Breaking News" speed="medium" limit="10"]

[wpyog_ticker animation="flap" show_count="true" show_date="true" label="Top News" label_bg="#1a1a2e"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Smart Shortcode Generator</h4>
Generate custom shortcodes directly from the admin panel without coding. The Shortcode Generator has two tabs — one for News List/Card and one for the News Ticker — with a live preview that updates as you change settings.
<pre><code>[wpyog_news layout="card" columns="3" limit="9"]
</code></pre>
<h4>External News & Source Attribution</h4>
WPYog News supports curated external news workflows with external article URLs, source name display, source website links, favicon/logo support, and proper source attribution. Perfect for curated industry news, cybersecurity updates, compliance news, digital transformation articles, and technology feeds.
<h4>[wpyog_news] — Shortcode Attributes</h4>
<code>layout</code> — Display style. Options: <code>list</code> or <code>card</code>. Default: <code>list</code>
<code>limit</code> — Number of news items to display. Default: <code>10</code>
<code>category</code> — Filter by category ID. Use comma-separated IDs for multiple categories. Default: all categories
<code>show_date</code> — Show or hide the publication date. Options: <code>true</code> or <code>false</code>. Default: <code>true</code>
<code>show_excerpt</code> — Show or hide the excerpt. Options: <code>true</code> or <code>false</code>. Default: <code>true</code>
<code>excerpt_length</code> — Excerpt length in words. Default: <code>20</code>
<code>show_source</code> — Show or hide source attribution. Options: <code>true</code> or <code>false</code>. Default: <code>true</code>
<code>order</code> — Sort direction. Options: <code>DESC</code> (newest first) or <code>ASC</code> (oldest first). Default: <code>DESC</code>
<code>orderby</code> — Sort field. Options: <code>date</code>, <code>title</code>, or <code>rand</code>. Default: <code>date</code>
<code>columns</code> — Grid columns (card layout only). Options: <code>2</code>, <code>3</code>, or <code>4</code>. Default: <code>3</code>
<code>pagination_type</code> — Pagination style (list layout only). Options: <code>numeric</code> or <code>prev-next</code>. Default: <code>numeric</code>
<code>extra_class</code> — Add a custom CSS class to the wrapper. Default: none
<h4>[wpyog_ticker] — Shortcode Attributes</h4>
<code>animation</code> — Animation style. Options: <code>scroll</code>, <code>fade</code>, or <code>flap</code>. Default: <code>scroll</code>
<code>speed</code> — Animation speed. Options: <code>slow</code>, <code>medium</code>, <code>fast</code>, or any integer (px/s). Default: <code>medium</code>
<code>limit</code> — Number of news items to show. Default: <code>10</code>
<code>category</code> — Filter by category ID, comma-separated. Default: all categories
<code>order</code> — Sort direction: <code>DESC</code> or <code>ASC</code>. Default: <code>DESC</code>
<code>orderby</code> — Sort field: <code>date</code>, <code>title</code>, or <code>rand</code>. Default: <code>date</code>
<code>show_label</code> — Show or hide the label chip. Options: <code>true</code> or <code>false</code>. Default: <code>true</code>
<code>label</code> — Label text. Default: <code>Breaking News</code>
<code>label_bg</code> — Label background colour (hex). Default: <code>#e74c3c</code>
<code>label_color</code> — Label text colour (hex). Default: <code>#ffffff</code>
<code>show_date</code> — Show publication date next to each headline. Options: <code>true</code> or <code>false</code>. Default: <code>true</code>
<code>show_count</code> — Show a post counter (e.g. 2 / 10). Options: <code>true</code> or <code>false</code>. Applies to <code>fade</code> and <code>flap</code> only. Default: <code>false</code>
<code>pause_on_hover</code> — Pause ticker on mouse hover. Options: <code>true</code> or <code>false</code>. Default: <code>true</code>
<code>direction</code> — Scroll direction (<code>scroll</code> mode only). Options: <code>left</code> or <code>right</code>. Default: <code>left</code>
<code>separator</code> — Character between items (<code>scroll</code> mode only). Default: <code>•</code>
<code>extra_class</code> — Add a custom CSS class to the wrapper. Default: none
Also registered as <code>[wpyog_news_ticker]</code> — both shortcode names work identically.
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Company News & Announcements — business updates, product launches, press releases</li>
<li>School & Educational Notices — school updates, event notices, circulars</li>
<li>Cybersecurity & Technology News — curated industry news feeds with external article support</li>
<li>Healthcare & Medical Updates — healthcare notices, awareness articles, medical industry updates</li>
<li>Corporate Blogs & Editorial Sections — lightweight editorial sections without magazine theme complexity</li>
<li>Curated Industry News Portals — aggregate external news while properly crediting sources</li>
<li>Breaking News Tickers — add a scrolling or animated news bar to any page or header</li>
</ul>
<h4>More Plugins from WPYog</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpyog-team/" rel="ugc">WPYog Team</a> — Team showcase plugin</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpyog-documents/" rel="ugc">WPYog Docs</a> — Document management plugin</li>
</ul>
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