edeneye

Breaking Bar is a simple plugin which monitors any chosen category for posts. If there are posts in that category, 
the plugin displays (via the [breaking-bar] shortcode) a prominent bar with the latest post from that category. 
If there are no posts in the chosen category, Breaking Bar stays hidden. Once the shortcode is in place, this allows 
editors and authors to add posts to the Breaking Bar simply by properly categorizing the post.
Current options include:
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<li>Category selection</li>
<li>A text field for a custom label, (e.g. “Breaking” or “Latest”)</li>
<li>Color options for background, label(text) and link</li>
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Breaking Bar

A simple breaking news bar that monitors a chosen category and is displayed via a shortcode.

urre

Sometimes you just need a post type to be called news, but maybe you dont want/can’t/are to lazy to create a separate post type for this. This little plugin renames the build in post type (Post) to News. It also changes all the labels and replaces the pin icon with a pencil icon.
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<li><a href="https://github.com/urre/rename-post-to-news" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a></li>
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<h3>Feedback</h3>
Contact me at hej@urre.me or at https://twitter.com/urre and hopefully I can do something about it.

Rename Post To News

Renames the build in post type Post to News

Breaking Bar vs Rename Post To News