OXP Breaking News Ticker

OXP Breaking News Ticker lets you create reusable ticker presets and place them anywhere on your site with a simple shortcode. Configure each ticker once — headlines, scroll behavior, colors, and typography — then reuse it across as many pages or posts as you need. No coding required. Each ticker is an independent preset. Activate or deactivate any of them from the list with a single click; changes take effect immediately, with no page reload needed.

Features

Content

• Add news items manually (title + URL) and reorder them with drag and drop.
• « Load from posts » snapshot picker: browse any post type, filter by taxonomy and terms, search by keyword, and load matching posts as items in one click. Each post is captured as a snapshot — no database queries at render time, no performance impact on your visitors.
• Link options per ticker: open in new tab, custom rel attribute.
• Display limit: show only the first N items from a longer list.

Design

• Three structural themes: Classic, Modern, and Breaking News.
• Six hand-tuned color palettes: Breaking, Aurora, Coffee, Editorial, Arctic, and Caribbean.
• Independent typography for news text and for the label: font family, weight, size, style, decoration, and text transform.
• Google Fonts are self-hosted at save time — no requests to Google servers at runtime (GDPR-compliant).
• Show or hide individual elements per ticker: previous/next buttons, play-pause toggle, pulse dot, and label.
• Configurable height and max-width.

Behavior

• Scroll direction: left, right, up, or down.
• Speed, easing, inter-item delay, and scroll offset.
• Autoplay, loop, pause on hover or tap, pause when the browser tab loses focus.

Accessibility and performance

• ARIA live regions, keyboard navigation, and prefers-reduced-motion support.
• Assets load only on pages that contain a ticker, or globally — your choice in Settings.
• One-click shortcode copy from the ticker list. AJAX activation toggle.
• Optional clean uninstall that removes all plugin data.