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.
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Key Features
- Modern List, Card, and Carousel layouts
- Mix multiple post types (News, Posts, Products, custom CPTs) into a single layout
- Repeatable curated Collections — tag posts from any post type, pull them all in with one attribute
- News Ticker with Scroll, Fade, and Flap (push-up) animations
- Built-in Shortcode Generator — no coding needed
- Category and tag support
- Featured images with hover zoom
- Source attribution and external article linking
- Pagination and Load More support
- Elementor Theme Builder support
- Native Gutenberg block
- Mobile responsive layouts
- Lightweight and fast
Modern News Layouts
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.
Carousel Layout — A sliding row of news cards with autoplay, arrows, dot navigation, and a true infinite loop (the last slide slides out and the first slides back in from the right — no reverse jump). Great for homepage highlights, sidebars, and any spot where a full grid would take up too much room. Mix WPYog News with Posts, Products, or any custom post type, or pull in a curated Collection — all in the same sliding carousel.
[wpyog_news layout="carousel" slides_to_show="3" autoplay="true" autoplay_speed="4000" infinite="true" arrows="true" dots="true" transition="slide"]
[wpyog_news layout="carousel" post_type="post,wpyog_document,wpyog_news" collection="homepage-picks" slides_to_show="3"]
News Ticker
Display scrolling news headlines at the top of any page with the [wpyog_ticker] shortcode. Three animation styles are included:
- Scroll — Continuous horizontal ticker tape. Classic and eye-catching.
- Fade — Headlines cross-fade one at a time. Clean and subtle.
- Flap — Push-up slide animation — current headline slides out upward while the next slides in from below, like an airport departure board.
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 prefers-reduced-motion.
[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"]
Smart Shortcode Generator
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.
[wpyog_news layout="card" columns="3" limit="9"]
External News & Source Attribution
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.
[wpyog_news] — Shortcode Attributes
layout — Display style. Options: list or card. Default: list
limit — Number of news items to display. Default: 10
category — Filter by category ID. Use comma-separated IDs for multiple categories. Default: all categories
show_date — Show or hide the publication date. Options: true or false. Default: true
show_excerpt — Show or hide the excerpt. Options: true or false. Default: true
excerpt_length — Excerpt length in words. Default: 20
show_source — Show or hide source attribution. Options: true or false. Default: true
order — Sort direction. Options: DESC (newest first) or ASC (oldest first). Default: DESC
orderby — Sort field. Options: date, title, or rand. Default: date
columns — Grid columns (card layout only). Options: 2, 3, or 4. Default: 3
pagination_type — Pagination style (list layout only). Options: numeric or prev-next. Default: numeric
extra_class — Add a custom CSS class to the wrapper. Default: none
post_type — Mix WPYog News with other post types in the same layout. Comma-separated CPT slugs, e.g. post_type="wpyog_news,post,product". Only shared fields (title, excerpt, featured image, date) are used for mixed items — anything WPYog-News-specific (External URL, Source Details) is simply skipped for items that don’t have it. Default: wpyog_news
taxonomy — Taxonomy the category attribute filters against. Default: wpyog_news_cat. Only change this if the other post types you’re mixing in share a different taxonomy (e.g. category) — WPYog News’s own category taxonomy only applies to wpyog_news items.
show_type — Show a small badge with each item’s post type label (e.g. “News”, “Post”) — handy for telling sources apart when mixing post types. Options: true or false. Default: false
ids — Hand-pick exact posts to display, across any mix of post types — no shared category needed. Comma-separated post IDs, e.g. ids="12,45,78". Overrides limit, category, and pagination; posts appear in the order listed unless orderby is set to something else. Find a post’s ID from the URL when editing it (post.php?post=123).
collection — Show a repeatable curated group of posts spanning any mix of post types, without editing the shortcode as the group grows. Tick the checkbox for a “Collection” on any post from its normal edit screen (or click “+ Add New Collection” to create one — no shortcode needed), then pull them all in with collection="homepage-picks" (comma-separated slugs for more than one). Combines with category (both must match) but is ignored when ids is set.
[wpyog_ticker] — Shortcode Attributes
animation — Animation style. Options: scroll, fade, or flap. Default: scroll
speed — Animation speed. Options: slow, medium, fast, or any integer (px/s). Default: medium
limit — Number of news items to show. Default: 10
category — Filter by category ID, comma-separated. Default: all categories
order — Sort direction: DESC or ASC. Default: DESC
orderby — Sort field: date, title, or rand. Default: date
show_label — Show or hide the label chip. Options: true or false. Default: true
label — Label text. Default: Breaking News
label_bg — Label background colour (hex). Default: #e74c3c
label_color — Label text colour (hex). Default: #ffffff
show_date — Show publication date next to each headline. Options: true or false. Default: true
show_count — Show a post counter (e.g. 2 / 10). Options: true or false. Applies to fade and flap only. Default: false
pause_on_hover — Pause ticker on mouse hover. Options: true or false. Default: true
direction — Scroll direction (scroll mode only). Options: left or right. Default: left
separator — Character between items (scroll mode only). Default: •
extra_class — Add a custom CSS class to the wrapper. Default: none
Also registered as [wpyog_news_ticker] — both shortcode names work identically.
Use Cases
- Company News & Announcements — business updates, product launches, press releases
- School & Educational Notices — school updates, event notices, circulars
- Cybersecurity & Technology News — curated industry news feeds with external article support
- Healthcare & Medical Updates — healthcare notices, awareness articles, medical industry updates
- Corporate Blogs & Editorial Sections — lightweight editorial sections without magazine theme complexity
- Curated Industry News Portals — aggregate external news while properly crediting sources
- Breaking News Tickers — add a scrolling or animated news bar to any page or header
More Plugins from WPYog
- WPYog Team — Team showcase plugin
- WPYog Docs — Document management plugin
Built by Poppins Digital.