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Live News – Real Time News Ticker

Live News – Real Time News Ticker displays headlines in continuous horizontal scroll across the top, footer, or any widget area, pulling titles from WordPress…

Live News – Real Time News Ticker
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Version history

2.18 published here on 19 Jun 2026.

When the developer ships a new version it is published here, usually within days.

The file

Published
19 Jun 2026
Type
Plugin
License
GPL v2 or later

Overview

What you’re getting

Live News – Real Time News Ticker displays headlines in continuous horizontal scroll across the top, footer, or any widget area, pulling titles from WordPress posts, external RSS feeds, or manually entered lists. Built for news portals, editorial blogs, and online magazines, it functions as a real time ticker highlighting recent posts, specific categories, or urgent notices without page reloads.

Key Features

  • Animated horizontal ticker with configurable speed and direction
  • Pulls content from WordPress posts, external RSS feeds, or manual entries
  • Filter by category and limit the number of recent posts displayed

Getting it

How to download Live News for free

Buy this plugin on its own for $3.49, or take a membership from $14 and download it along with every other product on the site.

Either way you get the same file: the original .zip as the developer published it, with nothing removed and nothing added. Every upload is virus-scanned before it reaches your account, and earlier builds stay available if you ever need to match an existing site.

Updates come from us rather than from the developer: we publish each new release, usually within days. Members get them inside the WordPress dashboard through our Auto Updater plugin, and the setup guide walks through connecting a site.

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This plugin alone, or everything

Just this plugin

This plugin only, yours to keep and re-download.

  • Live News – Real Time News Ticker
  • Earlier versions of this plugin
  • One year of support
  • No Auto Updater
  • No original licenses

$3.49 once

Membership

Best value

This plugin and 16,000+ other plugins, themes and kits.

  • Every plugin, theme and kit
  • 4 earlier versions of every item
  • Priority support with ticket tracking
  • Auto Updater on 15 sites
  • Original licenses, 18 activations

$6.58 a month, billed yearly

Activation

What works without a Live News license key

Everything. The GPL license is already active in the code you receive, so every feature is present and working the moment you activate the plugin: nothing is stripped out, nothing is disabled, and your visitors see no difference from a site running the developer’s own copy.

The one thing a developer’s key normally carries is automatic updates from their servers. Members get those through our Auto Updater plugin, which delivers each new release into the WordPress dashboard. The setup guide takes about two minutes.

The one exception anywhere in the catalogue is a feature that runs on the developer’s own servers rather than on your site, a hosted template library for instance. Those are theirs to serve, not ours to redistribute, and where one applies we say so on this page rather than letting you find out afterwards.

Installation

Up and running in minutes

  1. 1

    Download the .zip

    If it holds extras such as documentation, unzip it first and keep only the plugin file.

  2. 2

    Upload it to WordPress

    Go to Plugins Add New Upload Plugin, choose the file, then Install Now.

  3. 3

    Activate

    Click Activate.

Stuck on a step? We’re happy to help with installation.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Can I get Live News for free?

You can download it here for $3.49, or with a membership that includes every product on the site. It is not free of charge, but it is free of a recurring per-site license — the GPL allows redistribution, so you pay once rather than every year for every domain.

Is the Live News free download legal?

Yes. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License, the same license WordPress itself uses, and the GPL expressly permits redistribution including for a fee. You receive the original unmodified file. What is not legal, and what we do not do, is distributing nulled software with the license check stripped out of the code.

Does Live News need a license key?

No key is required to install and use the plugin, and your visitors see no difference. What a developer license adds is their own support channel, updates direct from their servers, and in some products a connection to their template or content library. Updates come from us instead. Members can also activate an original license on selected products.

Will I get Live News updates?

Yes. When the developer releases a new version we publish it here, usually within days, and you download it from your account and install it over the previous one. Members also get it through our Auto Updater plugin, inside the WordPress dashboard. Earlier builds stay available in your account if you ever need to roll back.

How many websites can I use Live News on?

As many as you like. The GPL places no limit on installations, so you can use this plugin on every site you build. Per-site limits come from a developer’s license terms, not from the code.

Is this the original Live News file?

Yes. Downloaded from the developer and redistributed unmodified, with nothing added and nothing removed. Every file is virus-scanned before release. If you find a problem, use Report a problem on this page and we will fix it.

Still have a question?

Or open a support ticket and we’ll answer it.

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Monthly

$14 a month

Month to month

  • 25 downloads a day
  • Auto Updater on 5 sites
  • 2 license activations
  • Standard support

Yearly

Best value

$6.58 a month

$79 billed yearly save 53%

  • 50 downloads a day
  • Auto Updater on 15 sites
  • 18 license activations
  • Priority support

Lifetime

$179 once

Pay once, no renewal

  • 75 downloads a day
  • Auto Updater on 30 sites
  • 30 license activations
  • Priority support

Everything, $6.58/moThis plugin included