MarqueeX – Smooth Marquee Slider, News Ticker & Post Marquee for Block Editor & Elementor
The complete Marquee plugin for WordPress — build marquee sliders, news tickers, post marquees & infinite sliders for Elementor & Gutenberg.
Solid choice
MarqueeX is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 800+ sites and was last updated 1 day ago, and scores 74/100 on our health check.
- Actively developed — last update 1 day ago
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Momentum — downloads up 40.1% vs the previous 30 days
- Small user base (800+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & supportDaily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where MarqueeX stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| elementor marquee | #17 |
| gutenberg marquee | #4 |
| marquee | #7 |
| marquee block | #8 |
| post marquee | #4 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
About MarqueeX
From the official readme · v0.6.1Description
MarqueeX builds continuously scrolling content in WordPress — logo carousels, announcement bars, news tickers and post or product marquees — with native widgets for Elementor and native blocks for the block editor.
The motion is CSS keyframes, not JavaScript. Each widget script is under a kilobyte, and scripts and styles are registered rather than enqueued, so they load only on pages that actually render a marquee.
Blocks for the block editor
- Text Marquee – Scroll custom messages or live post titles, with full typography control
- Image Marquee – Logo carousels, product strips and galleries in an infinite slider
- News Ticker – A fixed label badge beside continuously scrolling headlines
- Post Marquee – Posts, custom post types and WooCommerce products as scrolling cards with featured image, category, title, author and date
- Infinite Slider – A general-purpose scroller you fill with any inner blocks
Every block is scoped to its own class, so a block and its matching Elementor widget can sit on the same page without their styles colliding.
Widgets for Elementor
- Image Marquee – Scrolling image galleries, client logos and portfolio strips with hover effects
- Text Marquee – Promotional banners, announcement scrollers and text loops with full typography control
- News Ticker – Breaking-news feeds, live updates and stock-style tickers
- Post Marquee – Posts, custom post types and WooCommerce products with query controls, featured images and post meta
- Animated Heading – Headlines that cycle through phrases with Slide, Slide Horizontal or Typing animation
- Animated Word Roller – A fixed headline with a rotating word beside it
- Testimonial Marquee – Reviews and quotes scrolling past, with avatar, name, role and star rating
- Team Members Marquee – Staff photos with name and role in a continuous strip
Controls you get on every marquee
- Horizontal and vertical scrolling, in either direction
- Adjustable speed, with per-device values
- Pause on hover
- Edge fade masking
- Full typography, colour, spacing and border controls
- Responsive settings for desktop, tablet and mobile, using breakpoints you set
- Custom CSS per block
Shortcodes
[marqueex_slider], `[marqueex_ticker]` and `[marqueex_infinite]` are available for themes and page builders without a dedicated integration.
What Pro adds
MarqueeX is fully usable for free — no marquee limit, no watermark, no feature that stops working. MarqueeX Pro adds:
- Scroll interactions – Visitors can spin the mouse wheel over a marquee to speed it up or reverse it, or drag it to scrub through, with momentum on release. Works in Elementor and in the block editor.
- Advanced post query – Hand-pick exactly which posts, pages or products scroll and in what order, in the Elementor widget and the Post Marquee block. The Elementor widget can also include and exclude by author and taxonomy term.
- 8 more Animated Heading animations – 3D Rotation, Construct, Twist, Line, Wave, Swing, Tilt and Lean
- Gradient and image-masked heading text
- 4 more Word Roller transitions – Horizontal, Fade, Slide and Zoom
- Post Marquee card layouts – Six content placements, plus Overlay, Blury and Lighten text treatments
Works well for
- News and magazine sites – Breaking-news tickers and scrolling headlines
- Online stores – Product strips, promotional bars and logo walls
- Business sites – Client logos, testimonials and latest posts
- Portfolios – Project strips and image galleries
- Landing pages – Announcement bars and calls to action
Quick start
Elementor
- Install and activate MarqueeX
- Check Elementor is enabled under the MarqueeX menu
- Edit a page with Elementor and search the panel for “marquee”
- Drag in Image Marquee, Text Marquee, Post Marquee or News Ticker
- Add your content, set a speed, publish
Block editor
- Install and activate MarqueeX
- Check the block editor is enabled under the MarqueeX menu
- Edit a page and add a MarqueeX block from the inserter
- Add your content, set a speed, publish
Installation
- Go to Plugins > Add New
- Search for “MarqueeX”
- Click “Install Now” then “Activate”
- Select which page builder you are using in MarqueeX Dashboard
- For Elementor: Find MarqueeX widgets in Elementor editor
- For Gutenberg: Add MarqueeX block to any page/post
- Customize settings and add your content
Frequently asked questions
Is MarqueeX free?
Yes, and it stays usable for free. There is no limit on how many marquees you build, no watermark, and no feature that stops working after a period. Pro adds extra controls; it does not switch the free ones off.
What do I get if I buy Pro?
Scroll interactions (mouse wheel and drag-to-scroll), the advanced post query builder, eight extra Animated Heading animations, gradient and image-masked heading text, four extra Word Roller transitions, and the Post Marquee card layout controls. The full list is on the pricing page.
Does it work with Elementor?
Yes — eight native widgets: Image Marquee, Text Marquee, Post Marquee, News Ticker, Animated Heading, Animated Word Roller, Testimonial Marquee and Team Members Marquee. Elementor 3.5 or newer.
Does it work with the block editor?
Yes — five native blocks, which also work in Full Site Editing themes. You do not need a page builder.
Can I use widgets and blocks on the same site?
Yes. Block styles are scoped to their own classes, so a block and its matching Elementor widget can even sit on the same page without their CSS colliding.
Can I show WooCommerce products?
Yes. Products are a public custom post type, so the Post Marquee widget and block both list them as a source, with featured image, title and meta.
Does Post Marquee support custom post types?
Yes, any public custom post type.
Can I control speed and direction?
Yes — horizontal or vertical, either direction, with per-device speed values, pause on hover, and edge fade masking.
What content can I put in a marquee?
Text, links, images, WordPress posts, custom post types and WooCommerce products. The Infinite Slider block additionally takes any inner blocks you like.
Will it slow my site down?
It is built not to. The animation is CSS keyframes rather than JavaScript, each Elementor widget script is under a kilobyte, and assets are registered rather than enqueued — so a page with no marquee on it loads nothing from MarqueeX.
Does it work with my theme?
It should. MarqueeX styles are scoped to its own classes and inherit your theme’s typography unless you override it.
Changelog
Pro: hand-pick the posts, pages or products shown in the Post Marquee block. Also fixes Comment Count ordering in that block. No Pro update required.
0.6.1 [October 2, 2026]
- Added: Manual selection in the Post Marquee block (Pro). Set Source to “Manual selection”, search by title and pick exactly which posts, pages or products scroll — from any mix of post types — then put them in the order you want. Previously only the Elementor widget could do this. Works with MarqueeX Pro 0.4.0; no Pro update needed. Thanks to @slakbk for the request.
- Fixed: “Comment Count” in the Post Marquee block’s Order By did nothing on the front end and left the editor preview loading forever.
- Fixed: Order By and Order labels in the Post Marquee block were not translatable.
- Fixed: The Elementor integration test on the settings screen passed on Elementor 3.0–3.4, where the widgets cannot register. It now uses the same 3.5 minimum as the integration itself.
- Fixed: A development readme was being included in the plugin ZIP.
- Improved: The translation template now covers the block editor controls, which it was missing entirely.
0.6.0 [September 12, 2026]
- Added: Testimonial Marquee and Team Members Marquee Elementor widgets. Both were already written and built; they were simply never registered. They are free.
- Added: Pro features are now visible rather than hidden. The eight extra Animated Heading animations, the gradient and image-mask text effects, the four extra Word Roller transitions and the Post Marquee card layouts all appear in their dropdowns marked “(Pro)”, instead of being silently absent for anyone without a license.
- Added: A first-run onboarding panel above the settings tabs, pointing you at a first marquee in the block editor or Elementor. Activation lands there; dismiss it and it never comes back.
- Added: An Elementor version check. MarqueeX needs Elementor 3.5 or newer; below that the widgets never registered, with nothing to say why.
- Added: Responsive breakpoints are now editable from the Compatibility tab. They already drove the media queries around block CSS but could not be changed from the admin.
- Removed: Schema.org structured data output. It declared the marquee to be the page’s main content and, when the scrolling text contained a word like “sale” or “offer”, emitted a schema.org
Offerfor a product that may not exist. Fabricated structured data is a risk to your site’s search standing, not ours. - Changed: Meta description generation is now off by default and has its own setting. It also no longer writes plugin marketing copy into your page description when there is no marquee text to summarize.
- Changed:
performance.lazy_loading,performance.cache_styles,compatibility.theme_compatibilityandcompatibility.plugin_compatibilitywere stored and rendered as switches but read by nothing, and the admin drew a “performance score” from them. All removed.performance.minify_cssis now actually implemented. - Fixed: Block detection for the attribution comment and meta description matched only the legacy Infinite Slider, so neither worked with the four blocks added in 0.5.0.
- Fixed: The Settings submenu opened the default tab instead of Settings.
- Improved: One upgrade destination and one locked-feature card style across the whole plugin, replacing seven hard-coded links (one stale, one a dead
#) and three different card designs. - Improved: Admin bundle is 102 KB smaller. Source maps are no longer shipped, removing 2.2 MB from the download.
0.5.4 [August 23, 2026]
- Confirmed: Tested up to WordPress 7.1.
0.5.3 [August 1, 2026]
- Improved: Tags, title and short description optimized for search relevancy on WordPress.org.
0.5.2 [June 30, 2026]
- Added: Pause on hover now works together with mouse wheel and drag-to-scroll (Pro) — hovering pauses the auto-scroll while visitors can still scroll the marquee by wheel or drag.
- Improved: Merged the separate “Mouse Wheel Control” and “Drag to Scroll” block settings into a single “Interactive Scrolling” panel for a cleaner editor experience.
0.5.1 [June 30, 2026]
- Fixed: Mouse wheel & drag-to-scroll (Pro) and block styles not loading when a marquee block is embedded into another page via a “page content renderer” — the license flag and Design-tab CSS now load whenever a MarqueeX block renders, regardless of which page outputs it.
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FAQ
MarqueeX: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 3, 2026
Is MarqueeX free?
Yes. MarqueeX is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is MarqueeX safe to use in 2026?
MarqueeX is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 800+ sites and was last updated 1 day ago, and scores 74/100 on our health check.
How many websites use MarqueeX?
MarqueeX is active on 800+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 9,081 times since it launched in February 2025. It was downloaded 1,216 times in the last 30 days.
Does MarqueeX work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested MarqueeX up to WordPress 7.1.2, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.0 or newer.
What PHP version does MarqueeX need?
MarqueeX requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was MarqueeX last updated?
The latest version, 0.6.1, was released on October 2, 2026 (1 day ago).
Who makes MarqueeX?
MarqueeX is developed and maintained by WPXERO.
What are the best alternatives to MarqueeX?
The most popular alternatives to MarqueeX are Advanced Marquee Effect for… (2K+ installs).
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