Simple Posts Ticker – Easy, Lightweight & Flexible
The Simple Posts Ticker plugin brings a lightweight, flexible and easy way to configure news ticker plugin to WordPress website. This plugin adds scrolling horizontal posts tickers to your site. It can be use as…
Use with caution
Simple Posts Ticker works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 2K+ sites, is rated 4.5/5 and was last updated 3 years ago, and scores 43/100 on our health check.
- Loved by users — 4.5/5 from 22 reviews
- No update in 3 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 6.3 (latest is 7.1)
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Simple Posts Ticker stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| jQuery posts ticker | #28 |
| marquee | >100 |
| News Headlines | >100 |
| news ticker | >100 |
| posts ticker | #83 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 from 22 reviews
About Simple Posts Ticker
From the official readme · v1.1.6Description
The Simple Posts Ticker plugin brings a lightweight, flexible and easy way to configure news ticker plugin to WordPress website. This plugin adds scrolling horizontal posts tickers to your site. It can be use as shortcode or PHP codes. You can customize every setting of this plugin in the admin dashboard.
Advantages of this plugin
- Lightweight jQuery.
- CSS Ticker Animation.
- Easy to configuration.
- Multi Post Support.
- Full RTL Support.
- Custom Post Types support.
- Select post by date/modified date or randomly.
- Select posts by their category.
- Option to show a label before ticker.
- Option to customize all and everything.
- Supports localization.
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Shortcode instructions
Using default settings: [spt-posts-ticker]
You can use some attributes to override the original settings. Please see plugin settings for detailed shortcode attributes.
Compatibility
- This plugin is fully compatible with WordPress Version 4.6 and beyond and also compatible with any WordPress theme.
Support
- Community support via the support forums at WordPress.org.
Contribute
- Active development of this plugin is handled on GitHub.
- Feel free to fork the project on GitHub and submit your contributions via pull request.
Installation
- Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
- Search for ‘Simple Posts Ticker’ and install it.
- Or you can upload the
simple-posts-tickerfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory manually. - Activate Simple Posts Ticker from your Plugins page.
- After activation go to ‘Settings > Simple Posts Ticker’.
- Configure settings according to your need and save changes.
Frequently asked questions
How to add this to your site?
If you want to add this somewhere else on your site, like header, footer, sidebar, etc, then probably the easiest way is to go to Appearance, Widgets, and place a text widget somewhere in your layout, and use the shortcode in that.
Is this plugin support custom post types?
Yes. this plugin automatically detects all custom post types and shows all of them as a drop down in plugin settings. You need to just select it from plugin settings.
Changelog
In this release, we introduce some major changes in this plugin and also make this plugin compatible with WordPress 5.3. IMPORTANT: Please reconfigure the plugin settings after successful plugin update.
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1.1.6
Release Date: September 2, 2023
- Added: Input Sanitization.
- Updated: JS Libraries.
- Tested upto WordPress v6.3.
1.1.5
Release Date: March 23, 2020
- Added: WPML Compatibility.
- Tested upto WordPress v5.4.
1.1.4
Release Date: December 21, 2019
- Added: It is now possible to use multiple posts type in a single ticker.
- Added:
Include&Excludeshortcode parameters to include and exclude posts respectively. - Improved: Query Input using sanitization.
1.1.3
Release Date: December 20, 2019
- Added: New shortcode paarameters
css_class&ticker_loop. - Improved: The Marquee script loading mechanism.
- Improved: The Compatibility with RTL websites.
- Improved: Compatibility with WordPress jQuery.
- Fixed: Some duplicate CSS classes.
- Fixed: Plugin settings JS Warning in Browser Console.
1.1.2
Release Date: December 10, 2019
- Added: Option to set Post Info position.
- Improved: Marquee loading time.
- Improved: Post Query Mechanism.
- Improved: Admin UI.
- Improved: Custom CSS Output.
- Fixed: Wrong Tooltip text.
- Fixed: Minor Plugin settings JS problem.
1.1.1
Release Date: December 9, 2019
- NEW:
TickerPost Type. - Improvement: Added option to enable/disable links.
- Improvement: Admin UI.
- Improvement: Uninstallation Process.
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FAQ
Simple Posts Ticker: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 27, 2026
Is Simple Posts Ticker free?
Yes. Simple Posts Ticker is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Simple Posts Ticker safe to use in 2026?
Simple Posts Ticker works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 2K+ sites, is rated 4.5/5 and was last updated 3 years ago, and scores 43/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Simple Posts Ticker?
Simple Posts Ticker is active on 2K+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 24,015 times since it launched in December 2018. It was downloaded 192 times in the last 30 days.
Does Simple Posts Ticker work with WordPress 7.1?
Simple Posts Ticker is officially tested up to WordPress 6.3.12, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
What PHP version does Simple Posts Ticker need?
Simple Posts Ticker requires PHP 5.6 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Simple Posts Ticker last updated?
The latest version, 1.1.6, was released on September 2, 2023 (3 years ago).
Who makes Simple Posts Ticker?
Simple Posts Ticker is developed and maintained by Sayan Datta.
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