OXP Breaking News Ticker

Description

OXP Breaking News Ticker lets you create reusable ticker presets and place them anywhere on your site with a simple shortcode or the native Gutenberg block. 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 + optional date) and reorder them with drag and drop.
• Optional date per item: items loaded from posts capture their publication date, manual items take the date you pick. Choose where it sits (before or after the headline), how it reads (site format, short, day and month, long, relative, or your own pattern), and give it its own typography and opacity.
• “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 (Premium).
• Display limit: show only the first N items from a longer list (Premium).
• Per-ticker internal description (Premium).
• JSON import / export of tickers from the list screen (all or selected).

Design

• Four structural themes: Classic, Modern, Breaking News, and Minimalist.
• Six hand-tuned color palettes — Breaking, Aurora, Coffee, Editorial, Arctic, and Caribbean — plus a fully custom palette with gradients, included in the free plan.
• Every palette works in a dark and a light mode, switchable per ticker: the mode sets the background, the headline text, and the control buttons (hover included), while the palette keeps its accent color.
• Independent typography for news text, label, and item date: font family, weight, size, style, decoration, and text transform (plus opacity for the date).
• 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, label pulse dot, per-headline pulse dot, and label.
• Optional edge fade: headlines fade out at the sides of the news area.
• Configurable height and max-width.

Behavior

• Three movement modes: Slide (one headline at a time), Fade (crossfade in place),
  and Continuous (endless marquee strip with configurable scroll speed).
• Scroll direction: left, right, up, or down (left/right in Continuous mode).
• Speed, easing, inter-item delay, and scroll offset.
• Autoplay, loop, pause on hover or tap, pause when the browser tab loses focus.
• Optional blinking pulse dot before each headline.

Placing the ticker

• Shortcode [oxpbnt_ticker id="X"], with one-click copy from the ticker list and from the editor.
• Native Gutenberg block: search for “Breaking News Ticker”, pick a saved ticker from the selector, and see it previewed right on the canvas. If you have none yet, the block offers a “Create your first ticker” button. Supports wide and full alignment.
• Both point at the same saved ticker, so editing it updates every place it was inserted.
• Settings lists every editor found on your site and lets you turn each one on or off. The shortcode is always available; unchecking the block removes it from the inserter without touching pages that already use it.

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.
• AJAX activation toggle from the ticker list.
• Optional clean uninstall that removes all plugin data.