A news ticker for Elementor — headlines, updates or announcements scrolling in a single line, from posts or your own text.
Choose from multiple animation styles – Whether you want your news to scroll continuously, slide up or down, slide left or right, fade in and out, or even flip with a 3D effect, the News Ticker widget gives you full control.
The ticker is the newsroom’s own running order, published as it stands. Corrections run on the same strip as the story.
Two desks, one running order and a subs desk that still reads every line out loud before it publishes.
Two reporters covering the trade rather than the front row — factory closures, freight costs and who actually got paid.
Nothing goes on this ticker until a second reporter has read the paper it came from. Embargoes are honoured and press releases are not rewritten.
Every reporter is photographed once a year and the picture runs with the story, whether they like the picture or not.
Correspondents file from nine time zones and the archive keeps the filing time, not the publishing time.
One email at six with what actually moved. The night desk is one person and a phone.
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Yes. The News Ticker widget in Sky Addons for Elementor runs from either a hand-typed list of items or a live post query, so a headline strip can update itself as you publish. The query side is the full builder — post type, authors, terms, date range, order and offset — not just a category picker.
No. Sky Addons’ News Ticker runs on free Elementor, including its post-query mode. Sky Addons and Elementor Pro are independent products, and this entire demo site is built without Pro — so a self-updating headline strip does not require a second paid plugin.
Eight. Four directional slides (left, right, up, down), a fade, a flip, and two continuous marquees. The distinction that matters: a marquee scrolls without stopping, which suits a long run of short headlines, while the slide and fade effects show one item at a time and hold it long enough to read.
Yes, and it is on by default in Sky Addons’ News Ticker — a reader who stops to read a headline is not fighting the animation. A separate switch stops the ticker permanently once a visitor interacts with it, which suits a strip carrying links people are meant to click rather than skim.
Yes. The leading chip is a plain text field, so it can read Breaking, Alerts, Now On, or your own wording rather than News. It is styled separately from the items, so the label can carry its own colour and weight without touching the headlines beside it.
Four pieces, in any combination: thumbnail, category, date and title. Sky Addons’ News Ticker defaults to category plus title, which is the compact pairing most headline strips want. Adding a thumbnail turns each item into a small card, so it suits a taller ticker rather than a single-line strip.
Yes, with one caveat worth knowing. The query builder has an Exclude By setting that removes the current post — it applies reliably with Source left on Posts and Ignore Sticky Posts at its default. On a custom post type, use the Related source instead, which handles the exclusion on its own path.
Yes. With WooCommerce active the source can be products, filtered to on-sale or featured items, with switches to hide free products and anything out of stock. That makes the ticker usable as a live offers strip rather than only a news line — the out-of-stock filter is the one that keeps it honest.
Yes. Navigation is on by default and both arrow icons are replaceable with any icon from your library, so the controls can match the rest of the page rather than sitting in a default chevron. Arrows pair best with the slide and fade effects; a continuous marquee usually reads better without them.
Six by default, and the limit is yours to set. An offset field skips a number of the newest posts first, which is the trick for running two tickers on one page — one showing the latest three, another picking up from the fourth — without either repeating the other’s headlines.
