WP News and Scrolling Widgets

Getting Started

WP News and Scrolling Widgets add a Menu tab in WP Admin side with the name “News” where you can add a new News post, edit and delete. You can also add categories for News.

The below screen shows how to add a News post. You just click on “Add News” and an insert News title and contents as you add for WordPress post.

Gutenberg Blocks

Please go to page or post and add “Gutenberg Blocks“.

How to Display and Shortcodes

Display a News page is very simple. Just go to Pages-> add New and add page title i.e Our News and shortcode.

News Shortcode

[sp_news]

Note: Please make sure that Permalink link should not be “/news” Otherwise all your news will go to archive page. You can give it other name like “/ournews, /latestnews etc”

1) Display News in a page (list view and grid view)
[sp_news limit="10"]
2) Display Latest News on Homepage/Frontpage in list view and grid view
[sp_news limit="3" grid="3"]
3) Display News post by category:
[sp_news category="category_id"]

Following are News Parameters

Limit:
[sp_news limit="10"]
Display latest 10 News post and then pagination. Display all post by limit=”-1″.
Pagination Type:
[sp_news pagination_type="numeric"]
Select the pagination type for news. i.e “numeric” OR “next-prev”.
Category:
[sp_news category="40"]
Display News post category wise. You can pass id.
Pagination:
[sp_news pagination="true"]
Display Pagination.default value is “true OR false”.
Grid:
[sp_news grid="2"]
Display News in Grid formats.
Show Date:
[sp_news show_date="false"]
Display News date OR not. By default value is “true”. Options are “true OR false”.
Show Content:
[sp_news show_content="true"]
Display News post Short content OR not. By default value is “true”. Options are “true OR false”.
Show Full Content:
[sp_news show_full_content="true"]
Display Full news content on main page if you do not want word limit. By default value is “false”.
Show Category Name:
[sp_news show_category_name="true"]
Display News post category name OR not. By default value is “True”. Options are “ture OR false”.
Content Words Limit:
[sp_news content_words_limit="30" ]
Control News post short content Words limit. By default limit is 20 words.
Order:
[sp_news order="DESC"]
Designates the ascending or descending order of the ‘order by’ parameter. Defaults to ‘DESC’. Values are “DESC” and “ASC”.
Order by:
[sp_news orderby="date"]
Sort retrieved posts by parameter. Defaults to ‘date’. One or more options can be passed. ‘none’ , ID’ , ‘author’ , ‘title’ , ‘name’ , ‘rand’ , ‘date’.
Extra Class:
[sp_news extra_class=""]
You can add extra class.
Note: Extra class added as parent so using extra class you customize your design.