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Floating News Headline<\/strong> is a professional-grade, lightweight news ticker plugin designed for speed, beauty, and zero theme conflicts<\/strong>. Display breaking news, latest posts, hand-picked headlines, or custom alerts in a sleek, non-intrusive floating bar on your WordPress site.<\/p>\n\n Built from the ground up with a modern React admin dashboard<\/strong> and GPU-accelerated BEM-CSS architecture<\/strong>, this plugin delivers silky-smooth scrolling animations without slowing down your website.<\/p>\n\n Unlike other ticker plugins that rely on heavy jQuery dependencies and outdated markup, Floating News Headline uses:<\/p>\n\n Go to News Headlines<\/strong> in your WordPress admin. Use the toggle switch in the top-right corner of the dashboard to enable or disable the ticker globally.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes! Use The free version supports standard Posts<\/strong> and Pages<\/strong>. The Pro version will support all registered custom post types.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. In the Visibility<\/strong> tab, set \"Display On\" to Homepage Only<\/strong>. The ticker will only appear on the front page and blog index page.<\/p><\/dd>\n Go to the Animation<\/strong> tab in the admin dashboard. Use the speed slider to adjust from 5 seconds (fastest) to 100 seconds (slowest). The live preview updates instantly.<\/p><\/dd>\n In the Content<\/strong> tab, scroll down to the Label<\/strong> field. You can change it to anything like \"Breaking News\", \"Trending\", \"Headlines\", etc.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. The frontend uses vanilla JavaScript<\/strong> (no jQuery), GPU-accelerated CSS animations<\/strong> (using Very unlikely. All CSS uses the BEM naming convention<\/strong> with the Yes. In the Content<\/strong> tab, select Custom Alert<\/strong> as the source. Enter your alert text and an optional link URL.<\/p><\/dd>\n The plugin uses WordPress Transients to cache fetched post data for 10 minutes<\/strong>. When you save settings, the cache is automatically invalidated using a versioned cache key strategy \u2014 no raw SQL needed.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. The plugin uses the \ud83d\ude80 Why Choose Floating News Headline?<\/h3>\n\n
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wp_body_open<\/code>, or place it anywhere with a shortcode.<\/li>\naria-label<\/code> attributes.<\/li>\nfnh_settings<\/code> option key to the new floating_news_headline_settings<\/code> key.<\/li>\nfloating_news_headline_items<\/code> to programmatically modify ticker items before rendering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\ud83d\udd12 Security<\/h3>\n\n
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manage_options<\/code> capability checks<\/li>\nsanitize_text_field()<\/code>, sanitize_key()<\/code>, intval()<\/code>, and esc_url_raw()<\/code><\/li>\nesc_html()<\/code>, esc_attr()<\/code>, and esc_url()<\/code> in all templates<\/li>\nX-WP-Nonce<\/code> header<\/li>\n\ud83c\udfd7\ufe0f Architecture<\/h3>\n\n
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FloatingNewsHeadline<\/code><\/li>\nspl_autoload_register<\/code><\/li>\nActivator<\/code>, Adapter<\/code>, Admin<\/code>, Assets<\/code>, Deactivator<\/code>, Frontend<\/code>, REST_API<\/code>, Settings<\/code><\/li>\ncorporate.php<\/code>, dark.php<\/code>, pill.php<\/code> (BEM-structured HTML)<\/li>\n@wordpress\/scripts<\/code> with custom Webpack config for dual entry points (index.js<\/code> for admin, frontend.js<\/code> for public)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nAutomatic Installation<\/h4>\n\n
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\/wp-content\/plugins\/floating-news-headline<\/code>.<\/li>\nnpm install<\/code> to install dependencies.<\/li>\nnpm run build<\/code> to compile the React admin and frontend assets.<\/li>\nAfter Activation<\/h4>\n\n
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[fnh_ticker]<\/code> or [floating_news_headline_ticker]<\/code> in any post, page, or widget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
How do I enable\/disable the ticker?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I use it as a shortcode?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
[fnh_ticker]<\/code> or [floating_news_headline_ticker]<\/code> in any page, post, or text widget. When using shortcode placement, set the placement to \"Shortcode\" in the admin dashboard.<\/p><\/dd>\nDoes it support custom post types?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I show the ticker only on the homepage?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How do I change the ticker speed?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How do I change the label text?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will it slow down my website?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
transform: translateX()<\/code>), and WordPress Transient caching<\/strong> (10-minute cache). The total frontend footprint is under 40KB.<\/p><\/dd>\nDoes it conflict with my theme?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
fnh-<\/code> prefix, which prevents naming collisions. The ticker is injected via wp_body_open<\/code> or shortcode, both of which are standard WordPress hooks.<\/p><\/dd>\nCan I display a custom alert instead of posts?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How does caching work?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is the plugin translatable?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
floating-news-headline<\/code> text domain. All user-facing strings are wrapped in appropriate WordPress i18n functions. You can translate it using Loco Translate or any .po\/.mo editor.<\/p><\/dd>\nWhat hooks and filters are available?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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floating_news_headline_items<\/code> \u2014 Modify the array of ticker items before they are rendered. Receives $items<\/code> (array) and $settings<\/code> (array).<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n1.3.2 \u2014 2026-04-01<\/h4>\n\n
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