WordPress Vertical News Scroller Pro 2.38

WordPress Vertical News Scroller Pro is a high-performance plugin designed to display scrolling news, announcements, or latest blog posts in a vertical marquee or slider format. It is a favorite for news portals, stock market sites, and community blogs that need to display a high volume of information in a compact sidebar or footer area.

Unlike basic free versions, the Pro version allows for advanced styling and automated content pulling.

## Key Pro Features

The Pro version adds significant automation and design control that the free version lacks:

Automatic News Sourcing: You can set any existing WordPress Post or Page to automatically appear as a news item. You simply check a box in the post editor, and it joins the scroll.

Two Scrolling Modes: * Modern: Uses a smooth jQuery-based transition.

Classic: Uses a traditional marquee-style continuous scroll.

Category Filtering: Create multiple "News Groups" or categories. You can display "Breaking News" in the header and "Tech Updates" in the sidebar simultaneously.

Thumbnails & Media: Full support for Featured Images, allowing you to show a small preview image alongside the news title.

Custom Styling: Granular control over font size, colors, scroll speed, and container height/width directly from the admin dashboard.

Shortcode & Widget Support: Highly flexible placement via shortcodes like [print_vertical_news_scroll] with parameters to override global settings.

### Technical Details

Responsive Design: The scroller automatically adjusts to mobile screens, ensuring the text remains legible on phones.

Multi-site Compatible: Works across WordPress multisite networks.

Performance: Built to be lightweight, typically loading less than 20kb of additional scripts to maintain fast page speeds.

Open Behavior: Options to open news links in the same window or a new tab.

### How to Implement It

Installation: After purchasing the Pro ZIP file, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload and activate it.

Add News: You can either create manual news items under the "Manage News" menu or go to an existing post and check the "Add this post as news" box.

Display:

Widget: Go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the Vertical News Scroll widget into your sidebar.

Shortcode: Paste the shortcode into any page or post. Example:

[print_vertical_news_scroll maxitem="5" speed="50" height="250px"]

Custom CSS: If you need specific styling (like a border or unique hover effect), the Pro version provides a custom CSS box in the settings to override default themes.

Would you like me to help you generate a custom CSS snippet to match this scroller to your specific theme colors?