WP Top News is a flexible WordPress news plugin that helps you create, organize and display news articles in beautiful, responsive layouts.

Create your own news directly from your WordPress dashboard and display it anywhere on your website using simple shortcodes.

Whether you are building a news portal, online magazine, newspaper website, blog, organization website or a dedicated news section, WP Top News gives you multiple ways to present your content.

With the free version, you can start with clean Grid and List layouts.

Upgrade to Pro to unlock advanced layouts including Editorial Grid, Modern List, Breaking News Ticker, Homepage Hero, Featured News Slider and RSS Feed Display.

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📰 Multiple News Layouts

WP Top News gives you multiple professional ways to present your news content.

✅ Free layouts:

Basic Grid
Basic List

✅ Pro layouts:

Editorial Grid – magazine-style editorial layout
Modern List – clean horizontal news layout
Breaking News Ticker – multiple ticker styles
Homepage Hero – highlight important stories on your homepage
Featured News Slider – showcase selected news in a responsive slider
RSS Feed Display – display RSS content using ticker and widget options

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✨ Create Your Own News

Create and manage your news directly from the WordPress dashboard.

✔ You can:

Create unlimited news items
Organize news with categories
Display news by category
Activate or deactivate news items
Control the number of news displayed
Choose how news is ordered
Control grid columns
Show or hide descriptions
Enable pagination
Open news details in the same or new tab
Support RTL layouts

🎨 Beautiful News Layouts

Choose the layout that fits your website and content.

🌟 Free

✅ Basic Grid

Display your news in a clean and responsive grid layout.

Control the number of columns and other display options using the plugin settings or shortcode.

✅ Basic List

Display your news in a simple and readable list layout with featured images, titles and descriptions.

✨ Pro

✅ Editorial Grid

Create a magazine-style editorial layout with large featured images, categories, titles and descriptions.

✅ Modern List

Display news in a clean modern horizontal layout with large images and article information.

✅ Breaking News Ticker

Highlight important stories using multiple ticker styles:

Marquee
Horizontal
Typewriter
Vertical

Customize ticker labels, icons, speed and styling.

✅ Homepage Hero

Create a prominent hero news section for your homepage and highlight important stories.

✅ Featured News Slider

Display selected or featured news using a responsive slider carousel.

✅ RSS Feed Display

Display RSS feed content using ticker and widget-related options.

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⚡ Powerful Shortcodes

WP Top News includes shortcode options that give you control over how your news is displayed.

✔ Display news in a grid:

[wtn_news layout=”grid”]

✔ Display news in a list:

[wtn_news layout=”list”]

✔ Display news from a category:

[wtn_news layout=”list” category=”sports”]

✔ Hide descriptions:

[wtn_news layout=”list” description=”hide”]

✔ Control grid columns:

[wtn_news layout=”grid” column=”2″]

You can combine shortcode options to create different news sections throughout your website.

📱 Responsive Design

WP Top News layouts are designed to work across desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

🌍 RTL Support

WP Top News includes RTL support for websites using right-to-left languages.

🌐 Translation Ready

WP Top News is translation-ready and includes a POT file for localization.

💎 WP Top News Pro

Take your news website further with WP Top News Pro.

✔ Pro features include:

Editorial Grid layout
Modern List layout
Breaking News Ticker
Homepage Hero section
Featured News Slider
RSS Feed Display
Advanced shortcode options
Layout customization
Ticker customization and styling
Multiple ticker styles
Ticker speed controls
Ticker icon customization
Additional display options

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🚀 Why WP Top News?

Build a complete news portal in WordPress
Create and manage your own news
Multiple professional news layouts
Free Grid and List layouts
Advanced Pro layouts
Breaking news ticker styles
Homepage hero section
Featured news slider
RSS feed display
Category-based news display
Powerful shortcode options
Responsive design
RTL support
No coding required

External Services

WP Top News allows you to optionally display content from RSS feeds when the RSS Feed Display feature is used.

When an RSS feed URL is configured, your website may connect to the external RSS feed provider to retrieve feed content.

The availability, accuracy and content of an external RSS feed are controlled by the respective RSS feed provider.

Please make sure you have permission to use content from any external RSS feed.

WP Top News also uses Freemius for optional plugin licensing, account management, premium upgrades and related services.

Freemius may process information required for licensing, updates, purchases and account management when you interact with Freemius-powered features.

For more information, please see the Freemius privacy information:
https://freemius.com/privacy/data-practices/

Support

Need help?

Visit the WordPress.org support forum or contact us through our website.

We are happy to help with bugs, questions and suggestions.

WP Top News — Build a Complete News Portal in WordPress

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