Category · recomputed daily
news plugins
238 plugins in the directory carry the news tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
238
plugins
206,040+
combined reach
46
released in 90 days
66%
quiet 18 months+
1
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Aug 2026 | Unlimited Photos – Unsplash images | 200+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| XML Sitemap & Google News Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap. | 100,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 months ago |
| Blog Designer Pack – Blog, Post Grid, Post Slider, Post Carousel, Category Post, News News & Blog plugin for post grid, post slider, post carousel, post filter, masonry, ticker & list category posts using shortcode, Elementor & Divi. | 30,000+ | 4.7★ | 11 days ago |
| GN Publisher: Google News Compatible RSS Feeds GN Publisher makes RSS feeds that comply with the Google News RSS Feed Technical Requirements for including your site in the Google News. | 20,000+ | 4.9★ | 1 month ago |
| AF Companion – Starter Sites, Speed Booster & Growth Suite for Professional Publishing One-Click Starter Sites, Performance Optimization, and Publisher Growth Tools | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 10 days ago |
| Super RSS Reader – Add attractive RSS Feed Widget Display any RSS feed(s) in widget with news ticker effect in multiple tabs, thumbnails, customizable color themes and more. | 9,000+ | 4.6★ | 1 month ago |
| Announce from the Dashboard Announcement to users on the Dashboard. | 7,000+ | 4.3★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Magazine Blocks – Blog Designer, Magazine & Newspaper Website Builder, Page Builder with Posts Blocks, Post Grid A collection of dynamic post blocks to quickly build stunning news, magazine, and blog websites. | 6,000+ | 4.9★ | 17 days ago |
| Publish To Apple News Enables journalistic outlets already approved by Apple News to send content directly to the app. | 4,000+ | 3.8★ | 1 month ago |
| Flex Posts – Responsive Posts Block Show your posts with thumbnails in flexible, responsive layouts. Works as a sidebar widget or a block in the editor. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 17 days ago |
| Agent Image News Get the latest real estate Internet marketing news, website advice and tech tips from Agent Image. | 2,000+ | — | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Liveblog Empowers website owners to provide rich and engaging live event coverage to a large, distributed audience. | 2,000+ | 2.9★ | 3 months ago |
| Live News – Responsive News Ticker Generate a news ticker to communicate the latest updates, including financial news, weather warnings, election results, sports scores, and more. | 2,000+ | — | 16 months ago |
| News PhotoCard Pro Create customizable 1080×1080 photo cards from posts with templates, Elementor widget, and shortcode support. | 1,000+ | — | 10 months ago |
| Gutenverse News – News Blocks for Blog & Magazine Sites Build news websites, blog and magazine layouts with WordPress news blocks, post grids, post sliders, archive blocks, and a news ticker. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| TopNewsWp – Display Tikcer News, RSS Feed Widget and Many More Create and display news in various layouts like Grid, List, Ticker etc. from internal, external and rss sources. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 26 days ago |
| WP Notes Widget Display important, short, time sensitive text and media in a 'sticky note' style. Auto Tweet your notes. | 700+ | 4.6★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| News Manager Every CMS site needs a news section. News Manager allows you add, manage and display news, date archives, AJAX Calendar, Categories, Tags and more. | 600+ | 3.9★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Rename default post Labels A simple, lightweight WordPress plugin Rename your Default Post labels to custom name in admin menu | 600+ | 5.0★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Nooz Simplified press release and media coverage management for websites. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| NewsPlugin The ultimate FREE news plugin for WordPress. Create custom newsfeeds and watch the fresh relevant news headlines appear on your website. | 400+ | 3.3★ | 5 years ago · quiet |
| Stock Market News WordPress plugin and widget for displaying a list of stock news for a given public company, available in several languages. | 400+ | 3.7★ | 11 days ago |
| Jquery news ticker Jquery news ticker plugin brings a lightweight, flexible and easy to configure ticker plugin to site. This plugin adds scrolling horizontal tickers. | 300+ | 4.5★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Site Announcements Site Announcements allows you to broadcast site-wide messages to your visitors, as well as set custom parameters for the messages, such as the backgro … | 300+ | 4.5★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP News – WordPress News / Magazine Plugin WP News is a elementor 14+ addons, 6+ WordPress Default widgets For WordPress. | 300+ | 2.5★ | 3 months ago |
| Elementor Post Grid – News, Magazine & Blog Builder – Ansar Elements Build News, Magazine and Blog websites with Elementor. Create responsive Post Grids, Featured Posts, Sliders, Carousels, Theme Builder templates and W … | 200+ | 5.0★ | 29 days ago |
| Beamer – newsfeed and push notifications Beamer is a smart and easy-to-use notification center and changelog that will help you announce important news, latest products, special offers and mo … | 200+ | 4.7★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Economic & Market News Displays a list of economic and general stock markets news, available in more than 20 languages and covering over 40 countries. | 200+ | — | 11 days ago |
| Rename Post To News Renames the build in post type Post to News | 200+ | — | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Republication Tracker Tool Adds a widget to allow readers to easily acquire Creative-Commons-licensed HTML of articles to facilitate embedding posts on external sites. | 200+ | — | 20 days ago |
| Unlimited Photos – Unsplash images Search from millions of stock photos, textures, wallpapers, and more. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 20 days ago |
| WP fade in text news This plugin will create the fadein and out effect in the text. It is an superb excellent way to transition between announcements. | 200+ | 4.7★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Audioburst Podcast Highlights Player Add short-form talk-audio to your blog or website. Highlight your own podcast or enrich blog post with bursts of relevant short-form audio content. | 100+ | — | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Auto Summarize Post Content Auto-summarize content and display it at the top or bottom of the post. | 100+ | 3.0★ | 23 months ago · quiet |
| Latest News This WordPress plugin provides facilities to write Latest News items as custom posts and then to output them using template tags. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 15 years ago · quiet |
| Lightweight Newscast XML Sitemap For Google News Generates a Google News compatible XML sitemap for WordPress sites to be submitted to Google Search Console for better news content indexing. | 100+ | 4.0★ | yesterday |
| News-Parser News-parser WordPress Plugin | 100+ | 5.0★ | 16 months ago |
| News This plugin will show latest news from Mashable | 100+ | 5.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Simple Notice Board – Easy Announcements and Notices A simple and lightweight plugin to display important notices on your WordPress site using a shortcode. | 100+ | — | 12 months ago |
| Snowball Snowball makes it easy for journalists and bloggers to create immersive articles using multimedia, data visualizations, and interactive widgets. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 7 years ago · quiet |
| Wp Blog News With Wp Blog News it's very easy to implement a Blog News in WordPress.Awesome Responsive Blog News WordPress has been created to display Blog Ne … | 100+ | 5.0★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| News CPT A quick, easy way to add an extensible News custom post type to Wordpress. | 90+ | 5.0★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Oshirase Ichiran Display a news/notice list anywhere on your site using a simple shortcode. Designed for Japanese WordPress sites. | 90+ | — | 2 months ago |
| Bangla Converter (Bijoy To Unicode, Unicode To Bijoy) This converter will help you to convert your bangla bijoy Ascii text to convert Unicode text or Unicode text to convert bijoy Ascii text | 80+ | 1.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Rootitr به راحتی زمینههای دلخواه را کنترل، بروزرسانی و فراخوانی کنید ... | 80+ | 5.0★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| AT News Scroller A simple plugin to pull latest post from certain category as News ticker. | 70+ | — | 4.5 years ago · quiet |
| Bitcoin News The Bitcoin News plugin for WordPress. Create custom Bitcoin News and watch the fresh relevant news headlines appear on your wordpress website or blog … | 70+ | 5.0★ | 17 months ago |
| DaazSync – RSS News Aggregator Add unlimited RSS/Atom feeds and display beautiful news sections anywhere on your site — 5 layouts, shortcodes, auto-import. No coding required. | 70+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| XML News Sitemap Generator News Sitemap Generator - Automatically generate a Google News sitemap with zero configuration. | 70+ | — | 3 months ago |
| Google News Keywords from Tags Google News Keywords from Tags uses your post tags to insert Google News keywords meta tag to your posts. | 70+ | 5.0★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Press, News, Events Create custom post types for press releases, references to external news stories, and events. | 60+ | — | 13 years ago · quiet |
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