Best news plugins for WordPress
The most popular news plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. XML Sitemap & Google News leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Blog Designer Pack (30K+) and GN Publisher (20K+). All 264 plugins tagged “news” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 news plugins
- 1.
XML Sitemap & Google NewsThe most installed news plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 85 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 2.
Blog Designer Pack30K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 79 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 3.
GN Publisher20K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 29 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 4.
Super RSS Reader9K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 67 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 5.
Announce from the Dashboard7K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 6 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 6.
Magazine Blocks6K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 11 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 7.
Publish To Apple News4K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 25 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 8.
Flex Posts2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 24 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
Live News2K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 10.
Agent Image News2K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
All 264 plugins tagged “news”
XML Sitemap & Google News
#323by Rolf Allard van Hagen5 months ago
Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.4(85)
- Downloads
- 580/day
Blog Designer Pack
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,058by InfornWeb28 days ago
News & Blog plugin for post grid, post slider, post carousel, post filter, masonry, ticker & list category posts using shortcode, Elementor & Divi.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(79)
- Downloads
- 255/day
GN Publisher
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,341by GNPublisher4 days ago
GN Publisher makes RSS feeds that comply with the Google News RSS Feed Technical Requirements for including your site in the Google News.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.9(29)
- Downloads
- 132/day
Super RSS Reader
Up in the last 7 days:5#2,187by vaakash19 days ago
Display any RSS feed(s) in widget with news ticker effect in multiple tabs, thumbnails, customizable color themes and more.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.6(67)
- Downloads
- 107/day
Announce from the Dashboard
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,645by gqevu6bsiz2 years ago
Announcement to users on the Dashboard.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 19/day
Magazine Blocks
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,700by BlockArt11 days ago
A collection of dynamic post blocks to quickly build stunning news, magazine, and blog websites.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.9(11)
- Downloads
- 126/day
Publish To Apple News
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,340by Alley17 days ago
Enables journalistic outlets already approved by Apple News to send content directly to the app.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 3.8(25)
- Downloads
- 644/day
Flex Posts
Down in the last 7 days:11#4,240by Tajam2 months ago
Show your posts with thumbnails in flexible, responsive layouts. Works as a sidebar widget or a block in the editor.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(24)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Live News
Down in the last 7 days:42#4,448by DAEXT1 year ago
Generate a news ticker to communicate the latest updates, including financial news, weather warnings, election results, sports scores, and more.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 16/day
Agent Image News
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,612by Agent Image12 years ago
Get the latest real estate Internet marketing news, website advice and tech tips from Agent Image.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Liveblog
Up in the last 7 days:7#4,869by Automattic1 month ago
Empowers website owners to provide rich and engaging live event coverage to a large, distributed audience.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 2.9(15)
- Downloads
- 58/day
News PhotoCard Pro
Up in the last 7 days:11#6,372by Rasedul Haque Rumi1 year ago
Create customizable 1080×1080 photo cards from posts with templates, Elementor widget, and shortcode support.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 22/day
WP Top News
Down in the last 7 days:15#7,570by Hossni Mubarak12 days ago
Build a WordPress news portal with beautiful news layouts, breaking news tickers, featured sliders, and homepage hero sections.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Gutenverse News
Down in the last 7 days:25#7,606by Jegstudio2 months ago
Build news websites, blog and magazine layouts with WordPress news blocks, post grids, post sliders, archive blocks, and a news ticker.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 18/day
WP Notes Widget
Down in the last 7 days:8#7,984by Steve Puddick3 years ago
Display important, short, time sensitive text and media in a 'sticky note' style. Auto Tweet your notes.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.6(12)
- Downloads
- 0/day
News Manager
Up in the last 7 days:7#8,194by dFactory10 years ago
Every CMS site needs a news section. News Manager allows you add, manage and display news, date archives, AJAX Calendar, Categories, Tags and more.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.9(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Rename default post Labels
Down in the last 7 days:16#8,692by AboZain Albanna6 years ago
A simple, lightweight WordPress plugin Rename your Default Post labels to custom name in admin menu
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Nooz
Down in the last 7 days:34#8,994by mightydigital1 month ago
Simplified press release and media coverage management for websites.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Stock Market News
Down in the last 7 days:10#9,528by Stockdio2 months ago
WordPress plugin and widget for displaying a list of stock news for a given public company, available in several languages.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 7/day
NewsPlugin
Up in the last 7 days:24#9,737by newsplugin.com5 years ago
The ultimate FREE news plugin for WordPress. Create custom newsfeeds and watch the fresh relevant news headlines appear on your website.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.3(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Oshirase Ichiran
Up in the last 7 days:317#10,305by Recolon3 months ago
Display a news/notice list anywhere on your site using a simple shortcode. Designed for Japanese WordPress sites.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Site Announcements
Up in the last 7 days:16#10,408by Edward7 years ago
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 …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP News
Down in the last 7 days:37#10,796by HT Plugins5 months ago
WP News is a elementor 14+ addons, 6+ WordPress Default widgets For WordPress.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 2.5(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Jquery news ticker
Up in the last 7 days:62#10,949by gopiplus@hotmail.com2 years ago
Jquery news ticker plugin brings a lightweight, flexible and easy to configure ticker plugin to site. This plugin adds scrolling horizontal tickers.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Elementor Post Grid
Up in the last 7 days:217#11,549by themeansar25 days ago
Build News, Magazine and Blog websites with Elementor. Create responsive Post Grids, Featured Posts, Sliders, Carousels, Theme Builder templates and W …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Beamer
Up in the last 7 days:16#12,156by Beamer3 years ago
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 …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Unlimited Photos
Up in the last 7 days:18#12,192by Kevin Batdorf2 months ago
Search from millions of stock photos, textures, wallpapers, and more.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP fade in text news
Down in the last 7 days:61#12,622by gopiplus3 years ago
This plugin will create the fadein and out effect in the text. It is an superb excellent way to transition between announcements.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Rename Post To News
Down in the last 7 days:74#12,852by urre10 years ago
Renames the build in post type Post to News
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Republication Tracker Tool
Down in the last 7 days:445#12,890by Automattic10 days ago
Adds a widget to allow readers to easily acquire Creative-Commons-licensed HTML of articles to facilitate embedding posts on external sites.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 23/day
Economic & Market News
Up in the last 7 days:16#13,191by Stockdio2 months ago
Displays a list of economic and general stock markets news, available in more than 20 languages and covering over 40 countries.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day
Wp Blog News
Up in the last 7 days:107#13,296by nayon462 years ago
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 …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lightweight Newscast XML Sitemap For Google News
Down in the last 7 days:134#13,372by Gunjan Jaswal5 days ago
Generates a Google News compatible XML sitemap for WordPress sites to be submitted to Google Search Console for better news content indexing.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Audioburst Podcast Highlights Player
Down in the last 7 days:44#14,076by galklein5 years ago
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.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple Notice Board
Down in the last 7 days:213#14,107by Inu Etc1 year ago
A simple and lightweight plugin to display important notices on your WordPress site using a shortcode.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
News
Down in the last 7 days:27#14,422by smplug-in4 years ago
This plugin will show latest news from Mashable
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
FeedCentral Connector
Down in the last 7 days:23#15,481by Tech Land16 days ago
Connects this WordPress site to a FeedCentral instance and syncs articles into real WordPress Posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Snowball
Down in the last 7 days:34#15,536by thomaspark7 years ago
Snowball makes it easy for journalists and bloggers to create immersive articles using multimedia, data visualizations, and interactive widgets.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DaazSync
Up in the last 7 days:67#15,819by daazlabs1 month ago
Add unlimited RSS/Atom feeds and display beautiful news sections anywhere on your site — 5 layouts, shortcodes, auto-import. No coding required.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Latest News
Down in the last 7 days:62#15,894by jamespiggot15 years ago
This WordPress plugin provides facilities to write Latest News items as custom posts and then to output them using template tags.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
News-Parser
Down in the last 7 days:116#16,356by Evgeniy Zalevskiy1 year ago
News-parser WordPress Plugin
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Auto Summarize Post Content
Down in the last 7 days:51#17,116by blogvii2 years ago
Auto-summarize content and display it at the top or bottom of the post.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
News CPT
Up in the last 7 days:8#17,137by vanjwilson12 years ago
A quick, easy way to add an extensible News custom post type to Wordpress.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bangla Converter (Bijoy To Unicode, Unicode To Bijoy)
Down in the last 7 days:83#17,544by Rasedul Haque Rumi4 years ago
This converter will help you to convert your bangla bijoy Ascii text to convert Unicode text or Unicode text to convert bijoy Ascii text
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Google News Keywords from Tags
Up in the last 7 days:14#18,491by Slobodan Manić12 years ago
Google News Keywords from Tags uses your post tags to insert Google News keywords meta tag to your posts.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rootitr
Down in the last 7 days:150#18,508by Nima Saberi8 years ago
به راحتی زمینههای دلخواه را کنترل، بروزرسانی و فراخوانی کنید ...
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
AT News Scroller
Up in the last 7 days:147#18,933by Abhash Tech5 years ago
A simple plugin to pull latest post from certain category as News ticker.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
XML News Sitemap Generator
Down in the last 7 days:119#19,027by Harshit Kumar5 months ago
News Sitemap Generator - Automatically generate a Google News sitemap with zero configuration.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPYog News
Up in the last 7 days:23#19,056by WPYog1 month ago
Create modern news sections, announcements, and article showcases with List, Card, Carousel, and Ticker displays — all without coding.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bitcoin News
Up in the last 7 days:31#19,399by bmgspain1 year ago
The Bitcoin News plugin for WordPress. Create custom Bitcoin News and watch the fresh relevant news headlines appear on your wordpress website or blog …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day