WordPress News: the free AIFORYA plugin

Publish your news in a dedicated space, separate from your blog.

AIFORYA News adds a complete "News" space to your site to publish, organize and highlight your information. All local, with no configuration, no external service and no API key - and free, with no time limit.

• Free and complete: published on WordPress.org, no crippled features.
• Local: the core of the plugin makes no network calls.
• Lightweight: scrolling ticker in native CSS/JS, with no external library that would slow down your site.

Why a separate "News" space?

Mixing your press releases, announcements and in-depth articles into the same post feed blurs your message: readers can no longer tell what's recent information and what's reference content. A dedicated post type solves this problem. Your news has its own archive, its own categories, its own sorting by date - and, above all, it can be highlighted wherever you want without polluting your blog.

As a bonus, each full-page news item automatically emits NewsArticle markup (schema.org). That's the signal search engines look for to identify and promote dated information.

What the plugin does

• Dedicated post type - a "News" space separate from your posts, with title, content, image, date and a "source" field.
• News categories - a dedicated taxonomy to classify and filter your news.
• Gutenberg blocks - "Latest News" and "News Ticker", with visual settings (number, category, layout).
• Shortcodes - [aiforya_news] (list: number, category, layout) and [aiforya_news_ticker] (scrolling ticker).
• Widget - "Latest News" in any widget area.
• Scrolling ticker - a horizontal feed in native CSS and JavaScript, with no external library. Adjustable speed, pause on hover, respects "prefers-reduced-motion".
• Archive and sorting by date - a dedicated archive for your news, sorted by publication date.
• Structured data - schema.org NewsArticle markup (JSON-LD) automatically added to each full-page news item.

How it does better than competing free plugins

	AIFORYA News	Common free plugins
NewsArticle structured data	Automatic and included	Rare or reserved for paid versions
Scrolling ticker	Included, native CSS/JS, accessible	Often via a heavy library
Display modes	Block + shortcode + widget + ticker	Usually a single mode
Privacy	Core 100% local, no network calls	Reliance on an external service
API key / account	None	Sometimes required

Installation in 2 minutes

1. Download the plugin from this page (or install it from WordPress.org).
2. Activate it from the Plugins menu.
3. A News menu appears: click Add to create your first news item, then display it via the block, the [aiforya_news] shortcode, the widget, or the [aiforya_news_ticker] ticker.

That's it: your news is online, with the NewsArticle markup generated automatically.