Description
WPYog News is a modern WordPress news and announcement plugin designed to help businesses, schools, organizations, startups, agencies, and publishers create clean and professional news sections directly inside WordPress.
Built from real-world business workflows, the plugin provides a lightweight and flexible way to manage company updates, announcements, featured articles, press releases, and curated external news without relying on bloated magazine themes or complicated page-builder setups.
Whether you are publishing company announcements, school notices, cybersecurity updates, healthcare news, product launches, industry articles, curated external news, or digital transformation insights — WPYog News helps you create organized and engaging news sections that are simple to manage and beautiful to browse.
Live Demo
Key Features
- Modern List and Card layouts
- Responsive news displays
- Shortcode generator
- Category and tag support
- Featured images
- Source attribution support
- External article linking
- Pagination support
- Mobile responsive layouts
- Lightweight and fast
- Easy content management
- Elementor-friendly
Modern News Layouts
WPYog News includes two responsive display layouts.
List Layout — Perfect for company updates, announcements, editorial/news websites, blogs, and industry news feeds.
Card Layout — Ideal for featured news sections, homepage highlights, magazine-style displays, and modern content showcases.
Smart Shortcode Generator
Generate custom shortcodes directly from the admin panel without coding. Control layout type, categories, pagination, excerpt length, sorting order, date visibility, source visibility, and column layouts.
[wpyog_news layout="card" columns="3" limit="9"]
External News & Source Attribution
WPYog News supports curated external news workflows with external article URLs, source name display, source website links, favicon/logo support, and proper source attribution. Perfect for curated industry news, cybersecurity updates, compliance news, digital transformation articles, and technology feeds.
All Shortcode Attributes
Attribute
Values
Default
layout
list | card
list
limit
any integer
10
category
category ID(s), comma-sep
(all)
show_date
true | false
true
show_excerpt
true | false
true
excerpt_length
integer (words)
20
show_source
true | false
true
order
DESC | ASC
DESC
orderby
date | title | rand
date
columns
2 | 3 | 4
3
pagination
true | false
true
pagination_type
numeric | prev-next
numeric
extra_class
CSS class string
(none)
Use Cases
- Company News & Announcements — business updates, product launches, press releases
- School & Educational Notices — school updates, event notices, circulars
- Cybersecurity & Technology News — curated industry news feeds with external article support
- Healthcare & Medical Updates — healthcare notices, awareness articles, medical industry updates
- Corporate Blogs & Editorial Sections — lightweight editorial sections without magazine theme complexity
- Curated Industry News Portals — aggregate external news while properly crediting sources
More Plugins from WPYog
- WPYog Team — Team showcase plugin
- WPYog Docs — Document management plugin
Built by Poppins Digital.
Screenshots
Front-end list layout with date, excerpt, source credit, and Read More button. 
Front-end card layout with Load More button. 
News item editor — External Link and Source Details metaboxes. 
Shortcode Generator admin page. 
Getting Started admin page.
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- WPYog News
Installation
- Upload the
wpyog-newsfolder to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
- Go to WPYog News Add News to add your first news item.
- Use WPYog News Shortcode Generator to build and copy your shortcode.
- Paste the shortcode into any page or post.
FAQ
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Does WPYog News support multiple layouts?
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Yes. The plugin supports a List layout and a Card layout.
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Can I display external news articles?
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Yes. WPYog News supports external article URLs and source attribution.
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Can I display source names and favicons?
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Yes. You can display the source name, source URL, and source favicon/logo for curated news articles.
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Does the plugin include a shortcode generator?
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Yes. WPYog News includes a built-in shortcode generator for easy layout customization without coding.
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Can I filter news by category?
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Yes. News posts can be grouped and filtered using categories. Use the
categoryattribute with the category ID:[wpyog_news category="5"]. Category IDs are shown in WPYog News Categories. -
Is the plugin mobile responsive?
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Yes. All layouts are optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
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Does WPYog News work with Elementor?
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Yes. WPYog News works with Elementor and most modern WordPress themes. A native Gutenberg block is also included.
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Is coding knowledge required?
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No. The plugin is designed for easy management directly from the WordPress dashboard.
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How do external links work?
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When editing a news item, add a URL in the External Link field. The news title and Read More button will then link to that external URL (opens in a new tab) instead of the internal news page.
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Does the card layout support pagination?
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The card layout uses a Load More button via AJAX instead of traditional pagination.
Reviews
There are no reviews for this plugin.
Contributors & Developers
“WPYog News” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Translate “WPYog News” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.0.5
- Updated CSS: .wpyog-card-cats a padding updated to 10px.
- Updated CSS: .wpyog-attr-table thead th color now uses !important to prevent theme override.
1.0.4
- Fixed: Contributor username corrected to wpyog (WordPress.org account).
- Fixed: Removed $_GET[‘revision’] from updated_messages() — replaced with a static string to eliminate nonce requirement.
- Fixed: Pagination output now wrapped in wp_kses_post() for proper escaping.
1.0.3
- Fixed: Added missing translators comments to all i18n strings with placeholders.
- Fixed: Replaced deprecated rand() with wp_rand().
- Fixed: Replaced deprecated current_time( ‘timestamp’ ) with time().
- Fixed: Added wp_unslash() to all $_GET/$_POST reads missing it.
- Fixed: Removed unnecessary load_plugin_textdomain() call (auto-loaded since WP 4.6).
- Updated: Tested up to WordPress 6.9.
- Added: languages/wpyog-news.pot translation template.
1.0.2
- Fixed: Previous/Next navigation on single news pages now works even when posts have no category assigned (was using $in_same_term which returned null for uncategorised posts).
- Fixed: Navigation filtered to wpyog_news post type only — won’t accidentally link to regular blog posts.
- Added: Empty nav placeholder keeps two-column layout balanced when only one adjacent post exists.
- Updated CSS: .wpyog-item-title font-size 1.4rem, font-weight bold.
- Updated CSS: .wpyog-pagination page numbers now have background #fff.
1.0.1
- Fixed: Admin sidebar icon now uses WPYog custom font via SVG data URI.
- Fixed: Load More AJAX — empty category bug and jQuery data() attribute reading.
- Fixed: Post slug changed from “news” to “latest-news” to avoid conflicts with other plugins.
- Fixed: Category taxonomy slug updated to “news-category”.
- Added: Previous/Next navigation on single news detail pages.
- Improved: Modern card and list CSS — hover effects, image zoom, category pills, indigo Read More button.
- Changed: News title uses h2 instead of h3 for better semantic hierarchy.
1.0.0
- Initial release.