10 Best Vertical News Scroller Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Vertical News Scroller has 5,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Vertical News Scroller
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Ditty
Closest matchDitty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists
4.6 (106) 30,000+ active installsDitty offers a range of content display options, including its signature news ticker and customizable layouts.
Shares the news ticker tag on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated 15 days ago.
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4.6 (122) 50,000+ active installsControl how your WordPress posts, pages, WooCommerce products, and custom post types look when shared on Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Slac …
About 10 times the installs, last updated July 29, 2026.
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WP RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, Feed to Post, Autoblogging, AI Content
4.5 (562) 40,000+ active installsThe #1 WordPress RSS aggregator to quickly import RSS feeds, build a news aggregator, and for easy autoblogging.
About 8 times the installs, last updated 3 days ago.
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4.7 (329) 30,000+ active installsPodcasting the way it's meant to be. No mess, no fuss - just you and your content taking over the world.
About 6 times the installs, last updated 26 days ago.
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4.3 (113) 20,000+ active installsSend images to RSS instantly for free. Output blog or WooCommerce photos to Mailchimp RSS email campaigns, ActiveCampaign, Hubspot, Feedly and more.
About 4 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator
4.6 (361) 40,000+ active installsThe most powerful WordPress RSS aggregator, helping you curate content, autoblog, import RSS & display unlimited RSS feeds within a few minutes.
About 8 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler
4.5 (2,097) 50,000+ active installsAutomatically share and schedule your WordPress content on top social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and more.
About 10 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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PPWP – Password Protect Pages
4.7 (270) 30,000+ active installsPassword protect WordPress pages and posts by user roles or with multiple passwords; protect your entire website with a single password.
About 6 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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GN Publisher: Google News Compatible RSS Feeds
4.9 (29) 20,000+ active installsGN Publisher makes RSS feeds that comply with the Google News RSS Feed Technical Requirements for including your site in the Google News.
About 4 times the installs, last updated July 28, 2026.
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Spectra Blocks – AI Website Builder for the Block Editor
4.4 (27) 40,000+ active installsBuild a full website with AI, then edit every block natively in Gutenberg. No new editor to learn, no lock-in.
About 8 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
Switching from Vertical News Scroller: common questions
What is the best alternative to Vertical News Scroller?
Ditty is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 30,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Vertical News Scroller alternative has the most users?
Social Preview and Open Graph Tags, with 50,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Vertical News Scroller alternative is rated highest?
Seriously Simple Podcasting, rated 4.7 out of 5 by 329 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Vertical News Scroller alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Vertical News Scroller score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Vertical News Scroller on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Ditty is the closest match to Vertical News Scroller by the data we track, and Social Preview and Open Graph Tags has the widest reach with 50,000+ active installs. WP RSS Aggregator shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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