WPYog News

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 View 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

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Built by Poppins Digital.

1.0.6

• Fixed: .wpyog-single-wrap max-width set to 900px — content column no longer stretches edge-to-edge on wide screens.
• Fixed: Single news featured image changed to max-width: 100% / object-fit: contain / margin: 0 auto — displays at natural proportions, centered in the container.

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.