WP News and Scrolling Widgets

Name: WP News and Scrolling Widgets
Rating: 4.4
Author: Essential Plugin

A quick, easy way to add an News custom post type, News widget, vertical scrolling news widget to WordPress. Also work with Gutenberg shortcode block.

v5.0.6

Essential Plugin

Updated 17.11.2025, 07:01:00

Scanned 17.11.2025, 08:30:03

free-scrolling-news-wordpress-plugin main-news-page-scrolling wordpress-horizontal-news-plugin-widget wordpress-news-plugin wordpress-vertical-news-plugin-widget

Score

175

Errors

129

Warnings

10K

Installs

Security167

General61

Repo72

Performance4

Accessibility0

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Issues Details

304 issues found in latest scan

	Code	Message	Location	Category
ERROR	`WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped`	All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$after_widget'.	`204:14`	Security
ERROR	`WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped`	All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '__'.	`27:70`	Security
ERROR	`WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped`	All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found 'WPNW_PLUGIN_LINK_UNLOCK'.	`27:253`	Security
ERROR	`WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction`	All output should be run through an escaping function (like esc_html_e() or esc_attr_e()), found '_e'.	`50:104`	Security
ERROR	`WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound`	Hook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "sp_news_registered_post_type_args".	`69:56`	Plugin Repo
ERROR	`WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment`	A function call to __() with texts containing placeholders was found, but was not accompanied by a "translators:" comment on the line above to clarify the meaning of the placeholders.	`127:23`	General
ERROR	`WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch`	Mismatched text domain. Expected 'sp-news-and-widget' but got 'espbw'.	`68:172`	General
ERROR	`WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch`	Mismatched text domain. Expected 'sp-news-and-widget' but got 'espbw'.	`69:156`	General
ERROR	`WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch`	Mismatched text domain. Expected 'sp-news-and-widget' but got 'espbw'.	`70:160`	General
ERROR	`WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch`	Mismatched text domain. Expected 'sp-news-and-widget' but got 'espbw'.	`75:192`	General

304 total row(s)

External Connections

Hosts referenced or contacted during the latest scan (runtime attempts + static URLs)

Hosts: 7Runtime: 0Static: 21

Source	Host	URL	Plugin File / Stack	Captured
Static	github.com	https://github.com/kasp3r/vTicker	assets/js/jquery.newstape.js:5	11/17/2025, 8:30:11 AM
Static	demo.essentialplugin.com	https://demo.essentialplugin.com/prodemo/news-plugin-pro/	includes/admin/supports/blocks/gutenberg-block.php:54	11/17/2025, 8:30:11 AM
Static	demo.essentialplugin.com	https://demo.essentialplugin.com/sp-news/	includes/admin/supports/blocks/gutenberg-block.php:55	11/17/2025, 8:30:11 AM
Static	docs.essentialplugin.com	https://docs.essentialplugin.com/wp-news-and-scrolling-widgets/	includes/admin/wpnw-how-it-work.php:91	11/17/2025, 8:30:11 AM
Static	demo.essentialplugin.com	https://demo.essentialplugin.com/sp-news/	includes/admin/wpnw-how-it-work.php:99	11/17/2025, 8:30:11 AM
Static	essentialplugin.com	https://essentialplugin.com/wordpress-plugin/sp-news-and-scrolling-widgets/	sp-news-and-widget.php:4	11/17/2025, 8:30:11 AM
Static	essentialplugin.com	https://essentialplugin.com/	sp-news-and-widget.php:10	11/17/2025, 8:30:11 AM
Static	essentialplugin.com	https://essentialplugin.com/	sp-news-and-widget.php:37	11/17/2025, 8:30:11 AM
Static	essentialplugin.com	https://essentialplugin.com/pricing/?utm_source=WP&utm_medium=News&utm_campaign=Upgrade-PRO	sp-news-and-widget.php:40	11/17/2025, 8:30:11 AM
Static	essentialplugin.com	https://essentialplugin.com/pricing/?utm_source=WP&utm_medium=News&utm_campaign=Welcome-Screen	sp-news-and-widget.php:43	11/17/2025, 8:30:11 AM

21 total row(s)


17.11.2025, 08:30:03	16s	47	175	129
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WP News and Scrolling Widgets

Security167

Plugin Repository70

General61

Performance4