About this plugin
FeedMarquee turns the RSS and Atom feeds you choose into a full-screen dashboard that keeps itself up to date. Open the dashboard’s link on a TV, a wall display, a meeting-room screen or any browser, and it shows your latest headlines, refreshing automatically.
It runs entirely on your own WordPress site. There is no FeedMarquee account, no subscription and no external service to sign up for.
What you get
- Full-screen live dashboards. Each dashboard has its own unguessable link that opens as a clean, standalone page built for large screens. Anyone who has the URL can view the dashboard. It does not use your theme.
- Three layouts. Command Center (a featured story, a latest-headlines panel and a rotating strip of compact stories, with a live clock and status), Featured Cards, and Headline Wall.
- Automatic refreshing. FeedMarquee fetches your feeds in the background and the display updates itself about once a minute. If a feed has a problem, the last good content stays on screen.
- Your colors. Choose a palette (Midnight, Ocean, Ember, Forest or Light), set an optional color for each source, and rename or hide the headlines heading in Command Center.
- Multiple dashboards and no built-in feed limit. Give each dashboard its own feeds, labels, layout, palette and refresh interval (every 5 minutes or longer). Very long feed lists take longer to refresh on modest hosting.
- Source labels and timestamps on every story, with optional custom source names.
- Simple management in WordPress. Add feeds, see whether each one is working and when it last refreshed, refresh on demand, publish or unpublish a dashboard, copy its link, or create a new link at any time.
- Safe by design. Dashboards are only available while published. Feed addresses are checked before they are fetched, private and internal addresses are refused, and feed content is reduced to plain text before it is shown.
Good to know
- A dashboard’s link is unguessable but not password protected: anyone who has the URL can view it, so share it only where you want it shown. You can create a new link at any time.
- Only public feeds are supported, over IPv4: no logins, no private or internal networks, and no IPv6-only hosts.
- Article images are shown only when they are served over HTTPS.
- Background refreshing needs the PHP cURL extension and WP-Cron (or a real cron job). See the FAQ.
External services
FeedMarquee connects only to the RSS and Atom feed addresses that you add to a dashboard, from your own server, to read their articles. It sends a request identifying FeedMarquee and your site’s address, as any feed reader does. Nothing is sent to the plugin’s author or to any other service.
A dashboard’s viewers load article images directly from the websites that publish them. FeedMarquee asks the browser not to send a referrer when it does this. Please review the privacy policies of the feeds you choose.