Title: Legal News Headlines
Author: troycobb
Published: <strong>August 10, 2012</strong>
Last modified: August 10, 2012

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Legal News Headlines

 By [troycobb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/troycobb/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/legal-news-headlines.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/legal-news-headlines/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/legal-news-headlines/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/legal-news-headlines/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/legal-news-headlines/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/legal-news-headlines/)

## Description

This free WordPress plugin was designed for bloggers who want to add legal news 
content to their website(s). You blog’s own content will be combined with _fresh_
legal news from LexisNexis’ legal news website, [Lawyers.com] (http://Lawyers.com“
Lawyers.com”).

**Features:**

 * Combine Your Content With Fresh Headlines: This WordPress plugin will display
   a mix of fresh legal news headlines that your predetermine intermixed with your
   blog’s own content.
 * No 3rd Party Branding: This plugin is “White Label”. The design is determined
   by your WordPress theme and no other logos or branding will be displayed or marketed
   to the end user.
 * Customized Legal News: You customize what types of legal news (bankruptcy, family
   law, etc.) is displayed to your readers in the easy to use admin screen.
 * Adjustable Content Display: Ability to add a character limited summary option
   to display excerpts from stories directly on your blog.
 * Continuous RSS Scrolling: Headlines will vertically scroll at a speed you determine,
   allowing a large amount of content to be displayed in a small box.
 * Easy Installation: No coding knowledge required to configure this plugin. Just
   activate the plugin and drag and drop the widget to sidebar and check the front
   end.
 * Scalable Performance: Based on the latest WordPress feed fetching technology 
   for enhanced performance and scalability
 * Multiple Flavors of RSS Supported: Supports all major types of RSS and Atom feeds
   including: RSS 0.91 (Netscape), RSS 0.91 (Userland), RSS 0.90, RSS 0.92, RSS 
   1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, Atom 1.0
 * Easy Configuration: Easy to use configuration settings screen
 * Multiple sources of legal news categories: bloggers can select specific types
   of headlines to be displayed in widget (Divorce, current events, Family Law, 
   etc.) in admin interface
 * Configurable name for headline box: Call this widget box whatever you want (ie.
   Top Legal News, Name-Of-Your-Blog News, etc.)

**Coming soon**
 * (Got more ideas? Tell us!) Copyright 2012 by Definition 6.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY 
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this
program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth
Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

## Screenshots

[⌊Full administration/customization all from the widget panel.⌉⌊Full administration/
customization all from the widget panel.⌉[

Full administration/customization all from the widget panel.

[⌊Easily customize the widget and use multiple times on your site to align perfectly
to your content. You'll see here that there is no branding on the content outside
of your site theme.⌉⌊Easily customize the widget and use multiple times on your 
site to align perfectly to your content. You'll see here that there is no branding
on the content outside of your site theme.⌉[

Easily customize the widget and use multiple times on your site to align perfectly
to your content. You’ll see here that there is no branding on the content outside
of your site theme.

[⌊Seamlessly integrate with your existing WordPress theme.⌉⌊Seamlessly integrate
with your existing WordPress theme.⌉[

Seamlessly integrate with your existing WordPress theme.

[⌊Another example with preview content turned on.⌉⌊Another example with preview 
content turned on.⌉[

Another example with preview content turned on.

[⌊An example without post preview content.⌉⌊An example without post preview content
.⌉[

An example without post preview content.

[⌊One final example for good measure!⌉⌊One final example for good measure!⌉[

One final example for good measure!

## Installation

To install this WordPress plugin, please follow these steps:

 1. Download the zipped plugin file to your local machine.
 2. Unzip the file called “legal-news-headlines.zip”
 3. Upload the “legal-news-headlines” folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
 4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 5. Configure the defaults on the options menu screen.
 6. Drag the “Legal News Headlines” to your sidebar in the Appearance section

## FAQ

  I installed the plugin but I don’t see it on my site!

After installing, you have to add it to a sidebar under Appearance > Widgets.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Legal News Headlines” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ troycobb ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/troycobb/)
 *   [ accarrino ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/accarrino/)
 *   [ jbromwell ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jbromwell/)

[Translate “Legal News Headlines” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/legal-news-headlines)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/legal-news-headlines/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/legal-news-headlines/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/legal-news-headlines/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/legal-news-headlines/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated: **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations: **10+**
 *  WordPress Version: ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to: **3.4.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/legal-news-headlines/)
 * Tags:
 * [Atom](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/atom/)[blog](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blog/)
   [content](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content/)[feed](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/feed/)
   [headlines](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/headlines/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/legal-news-headlines/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ troycobb ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/troycobb/)
 *   [ accarrino ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/accarrino/)
 *   [ jbromwell ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jbromwell/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/legal-news-headlines/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://lawyers.com/)