Newsroom OS – Discover & AI-Visibility OS for WordPress Publishers

The Discover & AI-Visibility OS for WordPress Publishers

Built for newsrooms, publishers, and high-frequency editorial teams — not generic blogs.

Pro license: newsos.io — one key per site, same plugin you already install.

Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and SEOPress optimize posts. Newsroom OS runs the newsroom: Discover-ready signals, semantic JSON-LD, assignments, and writer guidance in one editorial layer on top of WordPress.

Classic Editor & Gutenberg (Block Editor)

Newsroom OS is built for real newsroom setups — including sites that still use Classic Editor, sites on full Gutenberg, and hybrid installs (block editor with the classic Tags metabox).

Gutenberg / Block Editor

• Publication Readiness sidebar (Editorial + Discover twin gauges, Next Best Action)
• REST-aware duplicate tag guard (snackbar + “Use existing” / “Keep anyway”)
• Breaking news mode, live H3 update insertion via blocks
• Trend Radar, Smart Tags, AI Assist (Pro) in the editor sidebar
• JS strings via wp_set_script_translations (el, en, de, es)

Classic Editor

• Same Publication Readiness panel and scores (TinyMCE / #content hooks — no block editor APIs on classic screens)
• Classic Tags metabox duplicate guard (AJAX before the tag chip is added)
• Breaking mode, live updates, and smart tag insert via Classic UI
• Stability: Gutenberg-only APIs (wp.data.subscribe, getEditedPostContent) run only when block-editor-page is present — prevents Classic Editor blocks.min.js stack overflows on large sites

Works with any theme (Astra, GeneratePress, Newspaper, NewsMag, Flavor, etc.) and alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, WooCommerce, and SureCart.

WordPress 7.0: Tested through WordPress 7.0 (Classic Editor, Gutenberg, and wp-admin dashboard). Requires PHP 7.4+ (PHP 8.x recommended).

Five pillars

1. Discover optimization

• Publication Readiness — twin scores in the editor: Editorial (article quality) and Discover (distribution potential). They are separate on purpose.
• Discover Score — Google-aligned: hero 1200px+, 16:9, 300k pixels, alt; clear 55–70 headline (anti-clickbait); topic/tags; optional trend fit; saved OG image when available.
• Breaking news mode — one toggle: LiveBlogPosting schema, faster IndexNow/Google ping, optional “developing story” badge, auto-expire, live-update workflow (H3 headings).
• Trend Radar — Google Trends + Google News in the sidebar, localized per country.

2. Semantic schema & entities

• NewsArticle / LiveBlogPosting JSON-LD — @graph with Organization, WebPage, author Person, geo, about / mentions.
• Entity tags — Wikidata Q-IDs, coordinates, entity types woven into schema.
• Richness presets — Minimal / Balanced / Full; optional articleBody modes (omit, full, first N words).
• Works with Yoast SEO & Rank Math — reads your meta; does not replace them.

3. Editorial workflow

• Tasks & assignments — deadlines, keywords, briefs, reference links.
• Dashboard — active / overdue / completed, KPIs, SEO health.
• Roles — chiefs see the full desk; writers see My Inbox only.
• Content Decay Radar (Pro) — flags stale evergreen posts and opens refresh tasks.

4. AI newsroom (Pro, BYOK)

• OpenAI, Gemini, or Groq — your API key stays on your site; free tiers supported (Groq / Gemini).
• Discover-optimized titles (55–70 chars, five angles), targeted optimization hints, trend-aware keywords.
• Geo-aware language — answers in the language of your configured region (40+ locales).

5. Knowledge layer

• Smart Tag Suggester — weighted, confidence-scored tags from your taxonomy; one-click insert; duplicate-tag guard (Pro).
• Story timelines — archive clusters + internal-link blocks + CollectionPage schema.
• Archive link finder — evergreen internal links from your own back catalog.
• Author E-E-A-T — profiles, schema Person, performance analytics (Pro).

UI in Greek, English, German, and Spanish (per-site language picker). See languages/README.txt for gettext catalogs.

🆓 What you get for FREE

Everything below ships in the free plugin — no signup, no rate limits, no nag screens:

• Publication Readiness — Editorial score + Discover Score, Next Best Action, detailed checklists
• Breaking news mode — LiveBlog schema workflow with auto-expire (when LiveBlog is enabled in settings)
• Smart Tag Suggester — confidence levels, one-click insert
• Editorial dashboard — tasks, deadlines, keywords, briefings
• Trend Radar — Google Trends + News in the editor
• Auto-story timeline + archive internal-link finder
• NewsArticle JSON-LD — entities, geo, E-E-A-T author signals
• SEO auditor, 4-step wizard, 4-language UI

🚀 PRO Features (Buy at [newsos.io](https://newsos.io/) — €29/month per site)

Pro is a single license key tied to one site, activated inside your dashboard at “Editorial Control → 🚀 PRO”. No separate plugin to install — Pro unlocks inside the same plugin you already trust. Need more than one site? Buy one license per site at newsos.io.

🤖 AI Assist (BYOK – Bring Your Own Key)

Bring your own API key for OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Groq. Newsroom OS never proxies AI traffic through our servers — your key stays on your site.

💸 Free AI tier supported: Groq offers a very generous free tier (no credit card) on llama-3.3-70b-versatile. The settings page links directly to:

• https://platform.openai.com/api-keys (OpenAI)
• https://aistudio.google.com/apikey (Google Gemini — free tier available)
• https://console.groq.com/keys (Groq — free tier, no card required)

You can write your first AI-assisted article with $0 of API spend.

Direct in-editor actions:

• 🎯 Discover-optimized Title Suggestions — five alternative headlines on every run, each in a different angle: facts-first / human impact / aftermath / authority / Discover hook. Every title is 55–70 characters (the Google Discover sweet spot), front-loaded with the news, and live-validated by a character counter and angle badge in the UI.
• ✨ Targeted Content Optimization — non-rewrite editorial suggestions per paragraph, categorized (readability / seo / eeat / structure / factcheck) and ranked by impact.
• 🔥 Trend-Aware Keywords — pulls current Google Trends for your region, picks the ones that genuinely fit the article, and tells you exactly where to weave them in (headline / lede / paragraph / tag).
• FAQ Block generation in valid FAQPage JSON-LD
• Key Takeaways block
• Per-user daily rate limits + transient caching so you never burn budget twice on the same prompt

🌍 Geo-aware language output — the AI answers in the correct language for your geo target automatically. GR/CY → Greek, BR → Brazilian Portuguese, MX → Mexican Spanish, JP → Japanese, IL → Hebrew, and 40+ more locales — even on aggressive English-leaning models like Llama. Filter newsai_ai_geo_to_locale for custom multilingual newsrooms.

Default models are kept current (gpt-4o-mini, gemini-2.5-flash, llama-3.3-70b-versatile) with transparent auto-migration of deprecated providers.

📈 Author Performance Analytics (NEW in 1.7.0)

A complete writer performance dashboard for chiefs:

• Per-author cards: posts published in the window, tasks done/open/overdue, average Focus Score at publish time, 30/60/90-day trend
• Inline expandable details: top recent articles with score, top categories, edit/view shortcuts
• Personal “Your own performance” card on top — chiefs that also write see their own numbers without drilling down
• Cached aggregates with smart invalidation on post publish / task completion / score change
• Phase 2-ready: filter hooks for Discover and Google News click integration via Search Console

💬 Editorial Comms (Task Threads + Email)

• Two-way messaging thread per task — chief ↔ assignee, with unread badges in the menu
• Capability-aware visibility: writers only see their own threads, never peers’
• Configurable email alerts: new assignment, new message, task completed
• Auto-purge old threads on a configurable retention window

🛡️ Duplicate-Tag Guard

Site-wide audit that surfaces near-duplicate tags so you can merge them and consolidate authority. Tied directly into the Smart Tag system.

🔥 Content Decay Radar

Detects evergreen articles losing freshness signals and automatically creates a “Needs Refresh” task with target keyword and reference URL. Configurable batch size, views threshold, and meta key.

⚡ Instant Indexing API

Direct integration with Google Indexing API (service account JSON or bearer token) + IndexNow for Bing/Yandex. Async pings on publish, per-post diagnostics in postmeta, full status panel in settings.

📰 LiveBlogPosting Schema

One toggle on a post turns it into a fully valid LiveBlogPosting JSON-LD with chronological updates — exactly what Google requires for Top Stories live coverage.

🖼️ Google Discover Image Validator

Pre-publish check that flags featured images that fail the 1200px-wide minimum that Google Discover requires.

🧪 Advanced Sidebar Modules

• Auto-Timeline triggers refined for high-frequency desks
• Writer leaderboard widget in the sidebar (legacy)
• Reusable Pro lock cards with custom UTM tracking

🔧 Priority Support & Updates

License-gated updates flow through the same plugin. Verify your license at newsos.io and you keep receiving fixes + new features without re-uploading anything.

Why publishers choose us

• Category: Discover & publishing infrastructure — not “another SEO plugin”
• Trusted by 2,000+ active installs in 20+ countries
• Built for high-traffic desks: event-driven editor JS, strict API timeouts, smart caching
• Zero conflicts with Yoast / Rank Math / SureCart / WooCommerce
• 30-day money-back guarantee on Pro

👉 Buy Pro at newsos.io — €29/month or $233/year (save 33%). One license key per site, instant delivery via email.

Translators / i18n

• Text domain: newsroom-ai-assistant — every string uses __(), _e(), esc_html__(), and the editor script is registered with wp_set_script_translations() so Gutenberg sidebar strings translate too.
• Compiled .mo catalogs for el, en_US, de_DE, es_ES ship under /languages, alongside the corresponding newsroom-ai-assistant-{locale}-newsai-script.json files for JS translations.
• The plugin loads catalogs directly with the resolved request locale (determine_locale()), making it compatible with the WordPress 6.7+ Just-In-Time loader and the new WP_Translation_Controller. The Site Details → Language picker switches the UI language per site without touching the global WP locale.
• Want to add another language? Drop a new newsroom-ai-assistant-{locale}.mo (and optionally the matching -newsai-script.json) into /languages. Loco Translate or wp i18n make-mo are the usual tools. See languages/README.txt for details.