What's New in NewsPro

Every feature, improvement, and fix — documented from day one.

Current version: 3.0.3

NewsPro 3.0: Total Overhaul with AI, PWA & Subscriptions

NewsPro 3.0 delivers a complete redesign with a new rich text editor, full REST API, PWA support, and AI-powered tools. You now get advanced ad management, subscriptions with 15 gateways, bulk editing, and seamless social integrations for effortless publishing.

Core Platform & UI Enhancements

  • You can now use a powerful rich text editor built from scratch with countdown timers, code embeds, AI translation, grammar check, math formulas, galleries, PDF export, and 30+ advanced features like block drag-and-drop and SEO checker
  • Full dashboard restructure with modular functions and offline/online notifications for smoother navigation
  • Progressive Web App (PWA) support with enable/disable toggle and screenshot customization
  • Dark/light theme toggle for users, dual logos, automatic night mode, and back-to-top button
  • 10 built-in site templates, header/footer custom code injection, and maintenance mode toggle

Content Management & Publishing

  • Bulk editing for articles, breaking news, categories, comments, fonts, forms, pages, polls, users, and more, with quick status toggles
  • Centralized site pages management, drag-and-drop category ordering with color customization, and alphabetical homepage display
  • Multi-step polls, interactive quizzes, Shorts/Reels support, estimated reading time, previous/next navigation, and table of contents generator
  • Sponsored articles, anonymous publishing for editors, fake content generator for testing, and WordPress bulk import
  • Breaking news ticker customization, geo-targeted homepage, and Shorts section on homepage

Editor & Media Tools

  • Built-in media player for video/audio/MP3, FFmpeg auto-thumbnails, auto-generate 3 image sizes, and custom video preview images
  • Free/commercial media search from Pexels, Unsplash, Pixabay, Shutterstock, Giphy
  • Full file manager with previews, file downloads/attachments, and cloud storage for Cloudflare R2, S3, and 6 more providers
  • Social embeds for 19 platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitch
  • Weather/stock ticker widgets, author bio blocks, credits/sources, and Text-to-Speech for articles

User Management & Social Features

  • 18 social logins (Google, GitHub, Facebook, X, and more), passkey (WebAuthn), password login, account lockout, and IP rate limiting
  • Follow/unfollow users/categories with notifications, redesigned profiles showing comments/shorts, hide email option, and follower counts
  • Comment system with approvals, pinning, styling, emoji/replies/quotes, time-limited editing, spam prevention, and third-party integrations (Hyvor/Disqus)
  • Anonymous comments, GDPR data downloads, custom user roles with granular permissions
  • Contact forms with subjects, phone, uploads, and admin replies via email/push/bell

Monetization & Subscriptions

  • Full subscription/paywall system with 15 gateways (Stripe, PayPal, and more), content locking, permissions, abandoned cart recovery, and confirmation/cancellation emails
  • Ad management with geo-targeting, popups, auto-rotation by CTR, ROI tracking, performance reports, AdBlock detection, and "Not interested" button
  • "Buy me a coffee" widget, ads.txt support, and ad targeting by article type

AI & Automation

  • AI smart tagging, article tags from content, xAI (Grok) for automated publishing, and AI video translation
  • User search analytics, keyword tracking with block list, anomaly detection, and advanced analytics export (PDF/CSV/Google Sheets)
  • Auto-post to 10 platforms (Facebook, X, Instagram, etc.), article-to-Stories conversion

Admin & Developer Tools

  • Full REST API for articles, categories, pages, breaking news, users (CRUD operations)
  • Server info page with stats, cache clear, DB optimize, backups, PHP info, and reports
  • Font management, CDN config, cookie consent, security.txt, PHP error toggle, cron-job.org integration, and scheduled backups
  • CDN configuration, user reward/gamification, and server info with downloadable reports

AI Writing, Breaking News & Major UX Overhaul

Introduced AI-powered image generation, 13 writing styles, breaking news, dark mode, full-site backups, and a complete redesign of management tables.

AI Features

  • 13 AI writing styles (News Report, Opinion, Feature, Interview, Listicle, and more)
  • AI-powered image generation for articles
  • Regenerate article images with one click
  • Article submission via API

Content & Dashboard

  • Breaking news integration with scrolling ticker
  • Article, page, and category duplication
  • Drag-and-paste image insertion in the editor
  • Article like/dislike reactions
  • Hide comments per article or globally
  • New sort options: by views, likes, ID, date

User Experience

  • Dark mode and light mode toggle
  • Responsive management tables
  • Single-click logout from all devices
  • jQuery completely removed
  • Accessibility improvements for screen readers

Infrastructure

  • One-click full database and file backup
  • IPv6 support in IP tracking
  • 97 languages refreshed

Migration to NewsPro.io & Bug Fixes

Transition update connecting the legacy self-hosted product to the new newspro.io platform.

Platform Migration

  • Account migration to newspro.io
  • Google login for existing customers
  • Affiliate partner program with referral links
  • License extension for all users until August 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Multiple stability improvements and bug fixes

RSS Feeds, Structured Data & Language Editor

Mandatory update introducing RSS feeds, structured data, language editing, and code cleanup.

New Features

  • RSS feed for categories and authors
  • Main RSS moved to /?display=Feed
  • Structured data (JSON-LD) for static pages
  • Language editor: customize any translation
  • PWA manifest color customization

Fixes & Performance

  • Fixed articles displaying by ID instead of date
  • Reduced code weight by 1 MB
  • CSS upgrades and security hardening

Initial Public Release

First public release of NewsPro as a licensed self-hosted news CMS.

Release

  • v1.35: Initial public release
  • v1.36: Error corrections and stability fixes

NewsPro Launches on Gumroad

The first public release of NewsPro — a self-hosted PHP news CMS sold as a digital download on Gumroad. Aimed at publishers who want full control over their news site without WordPress.

Core Platform

  • Complete PHP-based news CMS — install on any shared hosting or VPS
  • Article management: create, edit, publish, schedule, and categorize articles
  • Category system with custom icons and descriptions
  • Static pages (About, Contact, Privacy, etc.)
  • User accounts with admin and editor roles
  • Media library with image upload and management

Frontend

  • Responsive news site template included
  • Homepage with latest articles, featured stories, and category sections
  • Article page with related articles and comment section
  • Category pages and author profiles
  • Built-in search functionality

SEO & Technical

  • Automatic SEO meta tags for every article
  • XML sitemap generation
  • Open Graph tags for social sharing
  • RSS feed
  • Google Analytics integration

Distribution

  • Sold as a digital download on Gumroad
  • One-time purchase with lifetime updates for the base version
  • PHP 8+ compatible, MySQL/MariaDB database

Always Getting Better

New features ship regularly. Every plan gets every update — automatically.

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