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Newsroom OS – Editorial Command Center, Smart Tags & Schema Engine

Newsroom OS – Editorial Command Center, Smart Tags & Schema Engine

Опис

The Operating System for Modern Publishers — buy Pro at newsos.io.

Newsroom OS transforms WordPress into a complete editorial command center. Instead of juggling Google Trends in one tab, Docs in another, an SEO plugin on the side and Slack for assignments, you get a single integrated workflow built specifically for high-traffic news websites and content teams.

🏷️ The Smart Tag System (everyone loves this one)

Tags are the most underused SEO weapon on WordPress. Newsroom OS turns them into a strategic asset:

  • Context-aware Tag Suggester — a local, real-time engine analyzes title, lead, and body to recommend tags from your existing taxonomy. Weighted by editorial position (title hits weigh 16×, lead 6×, body 2×) and tag popularity.
  • Confidence Levels per Suggestion — every suggestion is scored HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW so writers know which tags are safe to add and which are speculative.
  • Phrase-aware matching — multi-word tags get a bonus so „European Central Bank“ never collapses to a generic „European“ tag.
  • Stop-word & noise filter — generic words („news“, „breaking“, „article“, „story“) are auto-suppressed in EL and EN.
  • One-click insert — clicking a suggested tag pill adds it instantly to the post via the native WordPress taxonomy API. Zero conflicts with Yoast or Rank Math.
  • Duplicate-tag Guard (Pro) — site-wide audit that surfaces near-duplicate tags („tesla“ / „Tesla Motors“ / „tsla“) so you can merge them and consolidate authority.
  • Wikidata-linked Entities — tag terms can be linked to a Wikidata Q-ID, geo coordinates, and an entity type. The Schema Engine then weaves these into NewsArticle JSON-LD as about/mentions/spatialCoverage, the exact signals Google Discover and News love.

🚀 100% Compatible with Yoast SEO & Rank Math

Newsroom OS does not try to replace your favorite SEO plugin. It acts as an Enterprise Schema Extension that reads your existing meta data and layers a „God-Tier“ Semantic Knowledge Graph (JSON-LD) on top — connecting Authors Tags Geo Locations Articles.

🧠 The Decision Engine (your biggest advantage)

Stop overwhelming writers with checklists. Newsroom OS analyzes every article in real-time and shows:

  • Publish Confidence Score (0–100%) — a live, transparent score with circular gauge
  • Next Best Action — the one thing to fix next, color-coded HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW priority
  • Live SEO insights, structure checks, internal-link readiness
  • Writers always know what to do next without leaving the Gutenberg or Classic Editor

✍️ Editorial Control

Manage the whole newsroom from one place:

  • Assign stories to specific writers with deadlines, target keywords, reference links, and editorial briefings
  • Real-time dashboard: active / overdue / completed tasks, SEO health, weekly publish KPIs
  • Capability-aware UI: chiefs see Editorial Control + Author Performance; writers see a slim „My Inbox“ with only their own tasks and their own messages

📈 Trend Radar & Story Timeline

  • Google Trends and Google News integrated live in the editor sidebar — localized per country
  • Auto-Timeline Engine that builds chronological story clusters from your archive and injects them into articles as a structured internal-link block (massive Discover signal)
  • CollectionPage JSON-LD generated alongside NewsArticle for full Discover and Top Stories eligibility

🌍 Localization out of the box

Greek and English UI shipped. Country-specific Google News editions (GR, US, BR, MX, JP, and more) with proper hl/gl/ceid parameters and localized fallback search terms per beat.

🆓 What you get for FREE

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

  • Smart Tag Suggester with confidence levels and one-click insert (the system everyone loves)
  • Decision Engine — Publish Confidence Score, Next Best Action, circular gauge, color-coded priorities
  • Editorial Dashboard — task assignment, deadlines, target keywords, briefings, real-time KPIs
  • Trend Radar — live Google Trends + Google News in the editor sidebar, localized per country
  • Auto-Story Timeline — chronological story clusters injected into articles, with CollectionPage JSON-LD
  • NewsArticle JSON-LD Schema with E-E-A-T author signals, organization Knowledge Graph, geo and entity coverage
  • E-E-A-T Author Profiles — job title, alumni of, knows about, social links, Wikidata person linking
  • Entity Tag Enrichment — link tags to Wikidata Q-IDs, lat/lng coordinates, entity type
  • Competitor RSS watch in the editor sidebar
  • SEO Auditor — find posts missing meta description in one click
  • 4-step Wizard — set up your whole newsroom in under 60 seconds
  • Greek + English UI with country-aware Google News localization

🚀 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:

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

  • Trusted by 2,000+ active installs in 20+ countries
  • Built for high-traffic newsrooms: event-driven JS (zero idle CPU), strict timeouts on every external API, smart database caching
  • Zero conflicts with Yoast / Rank Math / SureCart / WooCommerce
  • Greek + English UI, country-aware localization (GR, US, BR, MX, JP, IT, ES, FR, DE, IN, +more)
  • 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.

Снимци екрана

  • Editorial Dashboard — task management, KPIs, SEO health, Google Status
  • Editor Sidebar — Decision Engine + Smart Tag Suggester in action
  • Trend Radar — live Google Trends and News inside the editor
  • Author Performance (Pro) — chief view with per-writer cards and inline drill-down
  • Schema Engine — auto-generated NewsArticle JSON-LD on every post
  • Wizard — 4-step setup, complete in under 60 seconds

Постављање

  1. Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install via Plugins Add New Upload.
  2. Activate „Newsroom OS – Editorial Control & AI Assistant“.
  3. Run the 4-step Wizard (it auto-launches on first activation).
  4. (Optional) Activate Pro by going to „Editorial Control 🚀 PRO“ and pasting the license key from your newsos.io confirmation email.

ЧПП

Does it work with my theme?

Yes. Newsroom OS is 100% compatible with any standard WordPress theme (Astra, GeneratePress, Flavor, Newspaper, NewsMag, etc.) and supports both the Gutenberg Block Editor and the Classic Editor.

Will it conflict with Yoast SEO or Rank Math?

No. Newsroom OS reads your existing SEO data and layers an enterprise-grade Schema Knowledge Graph on top. Yoast and Rank Math keep doing their job for meta tags and sitemaps; Newsroom OS handles editorial workflow, smart tags, Decision Engine, and JSON-LD enrichment.

Will it slow down my website?

No. Strict timeouts on every external request, transient-based caching, event-driven JavaScript (no polling), capability-aware UI loading. Frontend speed is unaffected.

How does the Smart Tag system actually work?

It runs entirely in the editor (no API call) by normalizing your title/lead/body, scanning against your existing site tags, and ranking matches by a weighted formula that respects editorial position and tag popularity. Each suggestion comes with a HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW confidence badge so you know if it’s safe to add.

Where do I buy Pro?

At https://newsos.io/. One license key per site, instant delivery via email. Cancel anytime — 30-day money-back guarantee. If you run multiple sites, buy one license per site.

What if I cancel Pro?

Your site keeps working normally. All articles, tags, schema, tasks, and Focus Scores remain intact. You just stop receiving new Pro features and priority support. You can reactivate the license anytime.

Which AI providers does Pro AI Assist support? Can I use AI for free?

Yes. Pro AI Assist supports:

  • OpenAI — GPT-4o-mini and above (paid)
  • Google Geminigemini-2.5-flash by default (free tier available at aistudio.google.com)
  • Groqllama-3.3-70b-versatile by default (generous free tier, no credit card, at console.groq.com)

Bring your own key — Newsroom OS never proxies AI traffic through our servers. You can run every Pro AI feature (Discover-optimized titles, content optimization, trend keywords) with $0 of API spend by using the Groq or Gemini free tiers.

Will the AI answer in my language?

Yes. The AI auto-detects the language from your configured geo target (Settings Site Geo). Greece Greek, Brazil Brazilian Portuguese, Mexico Mexican Spanish, Japan Japanese, Israel Hebrew, and 40+ more locales. We send aggressive language directives to the provider on every prompt so even English-leaning models like Llama answer in the right language.

Does the plugin store any private data?

No. Everything (tasks, messages, Focus Scores, AI cache) lives in your own database. Pro licensing pings newsos.io once a day to validate the key and nothing else.

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1.7.0

  • NEW (Pro): Author Performance dashboard with per-writer cards, inline expandable details, top recent articles + categories, 7d/30d/90d live AJAX toggle, personal „Your own performance“ card for chiefs.
  • NEW (Pro): Focus Score persistence — the client-side Publish Confidence is now saved to postmeta (_newsai_focus_score) on a 10-second debounce and pinned at publish time (_newsai_focus_score_at_publish) so analytics aren’t skewed by later edits.
  • NEW (Pro): Groq AI provider with free-tier support (no credit card required) — drop-in next to OpenAI and Gemini, using llama-3.3-70b-versatile by default.
  • NEW (Pro): Discover-optimized Title Suggestions — five headlines per run, each in a different editorial angle (facts / impact / aftermath / authority / Discover hook), strictly 55–70 characters, with live char counter + angle badges in the editor sidebar.
  • NEW (Pro): Geo-aware AI language — AI prompts now answer in the correct language for the configured geo target (50+ locales: GR, BR, MX, ES, JP, IL, AR, DE, FR, IT, PL, RO, TR, RU, +more), even on aggressive English-leaning models. New filter newsai_ai_geo_to_locale for custom multilingual setups.
  • NEW: Chiefs can now also access „My Inbox“ via a dedicated submenu, so they can operate in writer-mode for their own assignments without losing the chief dashboard.
  • NEW: Personal performance card inside „My Inbox“ for every writer (Pro) — posts, tasks, avg Focus Score, trend, top categories.
  • IMPROVEMENT: Trend Radar fallback uses stable Google News topic RSS first, then localized search query — fixes empty feeds on EL/BR/MX installs.
  • IMPROVEMENT: Capability-based access tightened. „Chief“ now strictly means edit_others_posts everywhere (menu, dashboard widget, AJAX endpoints, email notifications) — peer writers can no longer leak into each other’s threads.
  • IMPROVEMENT: Gemini default model upgraded to gemini-2.5-flash with transparent auto-migration of deprecated 1.5-* model names.
  • IMPROVEMENT: AI Settings page now links directly to OpenAI / Gemini / Groq API-key dashboards with one-line guidance — including the free Groq + free Gemini paths so writers can start with zero spend.
  • IMPROVEMENT: Pro purchase CTAs across the plugin (banner, lock cards) point to newsos.io and carry UTM tracking.
  • FIX: Author Performance expanded view now spans the full grid row with a clean article list (no more clipped tables on narrow screens).

1.6.0

  • Editorial Intelligence: Publish Confidence + Next Best Action gauge, refined Auto-Timeline rules, soft profile presets.
  • Wizard copy updated to reflect new settings model.

1.5.0

  • Schema Engine v3 (Knowledge Graph build-out) and full E-E-A-T author profile support.
  • Smart Tag Suggester rebuilt with confidence levels and phrase-aware matching.