What's New in NewsPro

NewsPro 3.1.0 is our largest design release ever. On top of the original Default template, we shipped 29 brand-new templates — bringing the total to 30 — each purpose-built for a specific publishing niche.

Every template is production-ready, fully RTL/LTR aware, ships with dark mode, and plugs directly into NewsPro's shared article, media, and account infrastructure. Switching takes one click and moves zero data.

• General news & editorial: Default, Starter, Flash, Horizon, Chronicle, Origin
• Sports, gaming & automotive: Arena, Ignite, Voyager
• Business, finance & technology: Ledger, Quarter, Byte, Pulse, Signal
• Health, science & environment: Vita, Verdant, Tonic
• Food & lifestyle: Saveur, Kitchen, Coastal, Bloom
• Politics, investigation & community: Capitol, Veritas, Harbor, Meridian
• Culture, arts & faith: Atelier, Muse, Canvas, Pantheon, Beacon

See the full launch announcement for design philosophies, color palettes, and publisher archetype pairings.

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 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

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

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

Release

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