Publish To Apple News

by Alley

Description

The ‘Publish to Apple News’ plugin enables WordPress sites with approved Apple News channels to publish content directly on Apple News.

Features include:

Convert your WordPress content into Apple News format automatically.
Create a custom design for your Apple News content with no programming knowledge required.
Automatically or manually publish posts from WordPress to Apple News.
Control individual posts with options to publish, update, or delete.
Publish individual posts or in bulk.
Handles image galleries and popular embeds like YouTube and Vimeo that are supported by Apple News.

To enable content from your WordPress site to be published to your Apple News channel, you must obtain and enter Apple News API credentials from Apple.

Please see the Apple Developer and Apple News Publisher documentation and terms on Apple’s website for complete information.

Developers

Please visit us on GitHub to submit issues, pull requests or read our wiki page about contributing.

Installation

Please visit our wiki for detailed installation instructions as well as configuration and usage instructions, troubleshooting information and a full list of action and filter hooks.

Screenshots

Manage all of your posts in Apple News from your WordPress dashboard
Create a custom theme for your Apple News posts with no programming knowledge required
Publish posts in bulk
Manage posts in Apple News right from the post edit screen

Faq

Please visit our wiki for detailed installation instructions as well as configuration and usage instructions, troubleshooting information and a full list of action and filter hooks.

Reviews

Syntax Error

By douglaskarr on March 29, 2024

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '|', expecting ';' or '{' in /home/v7admky/public_html/wp-content/plugins/publish-to-apple-news/includes/class-apple-news.php on line 352

Works well

By Damian (wildist) on January 23, 2024

The Publish to Apple News plugin does a decent job allowing WordPress users to easily distribute their content to Apple News. It provides an automated way to format and submit WordPress posts to the Apple News platform with just a few clicks. For bloggers looking to expand their reach, this plugin offers a seamless way to access Apple's robust news reader audience.

Doesn;t support multiple Post Type

By thereviewer93 on July 3, 2021

I'm unable to select multiple post types. Only one post type at a time.

Can't Get It To Work

By Simmons (sbuntin) on August 16, 2020

I can get some posts to publish automatically, but not all of them, which is frustrating.

Not getting response from the Author

By Tejas Gajjar (suhan2411) on September 30, 2019

I have used this plugin and asked for support of my one question I waited for 5 days for the response from the author but no response I got.

Exactly What I was Looking for

By cryptozink on September 20, 2019

This plugin is perfect for what I was looking for. I submitted to Apple News from wordpress admin panel and now waiting for moderators to approve. Fingers crossed I get approve. WOW, thanks

Just what I needed, Embed fix was slow in coming

By natejacobson on September 11, 2019

Just what I needed, video embed fix was slow in coming.

Special charaters

By atoupet on March 14, 2019

Looks great but has severals problemes with special characters. Content just break with accent, display "à" as ? ... Seems to support only english, and not latin languages. Can the author update that? 🙂 And, once article are published, seems impossible to update them ...

Will bloat your filesystem for no reason

By rocketsportsnetwork on April 19, 2018

This plugin insanely instructs WP to store *15* additional image sizes for every image you upload, and the majority of them are huge. Now, WP doesn't upscale, so the huge ones will only get created if you're uploading images larger than this already, but: this is completely and utterly stupid, to have this many, this close in size. And no, it's not relevant if Apple's own stupid guidelines recommend this many - be sensible! The image sizes it creates (taken from a var_dump() of the WP var which holds them): ["apple_news_ca_landscape_12_9"]=>int(1832)int(1374) ["apple_news_ca_landscape_9_7"]=>int(1376)int(1032) ["apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5"]=>int(1044)int(783) ["apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7"]=>int(632)int(474) ["apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0"]=>int(536)int(402) ["apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9"]=>int(1122)int(1496) ["apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7"]=>int(840)int(1120) ["apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5"]=>int(687)int(916) ["apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7"]=>int(414)int(552) ["apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0"]=>int(354)int(472) ["apple_news_ca_square_12_9"]=>int(1472)int(1472) ["apple_news_ca_square_9_7"]=>int(1104)int(1104) ["apple_news_ca_square_5_5"]=>int(912)int(912) ["apple_news_ca_square_4_7"]=>int(550)int(550) ["apple_news_ca_square_4_0"]=>int(470)int(470) This is just nuts. You could reduce this from 15 to just 6 with negligible impact. Just have two, maybe three at a push, sizes per layout instead of 5. Utterly bonkers.

Works, technically

By hughie.molloy on October 18, 2017

Constantly spams uses with messages and has several error notices and warnings

Changelog

2.7.2

Enhancement: Now shows up to 50 suggestions for terms in Automation settings, rather than just 10. Props to @aurooba for the fix.
Bugfix: Resolves an issue where the date in the standalone “Date” component had the UTC offset applied to it twice, causing the date and time to be off by the value of the UTC offset (e.g., a post published at 12:00 PM EDT would incorrectly appear as 8:00 AM EDT). Props to @naxoc for the fix.
Bugfix: Resolves a warning being thrown when block editor assets are being enqueued and the plugin settings haven’t been loaded. Props to @s3rgiosan for the fix.
Bugfix: The logic for whether the plugin should update postmeta by comparing the old value to the new now compares the raw value from the database instead of the filtered value, which now accurately accounts for default postmeta values. Props to @dlh01 for the fix.

2.7.1

Changed: Removed the requirement that recipe HTML contains the exact name of the recipe given in the corresponding JSON-LD item.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where an error would occur when attempting to publish posts containing VideoPress embedded videos.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where JSON-LD Recipe items would not be detected when they were part of JSON-LD arrays.

2.7.0

Enhancement: Add support for the Apple News Recipe component. Please visit our wiki for detailed documentation.
Enhancement: Add “Cover Media” options, expanding on existing “Cover Image” feature, allowing YouTube or other videos to display in the Cover component.
Enhancement: Add setting that allows elements in post content matching CSS classes or ID selectors to be excluded from the content sent to Apple News.
Enhancement: Allow article deletions with Bulk Actions.
Enhancement: Move section mapping to its own table in the Automation settings for easier management.
Enhancement: Enable caption on the Cover component by default.

2.6.3

Bugfix: Fixed an issue where the deletion of a post’s autosave could cause the Apple News article for that post to be deleted.

2.6.2

Enhancement: i18n – Remove load_plugin_textdomain. Since WordPress 4.6, plugins no longer need to load their own textdomain.
Enhancement: i18n – Moved some plugin initialization code to the init action hook.
Enhancement: Add license to plugin header.
Bugfix: i18n – Fixed the _load_textdomain_just_in_time error with WordPress 6.7.
Bugfix: Update bulk action text to clarify that the “Publish” action can also be used to update published articles.
Bugfix: Update plugin name in plugin header.

2.6.1

Enhancement: Ensured support for WordPress 6.7.

2.6.0

Enhancement: Support added for PHP 8.3.
Enhancement: Support added for handling deleted articles (in iCloud News Publisher).
Enhancement: Add a new hook, apple_news_after_push_failure, that fires when a post fails to be pushed to Apple News.
Enhancement: Debugging Settings: support added for sending notification to multiple email accounts.
Enhancement: Debugging Settings: support added for client side validation of the email accounts.
Enhancement: REST Endpoints actually return a WP_Error if Apple News is not initialized.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where a root-relative image URL used the URL to the WordPress installation instead of the URL to the front-end, which WordPress allows admins to configure to be different URLs.
Bugfix: API Settings: fixed an issue where the latest value was not rendered after an update.

2.5.1

Bugfix: Fixed an issue where the plugin would crash if the Apple News API returned an error when fetching information about the configured channel. Now surfaces an admin notice with the error message instead.

2.5.0

Breaking Change: Removed support for per-article advertising settings, which have been deprecated by Apple. Advertising settings can now only be set at the channel level.
Enhancement: Added support for an aside component. To use, specify the class for the container that includes the aside content in the plugin settings.
Enhancement: Added support for the Footnotes block.
Enhancement: Added a new In Article module, similar to the End of Article module, but which is configurable to appear within article content instead.
Enhancement: Added support for custom fonts added to the channel in the theme customizer.
Enhancement: Added support for respecting the text alignment of individual paragraphs.
Enhancement: Added support for customizing default tag styles via Customize JSON. To use, edit the Body component in the Customize JSON interface.
Enhancement: Added support for customizing individual items in a gallery via Customize JSON.
Enhancement: Added an option to Automation where the contentGenerationType can be set to AI for AI-generated content based on applied taxonomy terms.
Enhancement: Added an option to Automation to prepend text to an Apple News article title based on applied taxonomy terms.
Enhancement: Split layouts for headings by level, so different layouts can be applied to each heading level in Customize JSON.
Enhancement: Improves the display of captions.
Enhancement: Added debugging for Apple News API requests.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where a channel that was set to paid by default required every article to also be marked as paid, rather than accepting the channel default.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where images that were hyperlinked and aligned to the left or the right would not properly display in Apple News.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue with a bad path for file inclusion that was causing a crash on some systems.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where including a Cover block with a caption would cause an error on publish.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where editing a synced pattern (formerly known as a reusable block) would cause an error in the editor. Props to @kasparsd for the fix.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where posts missing custom excerpts would show the publish date and time as the excerpt instead of an autogenerated excerpt based on post content.

Information on previous releases can be found on the plugin’s GitHub Releases page.