Sudwire Newsroom – Local News from Official Sources
| 开发者 | sudwire |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年10月29日 01:10 |
| PHP版本: | 7.4 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
- Tell Scout, our sources assistant, the area you cover. It finds the police, council, school, weather and transport websites near you and checks each one works.
- Sudwire checks them every few minutes. Each new item gets a score for how much it matters locally, and routine notices are left out.
- The stories worth running arrive here as posts waiting for review, with a headline, a photo you're free to use, the category, tags and a link to the source.
- Your editor reads, edits if needed and publishes.
- Articles written for your site, in its language and at the length you choose, never the source's own text.
- Official sources only. Other news outlets can be followed as leads, or credited when you choose to write from them.
- Photos that are free to reuse, credited under the article.
- Stories about crime, courts, deaths, minors, health emergencies or elections always wait for an editor.
- New articles arrive as Pending review or as Drafts, as you prefer, and the summary fills the meta description in Yoast SEO, Rank Math or SEOPress.
- A Newsroom screen showing what's waiting, what your team decided and how many readers each article had.
- Bin a draft and say why, and the next drafts improve. Sudwire also skips stories your site already ran.
- More than 40 languages, from English and Spanish to Polish and Japanese.
安装:
- Install and activate the plugin. The Newsroom screen opens.
- Press "Connect with Sudwire", sign in or create your account, and press Connect.
- Choose the official sources for your area with Scout, our sources assistant.
- New articles appear under Newsroom and in Posts → Pending.
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常见问题:
Is the plugin free?
Yes. It needs a Sudwire Newsroom account. You can see 5 sample drafts for your area first, with no card, and Starter and Pro start with a 14-day free trial. Plans are priced by how many articles a day you want.
Will it copy other news sites?
No. Articles are written from official sources such as police, councils and agencies, in Sudwire's own words, with the source linked. Other outlets only appear as leads unless you choose to write from one, and then it's credited and its photos are never used.
Is it safe for search engines?
Each article is new text written from a primary source, the number per day is capped, and your editor reviews what goes out. Posts are ordinary WordPress posts, so your SEO plugin and sitemap handle them as usual.
Can articles be published without anyone checking them?
Only if you choose automatic publishing in the dashboard. Sensitive stories still wait for an editor.
Does it work with my theme?
Yes. Articles are standard posts with a featured image, a category and tags, so any theme shows them.
Can several people review articles?
Yes. Anyone who can edit others' posts can review and publish them, and the Newsroom screen shows who decided what.
Does it say articles were written with AI?
That's set in your Sudwire Newsroom dashboard. Articles an editor publishes count as reviewed. You can change the wording with the sudwire_label_text filter.
Is the plugin in my language?
Its screens follow your WordPress language. They come in Romanian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Dutch, and you can help translate them into yours at translate.wordpress.org.
My security plugin limits the REST API to signed-in users. Does it still work?
Yes, from version 0.6.4. The plugin keeps its own two public addresses open (the site check and the read count) and leaves the rest of the REST API as your security plugin set it. A firewall that blocks the address before WordPress runs still needs to allow /wp-json/sudwire-newsroom/.
What if an article's photo doesn't download?
From version 0.6.5 the post stays a draft and the plugin tries again on the next checks, from Sudwire's copy of the photo and from where it came from. It's published once the photo is in, unless an editor changed the post meanwhile (then publishing is left to them) or it waited long enough to be old news (then it's filed for review). If the photo still hasn't downloaded after about 16 hours, the post stays unpublished for an editor to add a photo, and the Newsroom screen's log says so. Your default photo is only used for articles that arrive without one.
更新日志:
- A photo too big for the server to process no longer holds up the articles after it: each try is counted before it starts.
- A post held back for its photo goes for review instead of being published when it waited too long, or when an editor changed it meanwhile.
- A post whose photo doesn't download is no longer published without it. It stays a draft and the photo is tried again, also from Sudwire's copy, then the post is published.
- Sites whose security plugin limits the REST API to signed-in users can now be confirmed, and their article reads are counted.
- The plugin's name now says what it does: local news from official sources.
- Security: the structured data in an article's page head is fully escaped, and article text can no longer carry shortcodes or block markers into a post.
- The plugin's screens in Romanian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Dutch. WordPress.org language packs replace them as volunteers translate the plugin.
- The AI note on automatically published articles can go in the credit line at the end instead of a line at the top, when the site chooses that in Sudwire.
- Bin a draft and say why: not your area, not news for you, already covered, wrong facts or badly written. Sudwire learns from it for your next drafts.
- Stories your site already published itself aren't drafted again.
- A draft binned in the Sudwire dashboard moves to the bin here too.
- The edit screen shows a hint when a similar post went out in the last three days, and the reminder now shows in the block editor too.
- Posts list: a Source link under each Sudwire draft, and Sensitive next to the ones that need a careful check.
- A staging copy of the site no longer collects the real site's articles.
- An article that can't be filed no longer holds up the ones after it, and a check cut short is finished on the next one.
- Publishing no longer waits for Sudwire to answer.
- Text for your privacy policy, under Settings, Privacy.
- The credit line under each article ("Source", "Photo") is in your site's language, on older articles too.
- Publishing an article counts as its review: there's no box to tick any more.
- New setting: articles can arrive as drafts instead of pending posts.
- New setting: the article's summary fills the meta description in Yoast SEO, Rank Math or SEOPress.
- The note on articles is smaller, and follows your dashboard's settings for every post.
- The Newsroom menu item sits after WordPress's own items.
- Photo names with accents or brackets are recognised too.
- New articles skip photos your site already used in the last 30 days, including ones added by editors or other plugins.
- A clearer message when a site can't be connected from its address.
- Photo credits link the licence when the licence asks for it.
- Your WordPress time zone is shared with Sudwire, so its emails and analytics follow your day.
- Choose the default photo from the Media Library.
- The first screen is shorter, and the service address is under Advanced.
- Connect with one click: sign in to Sudwire from the Newsroom screen and you're connected, no key to copy.
- After connecting, the screen shows the next step: choosing your sources, then starting the trial.
- A smaller, quieter note on articles drafted with AI: "Written with AI from official sources".
- A new look for the Newsroom screen, matching the Sudwire dashboard, and the Sudwire logo in the admin menu.
- A first screen with the steps to connect, and links to step-by-step guides.
- Articles waiting, published and read, at a glance.
- Faster on big sites: cached counts, a lighter read report, and readers remembered in the object cache when there is one.
- Publishing never waits on a slow connection: if the decision can't be sent within 5 seconds, it's sent in the background.
- Renamed internal names to the sudwire_ prefix. The AI label filter is now sudwire_label_text.
- Styles and the read counter load through WordPress's script and style queue.
- Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- Counts reads of Sudwire articles for the dashboard's Analytics, once per reader every half hour. No cookies.
- The AI note also appears in the site's RSS feed.
- The service address must use https.
- Site ownership check for free trials.
- First release.