Publish To Apple News

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1. ★★★★★ Damian

   2.6y ago

   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.

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2. ★★★★★ thereviewer93

   5.2y ago

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

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3. ★★★★★ Simmons

   6.0y ago

   I can get some posts to publish automatically, but not all of them, which is frustrating. This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Simmons.

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4. ★★★★★ Tejas Gajjar

   6.9y ago

   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.

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5. ★★★★★ cryptozink

   6.9y ago

   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

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6. ★★★★★ natejacobson

   7.0y ago

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

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7. ★★★★★ atoupet

   7.5y ago

   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 … This topic was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by atoupet.

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8. ★★★★★ rocketsportsnetwork

   8.4y ago

   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. This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by rocketsportsnetwork.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.8.0 Breaking Change: Drops support for EOL PHP versions (8.0, 8.1). The minimum required PHP version is now 8.2. Enhancement: Adds a new filter, apple_news_embed_web_video_link, to filter the final video URL for an Embed Web 2.8.0
2. — Version 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 of 2.7.2
3. — Version 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 containi 2.7.1
4. — Version 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 ot 2.7.0
5. — Version 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. 2.6.3
6. — Version 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 2.6.2

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-07-23 5K+ → 4K+ down after 293 days in tier
2. 2025-10-03 6K+ → 5K+ down after 4 days in tier
3. 2025-09-29 5K+ → 6K+ up after 3 days in tier
4. 2025-09-26 6K+ → 5K+ down after 3 days in tier
5. 2025-09-23 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2025-09-22 6K+ → 5K+ down after 5 days in tier
7. 2025-09-17 5K+ → 6K+ up after 128 days in tier
8. 2025-05-12 4K+ → 5K+ up after 163 days in tier

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Publish To Apple News: 4K+ active installs, 3.8★ (25 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/publish-to-apple-news