Publish To Apple News
Enables journalistic outlets already approved by Apple News to send content directly to the app.
Solid choice
Publish To Apple News is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 4K+ sites, is rated 3.8/5 and was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 63/100 on our health check.
- Needs PHP 8.3 or newer
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Where Publish To Apple News stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| apple | #3 |
| ios | #15 |
| news | #8 |
| publish | #6 |
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Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8 from 25 reviews
About Publish To Apple News
From the official readme · v2.9.0Description
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.
Changelog
2.9.0
- Breaking Change: Drops support for PHP version 8.2. The minimum required PHP version is now 8.3.
- Bugfix: Fixes an issue with X embeds in WordPress 7+, where the Twitter embed block was renamed to the X embed block and X embeds were being converted into “generic” embeds (which link back to the original article) rather than a proper Twitter/X embed component in Apple News.
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 Video component. Props to @dphiffer for the enhancement.
- Bugfix: Fixes a conflict with the Yoast Video SEO plugin where videos that are lazy loaded weren’t being properly converted to video elements in the Apple News output (e.g., YouTube).
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.
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FAQ
Publish To Apple News: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 26, 2026
Is Publish To Apple News free?
Yes. Publish To Apple News is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Publish To Apple News safe to use in 2026?
Publish To Apple News is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 4K+ sites, is rated 3.8/5 and was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 63/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Publish To Apple News?
Publish To Apple News is active on 4K+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 794,059 times since it launched in September 2015. It was downloaded 14,798 times in the last 30 days.
Does Publish To Apple News work with WordPress 7.1?
Publish To Apple News is officially tested up to WordPress 7.0.6, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
What PHP version does Publish To Apple News need?
Publish To Apple News requires PHP 8.3 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Publish To Apple News last updated?
The latest version, 2.9.0, was released on July 29, 2026 (2 months ago).
Who makes Publish To Apple News?
Publish To Apple News is developed and maintained by Alley.
What are the best alternatives to Publish To Apple News?
The most popular alternatives to Publish To Apple News are Podcast Subscribe Buttons (4K+ installs), Smart App Banner (600+ installs) and iTunes Link Engine (100+ installs).
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