News

Your paper, published from a phone, found on Google News

A reporter at the scene wants the story up before anyone else has it; the editor wants to read it first; the reader wants it fast on a phone. Your site does all three, without plugins to update or a server to keep patched.

Made for local papers in Shimla, Dharamshala, Mandi, Kullu and across India.

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3 designs for it
53 features
from ₹24,000 a year

What it does for you

Your week, handled

A story from the scene in two minutes

Headline, photo, caption, a few paragraphs, a category: publish, or send it to the editor to read first.

Every plan

Ready for Google News and Discover

News article markup, a news sitemap and large photos in search, set up for every story you publish.

Every plan

Tips arrive on WhatsApp

A "Send a news tip" button on every story opens your WhatsApp, photos and all.

Every plan

Everything it gets

53 features, all of them

What every site has from the first plan up, then every feature in detail.

Everything it gets 53 features

Your own news website at yourpaper.staycraft.co.in, or on your own domain, in one of three designs: Classic daily, Hindi classic or Modern magazine. Switch whenever you like; changing the design never touches your stories or photos
A newsroom made for a phoneWrite, add a photo, publish or send for review, from a round "+" button.
Editor and Reporter loginsWith a review step before a reporter's story goes out.
Google News-ready pagesNews article markup, a news sitemap, large photos in search results, and RSS feeds.
Your own domainSo a paper moving from WordPress keeps its address.
Move from WordPressWith every story keeping its exact old web address.
Ad network slotsFor AdSense or similar, each in a safe frame of its own.
Video pagesFrom YouTube or Vimeo links.
A WhatsApp tip line"Send a news tip" on every story opens your WhatsApp.
Your paper's accent colourOn the site.
WeatherFor up to two towns in the top bar.
No commissionOn your ad sales. Advertisers pay you directly.
Monthly report by emailOn the 1st, last month's visits, stories published and story views against the month before, your five most re...
Social postsTurn a review, an offer or a festival into a finished picture and caption in your own colours and fonts (a pos...

Writing and publishing 7

A story from a phone. Headline, a photo from the camera or gallery with a caption, the story, a category, then Publish now or Send for review. The "Out now" screen has a big Share on WhatsApp button
Breaking Mark a story breaking for 2, 6 or 24 hours.
More options when needed: standfirst, sub-category, tags, place, photo credit, photo description; editors also set the byline, featured, sponsored, the search headline and description, and Publish at to schedule
It saves itself Every 10 seconds. With no signal, the words are kept on the phone and sent when the connection returns. If someone else changed the same story meanwhile, the writer chooses which copy to keep; nothing is overwritten silently.
Photos IPhone photos and motion photos work, every photo is turned the right way up, and the hidden camera details, including where it was taken, are removed before storing, so a photo never gives away a source's location. Up to 25 MB each.
After it is out: Update changes it at once with the same web address; Unpublish or Delete takes it off the site; Take down removes the story and its photos at once for a court order or privacy complaint, with who, when and why recorded
Sponsored stories Are labelled "Sponsored" for readers.

The newsroom team 6

Editor Everything, including publishing, ads, paper settings and people.
Reporter Writes their own stories and sees only Stories and Waiting for review. Their story goes to an editor first, unless the editor lets them publish directly.
Review and send back A story sent for review rings the bell for every editor. The editor publishes, edits, or sends it back with a note that stays pinned above the story. If the reporter changes the story while an editor has it open, publishing stops and asks for a reload, so nobody publishes words they did not read.
Invites by email Valid for 7 days. Switching a login off stops it at once and frees its place.
How many Up to 5 people on News Website, the owner included; no limit on News Pro.
Newsroom in English, Hindi or Punjabi Chosen by each person for themselves.

The dashboard 3

The day's paper at a glance Stories today, stories waiting for review, reads today against yesterday, and a Write shortcut.
Tiles For videos this week, and on News Pro for ads ending this week, live stories open and today's e-paper.
Most read For today and yesterday, and each story out today with its reads.

Sections, authors and the site 5

Sections With one level of sub-sections. Tick "On the home page" to give a section its own block. Renaming a section keeps its old address working.
Authors Are the bylines. Link one to a login so a reporter always writes as themselves.
Reader pages Home page, section pages, story pages, author and tag pages, search, most read, and RSS for the site and each section.
Paper settings The site language (English, Hindi, Pahari or Punjabi; a Punjabi paper is set in Gurmukhi on every design), a WhatsApp channel link ("Get our news on WhatsApp"), a link to an other-language edition, and the weather towns.
Three designs Classic daily (navy on white, a scrolling breaking ticker, a featured carousel and Latest, Popular and Trending), Hindi classic (oxblood on newsprint, a Devanagari masthead, for Hindi, Pahari and Punjabi papers) and Modern magazine (photo first, teal and a display serif). Demo papers show each, including one in Punjabi.

Google News and search 3

Every story carries the markup Google News reads With the paper's name and a 600 x 60 logo made from your logo.
News sitemap (the last 48 hours) and the full sitemap are sent to Google Search Console when a story goes out, at most once an hour.
Being in Google News is Google's decision The manual explains the Publisher Center step once the domain points to StayCraft.

Ads 4

Network ads (both plans). For each place on the page, paste the code your ad network gives you and switch it on. Each place keeps its size, so a story never jumps. Every ad runs in a closed frame, so a bad ad cannot act on your page or your admin. ads.txt lines are served for you
Sold ads (News Pro). Ads you sell to a local advertiser yourself: a picture with a click address, or HTML, in one place, from a first day to a last day. A sold ad runs ahead of network code in its place.
Counts you can show an advertiser (News Pro). Impressions served and clicks (one click per reader per ad in 10 minutes, newsroom staff and search engines not counted).
Monthly report (News Pro), per day and ad, for one advertiser or all, with a CSV download to send them.

E-paper, live stories and video 3

E-paper (News Pro). Upload the day's print PDF, up to 150 MB and 80 pages. Its pages appear on the site within a few minutes, readable page by page, with tap-to-zoom on a phone. An edition dated tomorrow waits for its day. PDF download for readers is off unless you switch it on.
Live stories (News Pro). An editor makes a story live; the newsroom posts updates as things happen. Readers with the story open see new, edited or deleted updates within a minute, without reloading. Editors can pin an update, approve a reporter's update first, and close the live story when it is over.
Video (both plans). Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link with a title and a few words. Each video gets its own page, and the site gets a Video page.

Moving from WordPress 6

Four steps Upload the WordPress export file (or connect with an application password), a dry run that shows what will come across, the import itself with a progress bar, and a report.
Every story keeps its exact old web address Old section, tag and author pages, feeds, AMP pages, page 2 links and old image addresses all lead to the right place.
Every image is copied From the old site and from any other.
Run it again before the switch To bring in anything published since.
The StayCraft address stays out of Google until the switch So your stories are never found on two sites at once.
Never locked in "Download everything as a WordPress file" exports every story, page, author, section, tag and photo.

On your phone 2

The newsroom is built for a phone And the admin can be added to the home screen like an app.
Pings Editors get a ping when a story or a live update is waiting for them, and a reporter when their story comes back. Turn them on under Settings, Notifications, on an Android phone, a computer, or an iPhone (Safari, added to the home screen).

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