NewsPulse – Automated News Portal CMS (PHP + RSS Auto Import)

NewsPulse is a complete news aggregation CMS built in Core PHP 8. Add your favourite RSS or Atom feeds and a cron job keeps your website filled with fresh headlines, around the clock. Every story keeps its original source name and a prominent "Read Original Article" link.

No Node.js, no framework, no build step. Upload the files, open the installer, and your news portal is live in minutes.

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WEBSITE (FRONTEND)
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• •Modern, professional design with light and dark mode
• •Animated hero slider, breaking-news ticker, trending list and category sections
• •Category icons, scroll-reveal animations and smooth hover effects
• •Mobile-first layout with a floating capsule bottom navigation
• •Article pages with source attribution, share buttons (WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, X, copy link), related stories and previous/next navigation
• •Search with highlighted results, category, source and legal pages
• •Newsletter sign-up with CSV export
• •Hindi and other Unicode URLs supported

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RSS AUTO IMPORT ENGINE
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• •Supports RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF) and Atom feeds
• •Runs by cron, or through a secure HTTP cron URL on hosts without cron
• •Per-source settings: category, fetch interval (5 min to 24 hrs), item limit, auto-publish
• •Three import modes: Excerpt only, Full content, Draft review
• •Duplicate protection by GUID, URL and title
• •One broken feed never stops the rest; failing feeds back off automatically
• •"Test Feed" button previews any feed before you save it
• •Detailed import logs and per-run statistics

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ADMIN PANEL
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• •Dashboard with live stats and charts, plus a "Run import now" button
• •Articles: search, filters, bulk actions, rich-text editor, scheduling, featured and trending flags
• •Categories with icon picker, colours and drag-to-reorder
• •Media library, advertisement manager (7 ad placements), legal pages
• •SEO settings, subscribers, database backup, admin accounts and audit log
• •Optional email notifications for failed feeds

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SEO READY
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• •Meta tags, canonical URLs, Open Graph and Twitter cards
• •JSON-LD structured data (NewsArticle, WebSite, Organization, Breadcrumbs)
• •Automatic sitemap.xml, robots.txt and RSS feed
• •Clean URLs, e.g. /news/technology/article-title

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SECURITY
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• •PDO prepared statements, CSRF tokens, XSS-safe output and an HTML sanitiser
• •Hashed passwords, login rate limiting and hardened sessions
• •SSRF and XXE protection for feed fetching
• •Validated image uploads; protected config, database and cache folders

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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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• •Full PHP source code
• •One-click web installer (SQLite or MySQL)
• •Demo content: 26 sample stories across 13 categories, removable in one click
• •Sample RSS sources to get started
• •Step-by-step deployment guide (DEPLOY.md)

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REQUIREMENTS
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• •PHP 8.1 or newer (8.2+ recommended)
• •SQLite (no setup) or MySQL / MariaDB
• •PHP extensions: curl, openssl, mbstring, fileinfo, dom, gd
• •Apache / LiteSpeed with mod_rewrite (Nginx config included)
• •Works on standard shared hosting such as cPanel or Hostinger

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LICENSE
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One license key per domain, activated from your Codinza account. Includes updates and support from Codinza.

Note: by default, imported stories show the headline, a short summary and a link to the original publisher. Use full-content import only where the feed's licence allows it.